Claim Evidence Reasoning Cards

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Claim Evidence Reasoning Cards: A single A4 page with dotted cut lines forming nine rectangular cards in three columns. Top row: 'CLAIM' (blue speech icon), 'EVIDENCE' (green clipboard icon), 'REASONING' (purple lightbulb icon) each with a one-line definition and a 'Sentence starter' line. Middle row: 'QUESTION' (blue question icon), 'DATA' (green bar-chart icon), 'LINK' (purple link icon) with short prompts and sentence starters. Bottom row: 'EXAMPLE' (magnifier), 'LIMITATION' (warning triangl...

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This printable contains a 3x3 grid of cards (Claim, Evidence, Reasoning plus Question, Data, Link, Example, Limitation, Improve) with short definitions, icons and ready-made sentence starters. It is designed to scaffold students when planning or writing scientific explanations and to support group discussion or peer feedback during investigations.

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