Teaching and Learning

Interactive science notebooks allow students to record and analyse observations, reflect on their learning, and self-assess their work. They demonstrate to teacher (and parents) the student’s developing organizational capacities and foster

• improved critical thinking skills
• abilities in sense making, expressing understanding creatively and using writing as a process for discovery and synthesis of inquiry
• improvement in understanding and literacy skills
• skills in modelling functions of scientists: to think like a scientist, record like a scientist and reflect like a scientist
• the ability to organise ideas and information, and to provide study reference
• understanding of science concepts and the ability to express thoughts and feelings in a variety of ways
• the science skills acquired in prior years