Wednesday, July 24, 2013

Science Word Cards



In the spring of last year, I blogged about a science time in my class when my students would go outside and become a scientist. I called, this time,  BATES BACKYARD. With the help of my science curriculum specialist, we introduced the kids to Science Notebooks. You can see below that the notebooks are composition books bought at Staples, the paper inside is graph.  The students have plenty of space to record data, take notes and make scientific illustrations. You can click here to read a post about notebooks.




I read a few books to help me with my thinking about science in the primary class and using science notebooks. I found two great resources  Writing in Science in Action by Betsy Rupp Fulwiler and Starting With Science by Marcia Talhem Edson. 

One of the things in Writing in Science wrote about was using a writing frame or structure for students to refer to as they do their writing. I decided to make a table Science Word Cards. This way each student could have their own.

Writing Frame
I plan to let the students illustrate or
glue things in the empty boxes. For
example,  for shiny, we could glue a piece of tin foil.



4 comments:

  1. Melissa,
    Thanks for sharing these great ideas. I am Academic Coach for my school and I am trying to find ways to help our Kindergarten Teachers implement more writing into their science time. Your ideas are exactly what I am looking for. I can't wait to share them with my team.

    Thanks again!
    Ann

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  2. Ann,
    I would love to touch base during the school, to hear how it goes with the team. My students loved finding different things, sharing and recording. I think it is the perfect approach to science in the the primary classroom. You will find from students discoveries lots of directions you can take it! Thanks for your comment. Melissa

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  3. I love having my kids write across the curriculum. Thanks for sharing your ideas and freebies!!
    Connie Anderson:)
    Welcome To First Grade Room 5

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  4. Hi Melissa! I love this science post! I just found your blog and I’m your newest follower!
    ✿Sue✿
    Science for Kids Blog

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