Why Use Journal Zone?

• Journal writing is powerful for learning
- Journal Zone is a place to think, to plan, to reflect.
- It actively engages students in their learning.

• Journal Starters scaffold student thinking
- They initiate, support, and expand students' ideas.
- They help students plan, reflect, and effectively comment on the work of others.

• Journal Zone provides a unique collaborative environment that allows students to make sense out of their existing knowledge.
- It encourages them to question, struggle with contradictions, to resolve difficulties all within a social context.
- Students see how others think and work.

• Use Journal Zone as:
- a place to "think about" and discuss a project
- a workshop in which to create and show presentations that contain text, graphics, frame-by-frame animations, and sound
- or both!!

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