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Early Efforts to Keep a Science NotebookTRANSCRIPT
REAL WORLD OF SCIENTISTS
Examples of Science Notebooks from the REAL WORLD OF SCIENTISTS The
scientists notebooks featured in this section come from those
working at Battelle Pacific NW National Labs. Early Efforts to Keep
a Science Notebook In the spring of 1869, a young amateur
naturalist named John Muir visited what was to become Yosemite
National Park.He kept a daily journal that summer, excerpts of
which eventually made it into The Atlantic Monthly in 1911, shortly
before the entire journal was published under the title My First
Summer in the Sierra. In between musings about the diverse
environment around him, Muir contemplates the tiny ecosystem that
exists on the clothing of his companion, the shepherd: His trousers
in particular have become so adhesive with the mixed fat and resin,
that pine-needles, thin flakes and fibers of bark, hair,
mica-scales, and minute grains of quartz, hornblende, etc.,
feathers, seed, wings, moth and butterfly wings, legs and antennae
of innumerable insects, or even whole insects such as the small
beetles, moths, and mosquitoes, with flower-petals, pollen dust,
and indeed bits of all plants, animals, and minerals of the region,
adhere to them, and are safely imbedded, so that, though far from
being a naturalist, he collects fragmentary specimens of
everything, and becomes richer than he knows The man is a
microcosm; at least our shepherd is, or rather his trousers. These
precious overalls are never taken off, and nobody knows how old
they are, though one may guess by their thickness and concentric
structure. Instead of wearing thin they wear thick, and in their
stratification have no small geological significance. Computational
Chemist
Something wrong with this Computational Chemist
will have all of these checked for instability and optimize
Reference graphs and tables pasted into notebook
Materials Scientist Materials Scientist Sample sketch Materials
Scientist Results (crossed out) ECOLOGIST Describing the problem
the purpose of the study ECOLOGIST Identifying the site including
selection criteria ECOLOGIST Specifications regarding the Elk
Enclosures Tips to Remember Always date each page Always number
pages at bottom
Update table of contents frequently Never white out datacross out
instead It is ok to make comments about accuracy or any
concerns/issuesthese are part of observations! Drawings should be
included! Be clear so as someone else can follow what you did
Other? Notebook Check What makes a great PowerPoint?
Every Monday, starting next Monday! Also you must fill out the SRS
Weekly Progress Report Tuesdays will be mini-lesson for the first
30 minutes My RNAi, Mito DNA and fluorescent dinos groups will meet
every Thursday and Friday, plus whenever you need to take care of
plants and other data Finish any missing paperwork (ISEF papers due
ASAP); Work on PowerPoint-will start sharing in December What makes
a great PowerPoint?