Use these sentence starters to help describe patterns, make predictions, find comparisons, share discoveries, formulate hypotheses, and ask questions.

Patterns:

  • I noticed a pattern when I looked at the data. The pattern is

  • I see a pattern in the data collected so far. My graph shows

Predictions:

  • Based on the patterns I see in the data collected so far, I predict that

  • My prediction for is

Comparisons:

  • When I compared and , I noticed that

  • The similarities I see between and are

  • The differences I see between and are

Surprises and Discoveries:

  • I discovered that

  • I was surprised by

  • I noticed something unusual about

Hypotheses:

  • A possible explanation for what the data showed is

  • A factor that affected this data might have been

  • I think this data was affected by

Questions:

  • I wonder why

  • I wonder how

  • How are affected by

  • How will change if

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