Getting little learners excited about science can be easily done with engaging experiments and thematic units. Teaching them to collect and organize data like scientists can be accomplished with a Science Notebook.
Whether you are homeschooling or in the classroom it is always a little bit painful throwing away your kids’ hard work. You spend the time planning, prepping, completing and grading the work that emphasizes the science skills your learners are working on ONLY the throw it in the trash…I don’t think so!
When your learners glue their work into their Science Notebook throughout the year, they are able to take it home at the end of the year as a resource and emblem of their hard work and all they have learned. They have a book that is not only full of scientific content, but a reminder of all that they have learned during the year.
2) A Science Notebook Saves Paper
You may be thinking that a year’s worth of experiments would create a lot of paper, but the great thing about a science notebook is that you are able to use HALF of the paper you normally would.
Rather than copying full pages all year long, our Science Notebook includes half pages that are glued (and easily fit) in their composition notebook
3) Learners Are Held Accountable
Learners are in charge of keeping up with their own Science Notebook and are given the materials needed to do so. With the table of contents and bookmarks my learners are able to organize their work.
At the beginning of the year we learn about scientists and how an important part of their job is staying organized and collecting information and data. Learners will know and be able to practice this science skill all year!
Science Safety Rules FREEBIE
Along with our Science Notebook, we use a variety of posters to teach science skills. One poster we use and review every time we complete an experiment together is our Science Safety Rules. You can grab this free for your own learners by clicking the image below.
If you think that using a Science Notebook would help you and your learners effective study science in your classroom you check out the complete notebook {here}. With resources from life science to matter, spiders to pumpkins you are able to teach the majority, if not all, of your science standards using this ONE resource!
Hi!! I recently bought your science notebook because our school does not have a recent science curriculum (1985 Yikes!) I was hoping to use this but I was wondering if the notebook went with a book or something that explained what each page or experienment did. What I mean is there a teachers manual side of the notebook? Like the lets make apples page, it doesn’t really explain what to do.
If you could help that would be great!
I left this open-ended so that teachers could create different recipes. Some teachers enjoy creating applesauce, but we always made cinnamon sugar apples. We simpll (1) cut the apples, (2) added the ingredients (butter, cinnamon, sugar and apple slices) and (3) cooked in an electric skillet. The heat made the ingredients blend together, melt and softened the apples. I do not have a teachers manual but do hope to have a completed notebook available soon that will help answer some questions!
I bought the science notebook and I love the format and the style of the pages, but as a homeschool parent, it would be handy to have a little more direction in completing the pages, since I’m not using a school’s curriculum for science. Did you ever complete a notebook so that completed sample pages are available for your customers to view?
I currently do not but hope to have some more sample pages completed in the future!