The Crocodile Dentist!

The Claim Evidence Reasoning (CER) Explanation Framework:

What is your claim (explanation) about how the crocodile work?

When you open up the crocodiles mouth, some time of mechanism moves in the interior of
the mouth holding a tooth more win place. When the tooth is pushed down the lever is then
released.

What evidence supports your claim?

Testing the crocodile 100 times gave us experience with how the mouth works, although we
did not find a pattern so the lever or piece holding the teeth then was inconsistent. We
could tell that something was holing a tooth in place because that tooth was tight in
comparison to other teeth when lightly touched. There was a clicking sound when the mouth
opened making us to believe when opening up the mouth something moved it a circle and
was cranked in some way.
Whats your reasoning that explains your claim and relates your claim to scientific
principles?
Because of the opening of the mouth and hearing a cranking sounded something was turning
in the inside of the mouth.We could kind of feel the teeths tension making us believe one
was being held in place.

Reflection: Is the crocodile dentistry activity an inquiry investigation? Explain

your answer. What process skills are used in this activity? If you identify more than
one process skill, how do the ones you identify support each other?
The Crocodile Dentistry was an inquiry experiment. We set a question that needed
to be solved, how does the crocodile mouth work?. We were given the task of
testing the mouth 100 times and examine the data to determine if it would help us
in solving how the mouth works. We attempted other testing such as lightly
touching the teeth to feel the tension on them, or taking the top of the mouth off
to see if that would show us anything more, trying to look at any parts on the
inside of the crocodile. After much observation and testing we conclude a possible
claim of how the mouth worked. This claim was mostly decided because of the
tension on the teeth and the sound of the cranking. We did not fully conclude that
it was two ended dial that kept the pressure on one and some times two teeth, but
it was mentioned during our discussion of what our claim is going to be.

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