Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Using Word and Picture Clues to Make an Inference
First graders will use text evidence to make inferences about word and word phrase meanings in a text. Word and picture clues will be used to help students form inferences.
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Prezi: Inference Lesson 8th Grade
Learn what it means to make an inference by combining the author's clues and your background knowledge.
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Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Text Analysis: Incredible Inferences [Pdf]
A lesson plan in which students play a game to cover words on a game board by making inferences. Materials are included.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: What the Heck Is That? Inferring the Purpose of an Object
For this lesson, 5th graders use their prior knowledge and inference skills to determine uses of unfamiliar objects. They participate in group discussions and analyze the key information they have in order to reach conclusions.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Reference: Conditions for Inference on a Mean
When we want to carry out inference (build a confidence interval or do a significance test) on a mean, the accuracy of our methods depends on a few conditions. Before doing the actual computations of the interval or test, it's important...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Strongly Supported Inferences Learn More
How do we recognize what is "strongly supported?" Some questions on the logical reasoning section of the LSAT ask what additional information is supported by a stimulus. These are similar to questions that ask you to identify the...
Quizlet
Quizlet: Making Inferences (Nonfiction)
Match five words and definitions about making inferences in nonfiction texts by racing against the clock in this learning game.
Curated OER
Mc Graw Hill: Part 2 Reading: Informational Text: Quote Accurately
Learn about quoting accurately and making inferences on this site. A link provides a model with text and supported inferences.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Fossil Inferences
Arrange fossil pictures in sequence from oldest to youngest.
Curated OER
Mc Graw Hill: Part 1 Reading: Literature: 5th Grade Quote Accurately
An article describing the importance of making inferences while reading a story.
Phil Tulga
Phil Tulga: Inference Riddles: Inference Riddle Game
In this game, students are asked to infer what is being described. They click on "Press to Show a Clue" revealing a line of the riddle until they have an idea of what is being described; next, they type their guess into the "Make a...
University of Georgia
University of Georgia: Scientific Thought: Facts, Hypotheses, Theories, Etc.
Provides explanations of terms used in science: fact, deductive inference, inductive inference, hypothesis, multiple working hypotheses, theory, evidence, Ockham's Razor, natural law, and paradigm.
Shippensburg University
Shippensburg University: Attribution Theory
Course notes explaining what attribution theory is and three different models of attribution theory. These include the Correspondent Inference Theory of Heider and Jones, Harold Kelley's Covariation Model, and Weiner's Model of...
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Warren County Schools: Citing Textual Evidence
Well-organized and in-depth lesson on citing textual evidence and understanding inferences. Many examples are included, as well as exercises for the students to practice what they have learned. [PDF]
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Type I and Type Ii Errors
This set contains questions regarding Type I and Type II errors, and the power of an inference test. Students differentiate between Type I and Type II errors, and their relationship to the null and alternative hypotheses.
Yale University
Yale University: Elements of the Short Story
This unit from the Yale University on elements of the short story is designed to develop student comprehension skills, particularly making inferences and generalizing. It also involves students in reading a number of short stories to...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Statistics: Sampling Distributions
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] This concept introduces the sampling distribution of the mean, inferring the population mean from samples and sampling error.
Curated OER
Mc Graw Hill: 6th Grade Use Text Evidence
Learn how to use text evidence to draw inferences; click the Model button on bottom right.
Curated OER
Mc Graw Hill: 4th Grade Use Details and Examples
When reading a story learn how to recall specific examples from the text to answer comprehension questions. In addition, you can also use story details to make inferences.
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Ccss Literacy E Handbook: Informational Text: Use Details and Examples
A short explanation of how to use explicit details in an informational text to make inferences. Click on Model at the bottom right to see a model with examples.
Read Works
Read Works: Passages: Grade 2: When Television Became Colorful
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read a non-fiction article about colored television and answer questions in comprehension, sequencing, inferences, main idea, transitions, and more.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Background for the Graphic Novel Persepolis: A Web Quest on Iran
This lesson focuses on students researching and learning about Iran's culture, society, and leadership before and after the 1979 Revolution in preparation for reading the graphic novel Persepolis. Students work in small groups to...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Rn Ai Explained
Using scientific animations and illustrated metaphors, this interactive activity from NOVA scienceNOW explains RNAi and how it works.
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Alan Turning: What Is Artificial Intelligence?
An article on expert systems can be found at this location which explains what expert systems are, lists some of the fields they're used in, the basic components of expert systems, and gives information on some real life expert systems...