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What is a field journal?

What is a field journal?. Nature journal, science notebook, log, diary. What is field journaling?. “The process of keeping a place-based, personal record of events, observations, and experiences in the outdoors.” (Hofmann and Passineau). Field Journal Purposes.

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What is a field journal?

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  1. What is a field journal? • Nature journal, science notebook, log, diary

  2. What is field journaling? • “The process of keeping a place-based, personal record of events, observations, and experiences in the outdoors.” (Hofmann and Passineau).

  3. Field Journal Purposes • Academic: art, science, math, language arts; integration • Scientific: research, record-keeping • Personal: gardening, landscaping, camping, bird watching, traveling and more

  4. Key Aspects for Education • A source of authentic, meaningful and purposeful raw data discovered directly, first-hand

  5. Why use field journals? • Active learning from direct, first-hand, personal accounts: ownership

  6. Why use field journals? • Allows students to lead their learning with their own questions, easily making it student and inquiry driven

  7. “…writing a fact makes one observe it better.” Ernest Thompson Seton

  8. Why use field journals? • Source of raw data and information from which to write poems, reports, and speeches or develop posters, songs, art, and other polished work - Haiku -There is a grand showit’s full of amazements and all wonderful things

  9. Why use field journals? • Helps support academic standards • Grade-able • P-T conference tool

  10. Why use field journals?They’re not just for science class: • Math: the journal is a place to record data that will be analyzed • Language Arts: The process of putting thoughts on paper integrates with Language • Art: Sketches of their observations integrate with Art

  11. Today’s Journaling Tips! Journal with your students whenever possible.

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