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Andrea Batie
Grant Category
Grant Cycle
Fall
Description
To provide students with notebooks to tie writing and science together.
To help students make use of notetaking strategies
To teach the importance of taking and using organized, systematic notes
Success of Program
We will be looking for: neatness, completeness, organization of all notes
We will give feedback in notebooks to students for improvement
We will allow use of notebooks for quizzes and tests
Notebooks will allow students a resource for reference
Implementation
In the classroom setting, use of notebooks to display knowledge
In the classroom, to refer to information on lab worksheets and quizzes
In the field to show data gathered
In the field to gather informaiton for later use inside the classroom
Can you share this grant with your grade level or subject team?
Since fifth grade teachers at GES are "Trading" students each trimester, notebooks allow us to work as a team to meet our goals in science this year. The discussion around use and implemention of notebooks as well as their overall value, has provided us with rich and worthwhile discourse. We believe that students will benefit from the skills learned using the notebooks and will benefit from the notetaking process.
Other funding sources
No
Notes
Students will enhance their scientific skills, by using and referring to information written and drawn inside individual notebooks. It is stressed to students that this is what scientists do with their own notebooks in a real life setting whether in the lab or in the field.