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In this book, you are going to engage in a series of investigations that are designed to reveal the nature of the Solar System and the objects it contains.  Each of these investigations poses a question to be answered by a small group.  At the end of each investigation, you should reach an evidence-based conclusion in answer to the question.  In our course at Penn State, we recommend and model the “claim, evidence, and reasoning” (CER) framework (McNeill & Krajcik 2012) for constructing responses to the investigation questions.  We also recommend that students keep all of their work on these investigations in a science notebook.  At Penn State, students previously used the Evernote software (evernote.com) to keep their science notebook, as it allowed them to electronically share their notebooks with their group members and the instructors. In more recent offerings, we have shifted to using Microsoft OneNote, as it has similar features, but it required less support from the instructors.

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