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Seamus Doran's avatar

The notes in Sandra's notebook are fantastic! Thanks for sharing. I think they are even better than Stephen Hawking's.

This is also why I love using small whiteboards with students. I used to ask students to put down their ideas individually, then form a group of 4 and swap whiteboards to see each others' ideas and contribute to another small whiteboard forming a group model, and then gallery-walking the group models before ultimately creating a class model. Students who had many ideas could show them and those with fewer could pick them up along the way.

I'd love to hear an other routines people love using to make students' thinking visible in the classroom during the learning.

Kurt Wootton's avatar

Love this idea of students working individually on their own then synthesizing in a larger one. Thanks for sharing this idea Seamus.

Jenna Vandenberg's avatar

I'm not sure I belong in the same sentence as Stephen Hawking, but thanks for the nod :)

I LOVE your daughter's science notebook! I hope she has a spectacular pen collection.

Kurt Wootton's avatar

Of course you do! (and the entire Marvel Universe!) I do need to get her better pens!

Adrian Neibauer's avatar

I love this! The brown paper scribbled with tons of thinking reminds me of the mathematicians at Numberphile. Ideas get unlocked when collaborating with a sharpie on a huge roll of brown butcher paper!

https://www.numberphile.com/

Kurt Wootton's avatar

I'll check it out! Thanks Adrian.