Science notebooking can create a seamless connection between science and literacy. Notebooks allow students to record their interactions with scientific phenomena through observations, experiences, and thinking, which are integral parts of the scientific process. Writing in notebooks requires students to clarify their own understanding and identify gaps in their knowledge. Notebooks have benefits for student learning as they provide a personal record that can be used for self-assessment, differentiate instruction, and link new information to prior knowledge. Sample activities that can be included in notebooks are diagrams, charts, summaries, and lab reports. Rubrics can also be used to assess science notebooks.

1. Science notebookingEssential Question:How can we as create a seamless line between science and Literacy?Presented by Tara V Dowdell

2. Connecting Literacy and Science Literacyis typically described as theability to read and write.Literacy is the "ability toidentify, understand,interpret, create,communicate, computeand use printed andwritten materialsassociated with varyingcontexts.Scienceis an outlandishly largebody of knowledge. It’sdomain is the naturalworld-the things in it,the principles thatgovern their behaviors,and the conceptualconnective tissues thatmakes it allcomprehensible.

3. Transforming Knowledge and Learning“The act of writing by its very nature may enhance thinking. Writing may achieve this by demanding the learner to organize knowledge.”“Students’ Science Notebooks and the Inquiry Process “Klentschy and Molina-De la Torre, 2004

4. Purpose of science notebookingThe scientist’s notebook is a detailed record of interactions with scientific phenomena.

5. It is a personal representation of experiences, observations, and thinking, which are integral parts of scientific processing.Writing requires students to clarify what they know and expose what they don’t know.ActiveReasoningAnalyzingCommunicating Effective ThinkingOrganizingRemembering

6. The History of the Science NotebookThe Vitruvian Man, Leonardo's study of the proportions of the human body. 1485LeodardodaVinci Studies of Embryos 1510Linus Pauling's Science notebooksWorks of Charles Darwin 1837

7. Science notebooking

8. Inquiry-Based Learning and Science notebooking Inquiry-Based LearningUnifying TopicsEssential QuestionsExplore/Apply/Reflect Data drivenClaims and EvidenceMeaning Connections to real lifePredictions/ConclusionStudent drivenDependent to independent learning Science notebookingCognitive engagementRecord of organized dataSelf-assessment toolInformal assessmentDifferentiate instructionFocal point for discussionLink new information and prior knowledgeOrganizing and restructuring knowledgePersonal record/ownership

9. Interactive Science NotebookInputThe Box and T-chartVenn DiagramsConcept MapsDefinitionsKWLStudent notesOutputFoldablesSummariesSketchesLabeled Diagrams PosterReportClick to here view samples of student work.

10. Sample science notebook rubric

11. Thinking about science notebooking……….,1. What are some of the benefits that you saw in using science notebooking?2. How can science notebooking be a beneficial tool to students of today?3. What are some of the skill sets that can be learned from science notebooking?Share with the group…