Science Notebooki

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Writing About Inquiry

Why should my students use science notebooks?

Evidence of learning

Provide meaningful application

Opportunity to organize

Provide opportunity for peer assessment & sharingProvide opportunity for self-

assessment

Science NotebookingYearlong Guiding

Questioning What are science notebooks? What are signs of student

progress? How will notebooks

strengthen my science curriculum?

What are science notebooks?

Think Pair - Share

Is it for all to see?

Who is the audience?

Historical Perspective

Notebooks considered a rough draft.

A student tool for increasing learning.

A record of observations and data kept in chronological order.

A silent companion

Lewis &

Clark

Codex Arundel

This manuscript is on paper bound in morocco leather, containing 238 pages of various sizes that had been cut and removed from other manuscripts. The collection deals with a variety of different subjects including studies in geometry, weights and architecture. Most of the pages can be dated to between 1480 and 1518.

Leonardo de Vinci

Codex 'On the Flight of Birds'

This collection includes 17 pages (measuring 21 x 15 cm) out of the original 18. It deals primarily with the flight of birds, which Leonardo analyzed with a very rigorous approach, paying particular attention to the mechanics of flight, as well as to air resistance, winds and currents. The pages can be dated to approximately 1505.

Franklin invented a 24-hour, three-wheel clock that was much simpler than most clock designs of the time. Franklin's clock, like others from that period, only had one hand. Minute hands were not added to clocks until later. Franklin biographer Carl Van Doren describes this invention as "a curious clock, economical but not quite practical." In 1758, Franklin's friend, James Ferguson, improved the clock, much to Franklin's pleasure.

Benjamin Franklin’s

Three wheel Clock

Thomas Edison

Getting Started

Making observation

Making technical Drawings

Scientific illustrations

Lets Look at Critters

Recording and Organizing

Notes & listTechnical drawingsDiagrams w/ labelsChartsTablesGraphsWritten observations

When would you want all students to

collect data in the same manner?

Data Collecting

Does all data have to be organized the same by all the students?

Compare it to another pairs data?How is your data organized?

Students

Could another person pick up your notebook and understand what you did?

What does your notebook contain?

Does it contain a variety of data?Is this the kind of work you would want to see from your students?

Purpose

Implementation

Planning

Assessment

Development

Role of the

Teacher

Where do we go from here?