

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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