By Pieces of Learning’s Staff Development Presenter
Dodie Merrit
Spec Sheets – ready-to-use
reproducibles - are another way of taking notes. Students complete them with
specific details about a topic being studied. They are much like the spec sheets
posted on the window of a new car. These “specs” help students organize data.
Individual students
can use them as they do research; when several students are collecting the same
kind of information about a topic, completed sheets can be used to see how
collected research is alike and different.
Completed Spec Sheets provide the
student with a format for neat and legible gathered information. Collected
sheets may be bound into a resource book. Students can design a cover, write an
introduction, and include their bibliographies so that future students can use
them as an introduction to the research topic.
Example sheets include :
Science, Social Studies, and the Visual and Performing Arts. Topics
include U.S. Presidents, the planets, animal species, the states, types of
weather, types of castles, famous people, art movements, kinds of cameras, body
systems, and more.
Spec Sheets are packaged as
separate sheets for easy duplication. A CD includes all of the sheets in PDF
format for on-demand printing.
