Writer's Workshop

Today, we began our work in our next Writer's Workshop unit:  Writing Lab Reports and Science Books.  We practiced writing like scientists.  First, we asked the question, "Will the car go farther using the ramp stacked with 6 books or with the one with 3 books?"  Then we each wrote a hypothesis about what we guessed would happen.  The big work was writing out the procedures for our experiment, which we did as a large group.  

We decided to measure with meter sticks to see how far the car went down the ramp.

Here, you see students in small groups conducting the experiment and recording the data they found.

We conducted 4 trials using the ramp with 6 books and another 4 trials using the 3 books.