November+9+Questions

1. Do any of you have primary ideas of how to incorporate inquiry?
//All modules should have an inquiry lesson. To help you get started or to just lend a helping hand your science specialist or Amy Shelton, or Janice Johnson would be glad to help you with inquiry and science note-booking. Join us at February Conference for two hours of exciting inquiry and the strategies needed to get started with any module you have.- Janice//

I like to have students think about the materials we are using as we are going through their module. At the end of each module, we have students perform their own inquiry investigation using any of the materials available in the kit.

2. Any ideas to help motivate the struggling student, emergent writers, or reluctant recorders
//A. Do a gallery walk of the science notebooks so the students will be able to get ideas from other students. Have each student tab his/her best work to show in the gallery walk. Give them time to improve their entry before the gallery walk.// //B. Create a rubric for the quality of work you expect from all students.// //C. Use pre-made charts/graphs for those emergent writers to help them get started.// //D. Use sentence starters to help those reluctant writers get started such as I noticed that when it .... this caused .....to occur.

Allow students to collaborate on their science notebooks, so higher level students can bring out the best in lower level students.//