Evidence of Organization
Examples of improvements on organization are in science notebook:
How useful is my science notebook as a learning tool?
My science notebook became more useful over semesters because I learned to make my notebook more organized but I still have to work on writing neatly.
- Successfully completing the first assignment helped me start the school year organized and think about how to manage my goals better.
- Creating a detailed description of my summer activity helped me practice connecting real experiences to science concepts.
- My results on the end-of-unit assessment show that I developed a strong understanding of biological evolution concepts.
- Making the planetary formation model helped me understand how meteoroids turn into meteorites and how forces and energy transformations are involved.
- Creating the scaled timeline helped me better understand the order and timing of major life events in Earth’s history.
- Writing the CER response and getting peer feedback helped me improve how I explain my reasoning using evidence.
- Using more specific evidence in my CER helped make my argument about evolution clearer and stronger.
- Revising my CER with better evidence and reasoning helped me improve my scientific explanation and my final score.
- Creating the graph helped me understand how to visually represent changes in animal populations over time.
- Completing the graphic organizer helped me better understand anatomical and embryological evidence for evolution.
- Updating and resubmitting my lab report helped me improve my work and meet the project expectations.
- Contributing to the species group presentation helped me practice communicating scientific ideas and working with my group.
- Researching my species and completing the graphic organizer helped me learn more about how species evolve and adapt.
- Completing the critical thinking prompt helped me think more deeply about how light works.
- Participating in the online discussion helped me explain my ideas about air temperature and time of day.
- Completing the brain pop notes after a reminder helped me realize I need to stay on top of assignments and manage my time better.
- Working on the ocean currents explanation helped me understand how ocean currents form and affect Earth’s systems.
- Interpreting graphs about resources and consumption helped me better understand how humans use Earth’s resources.
- Writing captions about human impacts on Earth’s systems helped me practice using evidence to explain environmental changes.
- Developing questions from the documentary helped me think more deeply about how human activities affect endangered animals.
- Researching and presenting the city weather project helped me learn about climate and practice sharing information with others.
- Completing the synthetic materials quiz helped me show my understanding of how synthetic materials are used and their impacts.
- Learning about plastic and the environment helped me understand how human products can affect ecosystems.
- Using the CRAAP test helped me evaluate sources and decide if information is reliable.
- Creating the synthetic materials project helped me understand how natural resources are used to make products.
- Participating in the ocean currents discussion helped me think critically about how ocean currents move.
- Contributing to the wind and ocean currents discussion helped me practice explaining my ideas and analyzing scientific concepts.
In the first semester, I did very well on the quizzes and showed a strong understanding of the science concepts we learned.
In the second semester, I struggled a little more on some quizzes but still continued learning and improving my understanding of the material.
Evidence of Growth in Science Skills
In my first CER, I learned that I needed to include more specific evidence from sources to make my argument stronger and clearer.
In my second CER, I improved by including more specific evidence and better connecting my reasoning to the claim.
