How this activity works

This week's classwork is turning last week's observations into a complete lab report.

On the next slide, you will see a left pane called My Observations from Last Week with tabs for your Day 2, Day 3, and Day 4 observation forms, and a right pane called My Lab Report where you fill out the lab report body.

The body has 3 sections:

  • Section 1 — Day 2 (Tuesday) of last week
  • Section 2 — Day 3 (Wednesday)
  • Section 3 — Day 4 (Thursday)

Submit and reopen: every form on this page except the exit ticket can be submitted whenever you have something worth showing me. Submitting lets me see your work in the responses sheet. Once you submit, the confirmation screen shows an Edit your response link — click it to reopen the same form and keep working. Submit again when you make it stronger; I see the newer version.

Catch up: to look back at what the models sent your station last week, open MuggsOfPrompts and sign in as your station.

The final slide is where you access today's exit ticket.

Classwork you can keep working on outside of class.

EXIT TICKET TODAY.

EXIT TICKETS ARE ONLY AVAILABLE IN THE LAST 20 MINUTES OF CLASS AND CAN ONLY BE COMPLETED THE DAY THEY WERE ASSIGNED.

My Observations from Last Week
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Work this form one item at a time with the class. Submit before moving on.

My Lab Report
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Lab 1 Close-out, Day 1 — Wednesday, September 9 · How to tell which one is better, and how to say why.

Lab Report 1 — rubric

Six rows, zero to four each, twenty four points. This is what a 4 asks for.

  1. The record. Four days submitted, each pointing at the right run, with station data present. Response text is pulled from the server and is not the student's responsibility.
    All four days submitted. Station and run number correct on all four, so all four resolve to real runs.
  2. Description without judgment. Day 1. Statements another reader could check against the response.
    Length, structure, specificity, and hedge counts all present with examples. No ranking language anywhere in Day 1.
  3. Verification. Day 2. Every correctness claim carries the source it was checked against.
    All three questions carry a named source and the answer found there. Counts are raw and match the responses recorded.
  4. Consistency and stability. Days 3 and 4 together. The same criterion applied the same way, and the ranking tested against it.
    All four criteria applied to all three panes with the deciding sentence quoted. Day 4 recopies Wednesday's ranking, reports both new runs, and states plainly whether it held.
  5. Setup. Introduction. A reader who was not here can follow the lab.
    Names the question, the three models and how they differ, what was held, and what changed each day. Includes a prediction made before the lab.
  6. Argument. Reflection and conclusion. A claim, the evidence under it, and an honest limit.
    Claim stated. A specific day and specific numbers cited to support it. One thing named that the lab cannot show, with the evidence that would be needed. The change in the meaning of better is traced across the four days.

A negative result scores full marks.

A student whose ranking collapsed on Day 4 and who says so plainly earns a 4 on rows 4 and 6. Students will assume the opposite. Say this out loud on Wednesday, before they start writing, or half of them will quietly fabricate stability.