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 notebook Format 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
In language
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 09/05/02 science notebook used for Illiterate young adults ( Brazil)