My Science Diary

My Science Diary turns your iPhone or iPad into a field notebook. It is the fill-in half of the printed book, built for a child who wants to record what they saw before they forget it. Two kinds of entry, both matching the paper forms exactly. An observation asks for the date, the time, the weather, where you were, and the phase of the moon. Then it asks the two questions that matter: what did you observe, and what do you want to find out next. An experiment asks for your purpose, your hypothesis, what you needed, what you did, what actually happened, and what you concluded from it. Nothing fills itself in. The child looks up the weather and works out the phase of the moon, because finding out is the lesson. WHAT GOES IN AN ENTRY Write as much as you like. Draw it. Add photographs. Record fifteen seconds of video of the thing moving, which is often the only way to catch it. The printed…