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Investigation Prompts

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Get your class started with experimentation and investigation by providing sentence starters. This chart is made up of three columns. The first column lists steps of the scientific process and the second provides sentence starters for each of these steps.

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lab reports

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sentence starters, lab report, invesitgation, experimentation, college and career readiness

Instructional Ideas

  • Pupils can use the examples in the final columns as a model as they formulate their own scientific statements

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  • A quick-reference page that individuals can keep in their binders all year long

Cons

  • Only provides one sentence starter per section; the examples are more extensive than the sentence frames

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