Won’t You Be My Sea Urchin Student Answers Criteria Student 1 Score Student 2 Student 3 Score Student 4 Score Claim: Just look at the graph. The difference is The corals The with sea Statement that more corals are grew with urchins are affected answers the growing on tiles and without more than the tiles scientific with sea urchins sea urchins. without the sea urchins question. than tiles without (less corals). sea urchins. Evidence: Theres more corals My evidence is More corals The corals with sea Scientific data with sea urchins. tiles with sea grew with urchins had 13.75 and that supports urchins have 2 ½ sea urchins the tiles without sea the claim. more corals 13 and 5 urchins had 5.25. growing on them without sea than without sea urchins. urchins. Reasoning: a. changes color. The data supports Corals are It supports our claim why evidence it by having the helped by sea because it shows sea supports the tiles with sea urchins. urchins help corals claim and b. urchins have more grow. what the corals than the underlying tiles without sea science urchins. They are concept(s) does used to it. it link to.
Won’t You Be My Sea Urchin Student Answers Criteria Student 1 Score Student 2 Student 3 Score Student 4 Score Claim: Statement that answers the scientific question. Just look at the graph. The difference is more corals are growing on tiles with sea urchins than tiles without sea urchins. The corals grew with and without sea urchins. The with sea urchins are affected more than the tiles without the sea urchins (less corals). Evidence: Scientific data that supports the claim. Theres more corals with sea urchins. My evidence is tiles with sea urchins have 2 ½ more corals growing on them than without sea urchins. More corals grew with sea urchins 13 and 5 without sea urchins. The corals with sea urchins had 13.75 and the tiles without sea urchins had 5.25. Reasoning: a. why evidence supports the claim and b. what the underlying science concept(s) does it link to. changes color. The data supports it by having the tiles with sea urchins have more corals than the tiles without sea urchins. They are used to it. Corals are helped by sea urchins. It supports our claim because it shows sea urchins help corals grow.
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