Unit Plan

Writing With Scientists Teacher's Guide

Provide students with step-by-step support to transform a collection of notes, observations, research, and experiments into a well-organized, thorough, and thoughtful science report.

  • Grades: 3–5, 6–8
This Unit Plan supports Writing with Scientists Activity

Overview

Writing with Scientists provides your students with step-by-step support to transform a collection of notes, observations, research, and experiments into a well-organized, thorough, and thoughtful science report. Students can use this site if they've already done research on a topic of interest or they may use it as a pre-guide to set up goals before gathering research and data.

Host Dr. Susan Perkins, a microbiologist at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, shares her experience taking lizard parasite research from idea phase to published report. Students can listen to her story and read along.

Objective

Students will:

  1. Describe their big question and hypothesis
  2. Clearly explain research and information
  3. Present and analyze their results
  4. Use scientific vocabulary accurately
  5. Communicate new questions
  6. Show sources in a bibliography
  7. Publish their science report online to be shared with a whole community of student scientists

Lesson Plans for this Unit

Supporting Books

Books and Resources for Writing with Scientists

  • Everything You Need:
    Writing Resources: Everything You Need
  • Subjects:
    Research Skills, Writing, Science Experiments and Projects, Observation
  • Skills:
    Research Skills, Writing
  • Duration:
    18 Days
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