Do you use a class journal?
After reading Betsy Fulweiler's book this summer, I was once again motivated to model, model, model how to write scientific thinking. She suggests using a class journal as either a class chart or in a notebook on the document camera. Why is this so important?
The newest Science Notebooking folio that was just released days ago from FOSS talks about using a class notebook to showcase:
how to organize your notebookhow to set up a page - with focus question, data section, making sense of your data and reflection/conclusionhow to use a new strategy - like a T chart, a graph, a sentence frame or a diagramthey should NOT be used to copy directly what the teacher thinks - that is the same as the old fashioned teacher directed notes on a chalkboardA teaching tip they include on the side state:
Use of the class notebook should be thoughtfully timed. Doing a class-notebook entry at the end of an activity is helpful to teach the components of a notebook, yet allows you to see what students do…
The newest Science Notebooking folio that was just released days ago from FOSS talks about using a class notebook to showcase:
how to organize your notebookhow to set up a page - with focus question, data section, making sense of your data and reflection/conclusionhow to use a new strategy - like a T chart, a graph, a sentence frame or a diagramthey should NOT be used to copy directly what the teacher thinks - that is the same as the old fashioned teacher directed notes on a chalkboardA teaching tip they include on the side state:
Use of the class notebook should be thoughtfully timed. Doing a class-notebook entry at the end of an activity is helpful to teach the components of a notebook, yet allows you to see what students do…