Mystery Class Journals: Reflecting on Data and Concepts
Mystery Class journal pages help students reflect on data and concepts each week. Examining and reflecting on the data is essential. Watch for journal questions specific to the week's photoperiod data in each Mystery Class Update. The journal questions invite students to identify patterns, make predictions, compare/contrast findings, and pose possible explanations for results. Mystery Class journals work side-by-side with your students’ charts and graphs. The cover and journal pages can be downloaded, printed, and organized in a folder to help students organize for learning. Explore these pages to select ones that will meet your students’ instructional needs:
Journal Page Options:
Print this cover page or invite students to create their own.
Use this journal page at any time during your Mystery Class investigation to guide students’ analysis of sunrise/sunset data for the class they are trying to locate.
This journal page can be used to help students take a closer look at data for a specific Mystery Class, working in small groups or individually.
Sentence starters invite them to summarize what the data revealed, compare findings with previously collected data, and make predictions for the next week.
Students are given specific questions to focus their attention on the data and clues collected each week during their search. Links to these pages are provided as part of the weekly Mystery Class updates on these dates:
- To see Journal Pages from past seasons, see archives.
