Science Journal Summary List


General

What did you do in class today?

What did you learn?

What did you find interesting?

What questions to you have about what you learned?

What were the main ideas?

What did you understand best?

What questions do you still have about this information?

How will you find more information?

How does this idea relate to what you have alreadylearned in class?


Experiments/Labs (1-19)

1. Tell how you would improve the experiment. What part would you change and how would you change it to make it better, more interesting or fun?

2. Tell what you liked or disliked about the experiment and why.

3. Explain why you think the results of the lab turned out the way they did.

4. Relate this lab to something else. Tell how it could be used or applied in another area outside of class. What connection does it have to real life?

5. Tell what surprised you about the lab and explain why.

6. Give a spin-off experiment you would like to try. How could the experiment you did today be done differently?

7. Pretend you are a piece of equipment in the lab today. From the equipment's point of view, describe how it would look or feel during the experiment or activity today.

8. Which safety caution was most important in this lab and why?

9. What was the main concept or idea of the lab?

10. What is one question you would like to ask about this lab?

11. If you were going to do this same lab again, what would be something you could do to improve the accuracy of your results?

12. What is the most surprising data you collected and why?

13. What lab question is missing that should have been asked?

14. Draw a sketch that shows you understand one of the main ideas lab.

15. Make a logo or graphic that would go with this lab.

16. Share some data from your experiment and explain what the data shows

17. Tell specifically what you personally did to help your group do the lab. What was your job or responsibilities? What part did you help the group do?

18. Who was the MVP (Most Valuable Person) for your group in doing this lab? Explain what that person did to make the lab go well and why you picked them. ( you may choose yourself)

19. Rate you own lab group on their cooperation and teamwork for this lab. Explain how you came up with your rating.


Videos (20-29)

20. What was the most interesting part of the video? What will you not forget?

21. If you could change the video, how would you change it?

22. What was something that was well done in the video?

23. How does something in the video apply to your everyday personal life?

24. Which person in the video do you most identify with and why?

25. What was one of the main ideas the video was trying to get across?

26. How do you rate the video we watched today? Do you give it a thumbs up or a thumbs down? Explain why you rated the video as you did.

27. What is one question you would like to ask someone in the video? Tell which person you would be asking your question to.

28. What was something in the video that was not clearly explained?

29. Draw a sketch that shows you understand one of the main ideas video.


General 30-49

30. Reflect in anyway you want. (words, pictures, anything goes)

31. Tell how you would improve the lesson. What part would you change and how would you change it to make it better?

32. Tell what you liked or disliked about the lesson and why.

33. Relate what we are doing to something else or tell how it could be used or applied in another area outside of class.

34. If you were the teacher, what question would you ask your students about today's lesson to see if they understood?

35. Ask me a question about what we did or studied today.

36. What was the hardest part of the lesson to understand?

37. What did you learn from the lesson today?

38. How does what we studied apply to your everyday life?

39. What was the main point or idea of today's class?

40. How could this lesson be important to you?

41. Describe what was new, and what was more review for you.

42. How does what we did today mesh with the other things you have learned in this class?

43. How is what we did today connected to another subject in school? Share how it fits with the other subject.

44. What was confusing about today's work? Do you feel uncertain about any aspects of today's class? What part do you think most students did not understand?

45. Explain one of the main ideas or things you learned to a 3rd grader. Remember to use vocabulary they would understand.

46. Give a definition of one of the important vocabulary words used in the video, lab, or lesson and use it correctly in a sentence.

47. If you were the teacher, what would you do differently?

48. What is a past experience you had that relates to today's lesson?

49. What other ways can you think of to reflect that are not on this list? Create you own original reflection question.


Fun 50-65

50. What song or music would be appropriate for this lab or lesson and why? Be sure to explain why the song you choose fits. How do the lyrics or music go with what we did today?

51. What television star, movie star, sports star, or music star would you like to have join you for this experiment, lesson, or activity and why?

52. What person, that you know personally, would be fun to have join you today? Explain why you picked that person.

52. What food or drink could be added to today's lesson that would tie into the concept being studied? Explain your connection.

54. What would be a fun or creative picture to take of people doing this lab, activity, lesson?

55. What would be a funny posed picture that some one could take of your lab group that goes with the lesson today?

56. What famous scientist would you like to have join you today and why?

57. Share how you felt doing the lesson or lab.

58. Make up a bumper-sticker type slogan for this lesson, video, lab, or activity.

59. Draw a logo or symbol that would go with today's class.

60. Write a short poem, or song lyric that fits what we studied today.

61. Create a SketchWord of something we studied today.

62. Make a cartoon that is about what we studied today.

63. What cartoon character would fit in with this lab and why?

64. Write a joke about today's class?

65. What is the most embarrassing or mortifying thing that you think could happen to a student doing this, lab, activity or lesson today?


Standards 66-68

66. Explain how the lesson, video, lab, or activity covered one of the state standards. Be sure to name the standard and explain the connection to today's class.

67. Explain one of the standards using a lab that we recently did.

68. Put one of the standards into your own words. Re-write it!

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