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Science notebook , a multidisciplinary tool ?.
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Science notebook , a multidisciplinary tool ? “Combien de pêcheurs basques à la course à la baleine, combien de Norvégiens, de grecs, de Phéniciens, de bretons inconnus, avaient découvert l’Amérique et le trou du Pacifique avant le savant érudit Christophe Colomb représentant des rois ?Ils ne l’ont pas écrit, voilà toute l’affaire.“Michel Serres
Teacher’s educational frame at French primary school • institutional ( curricula, inspection, political incentive, survey..) and social ( parents, press..) stimulation for reading-writing-counting • polyvalent status = multidisciplinary approach – coherence with the different fields taught. • Valorization of finalized and well-done works, avoiding trial test and individual learning processes
Science notebookFormat and contents • Personal notebook or file with individual and collective works • With texts, draws, charts, pictures… • 3 functions for pupils: communication, memorization, conceptualization • and for the teacher a tool for individual evaluation • writing Structure : questions, observations, predictions, argumentation, experimental devices… • No orthographic correction in individual part • Use in kinder garden , pupils comment, teacher legend.
qu ’est- ce que je cherche, mes observations, mes expériences, qu ’est-ce que j ’ai appris, etc.…)
The notebook reinforce multidisciplinary skils • writing organization ( report...) • argumentation vs. affirmation • support for vocabulary, grammar ( linking particles if...thus) and conjugation activities, mathematics ( chart, graphics, ...).
transfers to other fiel Civic instruction
. mathematics
Evaluation • In pilot centre ( Ariège) : almost 60 % teachers are using a science notebook for children 5 to 11 years, just 20 % for kinder garden • In Bergerac : 100 % classes / 50% of teachers using for evaluation • In Vaulx en Velin (200 classes) : increase of the general level of the national language test since 1995…. • But no real assessment
Extension for other age ranges • 28/02/02 science notebook used for Illiterate young adults ( Brazil) 09/05/02