Science Writing

The students are learning to write like scientists. Yesterday we wrote a question and made an hypothesis.  Then we wrote the procedure and conclusion page.  Our question was "Will the little car go farther off the ramp on the carpet or the bare floor?"  The students then wrote their hypothesis or what they think the answer might be.  Then I set up the ramp and I tried it out and the car went farther on the bare floor just like everyone thought!  Then the students wrote a conclusion to explain their thinking. Today, we look at some real science books and how they wrote up their procedures. Then the students set up their own ramp and tried it out with their own toy cars and rewrote their own procedure page.  They included a "You will need" section, labeled the pictures they drew, and numbered and wrote out the steps so someone else could repeat the procedure!  They sure worked hard!