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Closing the Achievement Gap: Science Notebook Writing

This comprehensive guide explores the significance of teaching science through inquiry and effective notebook writing. It provides educators with essential components, teaching tips, and assessment strategies to engage students in meaningful learning experiences. By emphasizing critical thinking and vocabulary development, the guide fosters a better understanding of science concepts while bridging gaps in ELA and math. Learn how to implement best practices, utilize feedback, and create structured activities that enhance student learning in science and beyond.

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Closing the Achievement Gap: Science Notebook Writing

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  1. Closing the Achievement Gap:Science Notebook Writing Lorraine S. Theroux

  2. Table of Contents • Intro: Why teach science? • The Key Components • Workshop • Inquiry Science • Vocabulary Development • Notebook – reasoning, components, PD • Assessment and feedback • Teaching Tips – How to start • Looking at Student Science Notebooks • Adult Science Notebooks – from the workplace

  3. Intro • Closing the gap in ELA and math • Brain Research on Learning • The El Centro and Fresno experience • Why Science? • Develops Critical Thinking Skills

  4. Science – Key Components • Workshop: A Best Practice • Guided Inquiry with Quality Kits • Conceptual Understand Emphasized and Memorization De-emphasized • Notebooks – Not Worksheets • Feedback – Immediate and meaningful • Compliance with Learning Standards

  5. Inquiry • Guided inquiry, with structured activities • Opening up inquiry; Asking ‘what if’; Asking ‘what would you change’ • 5Es: Engagement, Exploration, Explanation, Elaboration, Evaluation

  6. Notebook • Value & Goals • communicates conceptual understandings • teaches features of text and informational books • improves test-taking skills • structures conversations between learner and teacher • Use is developmental (for teacher and learner) • Expectations are specific and explicit • First-draft writing so spelling and mechanics can be approximate

  7. Notebook - Its Structure • Notebook as a whole • Cover, page numbering, glossary, table of contents • Consider student-assembled options (stapled or 3-ring) - it’s ‘fixable’ • Each entry – these are the ‘bones’ • Date • “The Question” – serves as the title • Drawing, & labels – bridge between conceptual knowledge and language • “The Answer” (must be connected to all the other parts) • Develop Drawings and Labels into Observations • details, data, tables and charts, explanations • More Components • May be introduced once the ‘bones’ are mastered

  8. Drawings • Provide insight into student thinking • Gets around poor writing skills • Very different from artistic drawings • Emphasis is to show observed parts and changes • animal body parts are correct in number and location • All significant features must be labeled • Any observed change is evident • May do a ‘before’ and ‘after’ set of drawings

  9. Sharing Work • Important Part of Workshop • Pair Share • Notebook Walk • Line of Learning

  10. Assessment and Feedback • Four-point rubric • (1, 2, 3, 4) – simple, universal criteria for each, • Level 3 = meets expectations • student completes all requirements of work • mostly correct • Stamp grades onto notebook pages • 3 stamps = L3

  11. Vocabulary • Glossary • student should add personal definitions as they add words

  12. Learning Text Features • Table of Contents • Page numbering • Captions • Graphics: • Tables and Charts • Graphs • Photos and drawings • Plan view, side view, cut-away

  13. Standards • Local, State, and National • Local Assessment • High-Stakes Assessments

  14. Teaching Tips • IF science, inquiry, and science notebooks are all new to you (or to the students): • Routinely have students use notebooks, only require date and title and labeled drawings.

  15. Looking at Student Notebooks

  16. Adult Science Notebooks • From the workplace • Crossing out errors • No blank sheets • Dates and page numbering • Work from ONE person

  17. References • Books • Online references • Further resources

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