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Scientific Journaling and Taking Notes. Earth System Science Fieldtrip: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. Goal. A personal documentation your study of the Earth System. Grading. Your journal will be a project grade. January: create a web report using only your JOURNAL as a source
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ScientificJournaling and Taking Notes Earth System ScienceFieldtrip: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Goal • A personal documentation your study of the Earth System
Grading • Your journal will be a project grade. • January: create a web report • using only your JOURNAL as a source • The web report will be a test grade.
Include in the journal… • 1. A cover page: include a title, dates, class name, this journal goal, an illustration. • 2. Factual information • From your reading • From presentations • factual information
Include… • 3. Notes • Include your observations and thinking • Expand on the factual information • Show thinking skills • Make connections. Put ideas together • ask questions, and look for a deeper meaning • Reflect
include… • 4. Questions: • whatever comes into your head. • Curious? Don’t understand? New idea? • Find a time to ask the question or look up the answer. • 5. Drawings: • quick sketches of things you see • help you understand how things work • Help to remember vocabulary.
Include… • 6. Vocabulary: Set aside one page for vocabulary words that you encounter. Choose words and write them down... find the meanings. • 7. Specifics: dates, times, people's names, place names, references for sources of information.