Science Rocks!

Well, we have begun a new year of science labs.  For the first lab, students honed in their scientific observational skills by recording observations of a small rock.  After adding more observations after class discussions (such as diagrams, measuring the rock in mm, and doing a scaled drawing of it), students then turned their rock in and had to find it among the other 25 rocks.

Another class discussion took place on how science lab books are often used, leading us to understand that other people often use lab books of other scientists (think of Da Vinci's notebooks).  We added more observations, such as measurements in grams (to the hundredth of a gram) using a digital scale, and then the rocks were collected once again.  Finally, students switched notebooks and had to use the other student's observations to find the other child's rock.  This class did it very quickly.  We are off to a great year!