Teacher Support

Instructional Guide
This teacher resource includes lesson objectives, instructional strategies, and a guided outline for the successful facilitation of this Research Quest in the classroom.
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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: "What Happened at Cleveland-Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry?". 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.

"What Happened at Cleveland-Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry?" Reference Material
This is a student resource that is also embedded as content on the page "Carrie's Field Notes" of this Research Quest. It provides information about bone beds, skeletal data, animal interactions, natural disasters, and field notes from Cleveland-Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry. This information will help students form hypotheses about the question "What happened at Cleveland-Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry?"
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Cleveland-Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry Map

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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.

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.

Student Rubric for Presenting Arguments
This rubric is designed to guide students as they prepare to present their hypotheses to the class. The document also includes a chart for students to evaluate the presentations of their peers.