Title: Science Literacy and Notebooking: Writingtolearn in Science Using a Heuristic
1Science Literacy and Notebooking
Writing-to-learn in Science Using a Heuristic
- North Cascades and Olympic Science Partnership
- Summer Academy 2005
- Liesl Hohenshell
2Rationales for Writing-to-Learn Tasks
- Developing quality understanding of science
- Knowledge ? Application
- Communicating understanding
- Students take on explanatory role
- Assumption has been that students already have
procedural and conceptual knowledge to succeed - ? need support and guidance
3Rationale Inquiry National Standards
- Students should be able to describe a problem in
detail before attempting a solution, determine
what relevant information should enter the
analysis of a problem, and decide which
procedures can be used to generate descriptions
and analyses of the problem (Glaser, 1992) (NRC,
2000, p. 117).
4Research Based Science Writing Heuristic A
Non-traditional Form of Notebooking
- Positive findings at all levels
- University ? elementary students
- Decreases achievement gap between genders
- Narrowing of the achievement gap
- Improvements in language and reading scores
- Student Perceptions
- Identify socially negotiated experiences as
critical forms of support - Recognize distinct thinking required by different
types of writing tasks - Report learning as they are writing
5Pedagogy
- Learning theory Interactive-constructivist
- Private and Public forms of knowledge
- Student-centered approach
- less prescription ?
- ? Share the power ?
6Interviewed Student
Metacognitive Experiences I got to find out
what I didnt knowI think it made the experiment
easier to do because I was making up what I had
to find out instead of just answering the
questions on the sheet. You had to think about
what you already knew, so you figure out what you
had to ask yourself, so you could find out what
you wanted to know, what you needed to know.
(Ken, SWH-High Achiever)
7From Michael Klentschy, What should a science
notebook contain?
- Question/problem/purpose
- Prediction
- Planning
- Data/Observations
- Claims and evidence
- What have you learned?
- Next steps/new questions
8Science Writing Heuristic Student Template
9Questions for Discussion