Ice Drilling Program

School of Snow and Ice

Scientific Notebooks

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www.icedrill-education.org

Student Science and Math Notebooks

Math Practices

“At the end of each math practice routine, students are provided with quiet writing time to reflect before sharing their learning with a classmate.”

Student Science and Math Notebooks

Science and Engineering Practice

“Students should write accounts of their work, using journals to record observations, thoughts, ideas, and models. They should be encouraged to create diagrams and to represent data and observations with plots and tables, as well as with written text, in these journals.”

Student Science and Math Notebooks

The contents of a student notebook can provide a window into how your students think…

Table of Contents

(Save the first few pages for the Table of Contents)

Left Side

Presentation Notes

Title

Right Side

Classroom Ideas/Creative Side

Your ideas, reflections, classroom/curriculum ideas.

Blast Off Lars

3/4/2022

Blast Off-Payload Challenge

Student Science and Math Notebooks

The contents of a student notebook can provide a window into how your students think…

The outside of a student notebook can provide a window into who your students are…

The outside of a student notebook can provide a window to who your students are…

• Write your first name on a notecard so it is visible from 10 feet.
• Trim around your name.
• Draw something important to you on a colored sheet of paper. (Smaller than the cover of your notebook.)
• Cut out the colored shape. Tape the shape onto your notebook cover.
• Tape your name card onto the front of the notebook.
• Write your favorite quote on the front of your notebook.

10 Minutes!!!

Synergistic Notebook Backs

Synergy…

• Create a large image that will cover the back of your groups notebooks.
• Image should be related to our changing climate .
• Cut the image up and tape part onto each partners notebook. The image should only appear complete when the notebooks from your team are brought together to reveal the synergy.

“When the whole is greater than the sum of the parts.”

10 Minutes

Ice Drilling Program

School of Snow and Ice

Scientific Notebooks

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www.icedrill-education.org

Old slides from previous presentations after this…

Break…

Science Notebooks

Inside cover…

Rocket Challenge-Blast Off!

1. Build a rocket system

2. Adjust variables until the rocket reaches

“outer space” (One meter)

Science Notebooks

Back cover…

Back pages…

Blast Off

Rockets

(Part-II)

Rocket Challenge-Part II

Payload Challenge

Student Notebooks

Student Science Notebooks

Optional: Add your favorite quote to the front of your notebook.

Synergistic Notebook Covers

Don’t let me be the boss of your creativity…

Synergy…

Use the backs of your notebooks to create a synergistic shape that only becomes recognizable when all three to five notebooks come together.

When the whole is greater than the sum of the parts.

10 Minutes

Quick Introductions…

• Name
• Topic(s) taught
• Number of years teaching
• What’s on your cover?