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The notebook is a tool that encourages students to use writing for thinking and empowers them to become active in their learning .

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Wonder

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Language (home language &family connection)

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Fragments

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Each child may use a different strategy to record their observation.

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Ownership.

Students will gradually take ownership of what they are learning.  At first much of what students put in will be teacher led, but eventually students will take more control.

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More meaningful than saying drawing

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Power.

The article spoke about how a student-generated notebook is very powerful.

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Unique - gives ownership to the kids because THEY make it theirs.

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Ownership - students reflect in their own way

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Facilitating ownership...allowing students to take initiative in their learning.

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Risks-so difficult to get students to be independent thinkers and 'risk' doing it their way.

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Risks-so difficult to get students to be independent thinkers and 'risk' doing it their way.

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Linkage - connects the graphics and observations

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Gives the student the opportunity to write what 'they' experienced.

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Ownership of their learning, ownership of what and how to record

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a powerful vehicle for meaning-making is science

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For them to make meaningful connection to content in their journal writing

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The whole article was about the different ways they enhanced understanding.

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Opportunities -gives the students opportunities to have a "voice" in their work in their journal. CHOICES

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It gets students to really think about what they are learning.

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Individualize

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Students learn from one another as they discuss and share use of strategies while they record their thinking.

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allows students to have ownership over their leaning and makes it more meaningful

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Meaning-making:making sense of a concept through student produced graphics and understandings

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Meaning-making:making sense of a concept through student produced graphics and understandings

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Students have a say in how they record information.

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Graphical representations: sts can use the graphic representations to connect the concrete with the abstract

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Touch

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Nonthreatening - because it allows students to be engaged in an activity where English is not the primary way to respond

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"Ownership" students should be able to feel personally connected to their notebook as a reflection of their learning