Seeds of Science/Roots of Reading
Investigation Notebooks
Each Seeds of Science/Roots of Reading unit includes a student Investigation Notebook. These notebooks provide students with a place to keep track of their data and their sensemaking in a way that is authentic to scientists’ practice of keeping lab notebooks.
Research shows that such notebooks are key to promoting, scaffolding, and sharpening students’ inquiry practices.
Among the notebooks’ many features:
- Investigation pages guide students through many of their firsthand experiences, with space for recording observations and data. They return to and update many of these pages as they progress through their investigations.
- Getting Ready to Read and Reading Reflections provide optional support for students’ independent reading. These are especially important as scaffolds for English Language Learners.
- Daily Written Reflections provide optional reflective writing prompts that focus on the unit’s key concepts. Research suggests that the practice of using student notebooks for reflection promotes student understanding of science.
You can make your own copies of the student Investigation Notebooks for each student from the copymaster booklet supplied in the kit, or you can order printed consumable notebooks.
