What Does a Scientist Do?

Back in August, I started teaching the subject of science.  I asked the children what they thought a scientist does.  Today, on the last full day of school, I asked again. We compared the first and last entry in their science notebooks.  Here they are!

What does a scientist do?

August: A hook, a bear, a balloon, a sucker, a little kid.
June: They work on stuff and create stuff.

August: Scientist looking at a bird.
June: They work on stuff. They learn about animals like a snake. Mine is a girl scientist.

August: Inside the body.
June: Scientists discover things.

August: There once was a big wall and no one could get through.
June: "Hi, It's me Atticus. I am making a paper machine. It makes paper."

August: Things that they have in the Doctor's office when you have surgery...and ladybugs.
June: A magnifying glass to look at things through a microscope.  Little Itty-Bitty things.

August: Once upon a time there were machines. Science machines.
June: Scientists discover flowers and things like that.

August: This is me. A scientist discovering Earth.
June: They figure out things. They figure out fossils.

August: A scientist is somebody who studies something.
June: A scientist studies things like history.

August: Scientists make potions.
June: A scientist discovers a dinosaur egg.

August: A scientist looks for things and makes potions.
June: A scientist studies the Titanic. Study it. Study in it. Study the rooms and what was, how it sunk, what people got in it.

August: The Earth.
June: Discover dinosaur eggs. Do experiments. Flowers and their pollen. A gorilla can bite stronger than a shark. How flowers grow- the little tubes that suck up the water.

August: One kind is a dinosaur scientist.
June: They dig up eggs and bones. Sometimes they open them and find out what species it was.

August: A princess
June: They look at bugs with magnifying glasses. They study things. They look at dinosaur bones. They do lots of things.