Module: Setting Up Science Notebooks
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Grades K - 12
3 Hours 30 Minutes
Overview
This collection of activities helps students set up science notebooks for the beginning of your science lessons for the year, semester, term, or week. By learning to establish systems, organize information, and sketch like a scientist, students learn and practice processes of analysis, note-taking, and scientific inquiry.
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Decorate Your Science Notebook
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By decorating and personalizing their own science notebooks, students develop a sense of ownership over their learning, establishing routines to record observations and reflections as they learn.
Grades K - 12
1 Hour
Decorate Your Science Notebook
By decorating and personalizing their own science notebooks, students develop a sense of ownership over their learning, establishing routines to record observations and reflections as they learn.
Grades K - 12
1 Hour
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Science Notebooks Across Time
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Students peruse sample pages from the notebooks of many different scientists, including scientists their own age, high school scientists, science teachers, and field scientists dating back to 1905. They consider how scientists have used notebooks over the last several hundred years, and start to think about how they'll use their own.
Grades 3 - 12
1 Hour
Science Notebooks Across Time
Students peruse sample pages from the notebooks of many different scientists, including scientists their own age, high school scientists, science teachers, and field scientists dating back to 1905. They consider how scientists have used notebooks over the last several hundred years, and start to think about how they'll use their own.
Grades 3 - 12
1 Hour
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Draw a Scientist
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Students draw their idea of "a scientist doing science." This exercise surfaces students' prior understandings of the nature of science and the demographics of scientists, serving as a launching point for discovering that students, in fact, can be scientists.
Grades K - 12
45 Minutes
Draw a Scientist
Students draw their idea of "a scientist doing science." This exercise surfaces students' prior understandings of the nature of science and the demographics of scientists, serving as a launching point for discovering that students, in fact, can be scientists.
Grades K - 12
45 Minutes
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Organizing Your Science Notebook
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Students pop open their science notebooks and get them ready for learning by inserting a Table of Contents, numbering the pages, and completing their first reflective entry.
Grades K - 12
45 Minutes
Organizing Your Science Notebook
Students pop open their science notebooks and get them ready for learning by inserting a Table of Contents, numbering the pages, and completing their first reflective entry.
Grades K - 12
45 Minutes
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Module: Setting Up Science Notebooks
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Module: Setting Up Science Notebooks
Grades K - 12
3 Hours 30 Minutes
Overview
Quality Instructional Practices
Continue Your Journey
1
Decorate Your Science Notebook
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By decorating and personalizing their own science notebooks, students develop a sense of ownership over their learning, establishing routines to record observations and reflections as they learn.
Grades K - 12
1 Hour
Decorate Your Science Notebook
By decorating and personalizing their own science notebooks, students develop a sense of ownership over their learning, establishing routines to record observations and reflections as they learn.
Grades K - 12
1 Hour
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2
Science Notebooks Across Time
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Students peruse sample pages from the notebooks of many different scientists, including scientists their own age, high school scientists, science teachers, and field scientists dating back to 1905. They consider how scientists have used notebooks over the last several hundred years, and start to think about how they'll use their own.
Grades 3 - 12
1 Hour
Science Notebooks Across Time
Students peruse sample pages from the notebooks of many different scientists, including scientists their own age, high school scientists, science teachers, and field scientists dating back to 1905. They consider how scientists have used notebooks over the last several hundred years, and start to think about how they'll use their own.
Grades 3 - 12
1 Hour
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Draw a Scientist
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Students draw their idea of "a scientist doing science." This exercise surfaces students' prior understandings of the nature of science and the demographics of scientists, serving as a launching point for discovering that students, in fact, can be scientists.
Grades K - 12
45 Minutes
Draw a Scientist
Students draw their idea of "a scientist doing science." This exercise surfaces students' prior understandings of the nature of science and the demographics of scientists, serving as a launching point for discovering that students, in fact, can be scientists.
Grades K - 12
45 Minutes
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Organizing Your Science Notebook
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Students pop open their science notebooks and get them ready for learning by inserting a Table of Contents, numbering the pages, and completing their first reflective entry.
Grades K - 12
45 Minutes
Organizing Your Science Notebook
Students pop open their science notebooks and get them ready for learning by inserting a Table of Contents, numbering the pages, and completing their first reflective entry.
Grades K - 12
45 Minutes
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