Science Writing

The students love this writing unit! We're writing like a scientist! The students are learning to write a question, hypothesis, the procedure, the results and a conclusion. In our first science lab booklet we all wrote the same question: Will the little car go farther on the bare floor or carpet? Then the students wrote their hypothesis. We then wrote the exact procedure to set up the experiment so other scientists could repeat the same test. We had 3 trials and recorded the data and wrote the results and a conclusion together. Then the last 2 days the students changed one variable and and wrote up their own lab book with the question, hypothesis and procedure. The trials were exciting and they've all recorded they're data and results. Today they will be writing their conclusions using all of their scientific knowledge about friction, force, gravity, and speed.