Science journals!!

Students are doing a scientific drawing of a plant. It is a pre-assessment of their learning. It helps me to see what they already know about plants. Students are to draw, color, and label all the parts of their plant. We leave the following page blank. At the end of the unit, they make another scientific drawing of a plant. Then we compare their pre and post drawings. Students are always so excited to see how much more detailed their post-drawings are...it is very clear to them how much they have learned!

Alex is adding labels to his scientific drawing of a plant.

David and Gavin are also adding labels to their scientific drawings.

         Nailani is adding color to her scientific drawing. All scientific drawings have to follow the ABCD expectation...that is they have to be Accurate, Big, Colorful, and Detailed with labels.

Bella, Madi, and Isaac are making scientific drawings about the actual plants they are growing. Since we don't have cameras to take pictures and record the plants' growth, we have to record it with a drawing.

Tony, Lisa, and Adley are working hard to do the best scientific drawing of their plants that they can.

Nailani, Mia, Josiah, and Uriah are in various stages of creating their scientific drawing of their plants.