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Children love seeing their work and photos of themselves at work. Make this an opportunity for an early literacy experience by creating a book about a...
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One way to help students develop their writing skills is through the “key-word process.” In this method, students select key words about a topic a...
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The communication skills of reading and writing go hand in hand with science as natural partners for fostering students’ understandings of the world...
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Creative Writing and the Water Cycle
Creative writing provides one strategy for helping students combine their powers of imagination with their arsenal of knowledge. Teachers also can use...
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Tired of building a paper mâché volcano to teach about plate tectonics? Do you want to connect science and writing? Then the volcano résumé projec...
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That a relatively small piece of writing such as Albert Einstein's three-page paper of relativity could be so important certainly illustrates the sign...
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Integrated science journals provide educators with valuable insight into teaching. They allow students to reflect on how engaged they were in learning...
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Science Interactive Notebooks in the Classroom
Writing is one of the ways in which children learn in science. When students make observations and explain them in writing, they clarify and organize ...
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Using Science Journals to Encourage All Students to Write
It seems that everyone is using science journals or notebooks lately. As middle school science teachers, the authors use science journals as a tool to...
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Learning Logs: Writing to Learn, Reading to Assess
Just what do children get out of inquiry? Good inquiry activities help students hone their inquiry abilities and teach them about the nature of scienc...
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Using Web Logs in the Science Classroom
As educators we must ask ourselves if we are meeting the needs of today’s students. The science world is adapting to our ever-changing society; are ...
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Interactive Reflective Logs: Opening Science Notebooks to Peer and Teacher Feedback
Ho do we as educators ensure that all students are given the opportunity to respond or engage students who are embarrassed to speak in front of others...
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Students are using the tools of scientists when keeping a science notebook. To bring students’ existing ideas out for examination, the author implem...
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Science journals are wonderful tools. They offer a glimpse into children’s science understandings, and they are both diagnostic and pedagogically in...
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The P.O.E.T.R.Y. of Science: a Flexible Tool for Assessing Elementary Student Science Journals
Writing about inquiry-based science experiences can provide students with opportunities to communicate their questions, observations, and reflections ...