Teacher Support Materials
How do synthetic materials impact society?
Teacher
Instructional Guide
This teacher resource includes lesson objectives, instructional strategies, and a guided outline for the successful facilitation of Research Quest in the classroom.
Student
Research Assistant Notebook
This notebook uses structured documentation as a strategy to support students as they work through their investigation. It includes guiding questions, organizers and prompts to help them record and evaluate their evidence, track their thinking, and use all of this to develop an evidence-based response to their research question: "How do synthetic materials impact society". This process helps make student critical thinking visible which helps you and your students reflect on their learning and where they can use additional support and practice.
Student
Sherd Observation Reference Guide
This is document is to support offline exploration of the embeded Observation support information that pops-up in Step 6 of the investigation.(Print optional)
Student
Sherd Form & Function Tips
This is document is to support offline exploration of the embeded Form & Function pop-up content in Step 6 of the investigation.(Print optional)
Assessment
Student Learning Assessment Tool
This document is designed to assist teachers as they monitor and record evidence of critical thinking skills in students. It includes a rubric with definitions and examples of target behaviors as well as a chart to document critical thinking skills in individual students.
Assessment
Student Rubric for Assessing Learning Outcomes
This is a tool that students can use to self-assess their competency at behaviors targeted in Research Quest investigations— gathering data, making inferences, building a hypothesis, and verbal communication.
Assessment