Several of the Building Science Concepts booklets at L1 & 2 ask students to draw pictures to communicate their ideas. In Making Porridge: Conducting Heat and Cooking Food (Booklet 14, Section 3, Activity 2, page 14)students draw simple flow charts showing how heat travels. In Where’s the Water? Water’s Forms and Changes in Form (Booklet 15, Section 2, Activity 2, pages 11–12) students draw pictures to explain what happens to water when it evaporates.
Several resources in the Assessment Resource Banks also require students to draw pictures to communicate their ideas about the Material World, e.g.,
Dissolving sugar
,
Amazing water
, and
The disappearing puddle
.
For all these activities, focus attention on how students are representing their ideas.