Science Investigation and Self Reflection Guide. This guide is designed to be used by students of any grade and skill level to complete a scientific lab for any curriculum area. It is a simple, scaffolded step-by-step walkthrough to get your kids used to writing lab reports. Each section is laid out and contains sentence starters to get them writing. I have found that with my students, providing them with this kind of scaffolding reduces their stress levels and also works great as a data coll