interactive student notebooks a lance 2013
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What is the purpose of an Interactive Notebook?
• The purpose of this interactive notebook is to enable students to be creative, independent thinkers and writers.
• Interactive notebooks are used for class notes as well as for other activities where students are asked to express their own ideas and process the information presented in class.
Interactive Notebooks…
• Organize the student• Help students sequence
assignments• Encourage pride in student work• Facilitate cooperative interaction• Appeal to multiple intelligences• Provide opportunities to spiral
instruction and facilitate learning• Formative & Summative
What are InteractiveStudent Notebooks?
A student thinking tool And organizer for inquiry questions and what I
learned… A way to access and process the learning
utilizing various modalities (writing, drawing, and discussion)
A place for writing rough drafts based on hands-on learning
A formative assessment tool for teachers
Why Use Interactive Student Notebooks?
Improve organization skills Improve critical thinking skills Express understanding creatively Improve ways to learn vocabulary
Why are we using Interactive Student Notebooks?
Record data Study for tests Record progress Communication
Students can…
• Transform written concepts into visuals
• Find main points of a lesson or concept
• Organize historical events into a topical map
• Draw whatever illustration that makes sense to them
• Personalize the historic event or lesson.
Parts of the Notebook
• Cover Page
• Rubric
• Table of Contents
• Unit Cover Page
• Standards/objectives
• Notes/Activities
• Student Reflection
• Parent Review
Right vs. Left side of the spiral
Left brain controls the right side
Right brain controls the left side
Brain Based Learning
Experimentation has shown that the two different sides, or hemispheres, of the brain are responsible for different manners of thinking. The following table illustrates the differences between left-brain and right-brain thinking:
Left Brain Right Brain
•Logical•Sequential•Rational•Analytical•Objective•Looks at parts
•Random•Intuitive•Holistic•Synthesizing•Subjective•Looks at wholes
How is it organized?
Left Side Right SideLearning Objective:
Summary
Cue Questions
Left Side – Right Side Orientation
• The Left side is “left” for students. This is the side that students can use to demonstrate their understanding & creativity.
• The Right side is “Restricted” and contains teacher guided notes
Right SideTeacher presents new info
• Class notes (Cornell)• Discussion notes• Reading notes• Video notes• Handouts with new
information• Graphic organizers• Vocabulary• Foldables
Odd Pages
An opportunity for teachers to model how to think graphically
Left Side-Students Process New Ideas
• Reorganize new information in creative formats
• Express opinions and feelings• Requires students to actively do something
with the information to internalize it• Gives students permission to be playful,
imaginative, experimental, creative• Allows various learning styles to process
information
Even Pages
Right Side? Left Side?What Goes Where?
Left SideStudent OutputLots of Color
The brain remembers things in color better.
Concept Maps Drawings Reflective Writing Questions Data and Graphs Songs Poems Data from Experiments Cartoons or cartoon strips
Right SideTeacher Input/Content
Blue or Black Ink/pencil
Information given in class Lecture Notes Lab Activities Video Notes Summaries Textbook Notes Procedures for experiments Classroom Specific Information
What can go in it?
• Drawings• Poetry• Raps• Graphic organizers• Cartoons• Maps• Charts and graphs• Invitations• Letters• ANYTHING!!!
More Examples of Left Side
“A Bit More On The Left”Getting Students to Think About Their Learning
REFLECTION: Use Guiding Prompts:What are you curious about?What would you like to test?What was the main idea?What are the important details to remember?How does this relate to your life?What don’t you understand?
OUTPUT(your interpretation)
INPUT(notes from teacher)
Example page:
Graphic Organizers
Help organize thoughts Assist with answering open response
questions
Fish Bones
Venn Diagram
T-chart
Net
Wheel
Tree
Acrostics
Comic Strips
Venns & Thinking Maps
Why use them?
• Students use both their visual and linguistic intelligences
– Approach understanding in many ways– Use many types of writing and graphic
techniques– Each student can select their best
medium to explore and learn new content
(DIFFERENTIATED INSTRUCTION!!!!)
Note taking becomes an active process
– Students are invited to take notes— it’s fun!
– Students will read their notes—they have to in order to process for the left side
– Students will be working with (rehearsing) the information which facilitates learning
– Students will actively be involved with the information
What do students
think about it?
Notebooks help students to systematically organize as they learn
– Organization is key to the notebook
– Concepts like• Table of Contents• Numbering pages• Topic headings
– They stress the organization of a book & they don’t lose papers
Notebooks become a portfolio of individual learning
– These are personal– Creative– They record student growth in
history– They show progress– They serve as a chronological
record of the learning and are great for review
Getting Started…
Getting started -Step 1:
My Name
My Grade
On the cover, write your name and period #. Draw a diagram of something that reminds you of ______________.
Language Arts Interactive Notebook• Implementation• Notebooks can be kept in your backpack, binder or
stored in the classroom. Bring it to class every day. It will not be in your best interest to lose it.
• Number the pages sequentially. Do not remove any pages. Both right and left pages should be numbered. It is important that all of us have the same information on the same page.
• The first pages are reserved for a table of contents, and instructions. Other information will be included as appendices.
• Use color to help organize your information.• Handouts, foldables and other papers should be
glued or taped in place. No staples.• You will need other supplies: markers, glue stick,
tape, ruler, pencils, colored pencils• Notebooks will be graded randomly using self, peer
and teacher checklists.
Lets Begin….
• Have students save 5-10 pages at the front of the notebook to house information about notebook (rubrics,syllabus), and the cumulative table of contents.
• Have them number the pages immediately so that they start in an organized fashion.
• Number each page front and back• Odd pages on left Even pages on
the right.• There will be no blank pages• Pages do not get torn out!!!
Step 2: Starting with the first page, number the first 50 pages.
Numbers should be small and at the top outside corner of every page.
1 32
Cover
of N
oteb
ook
Step 3:At the top of pages 3,4,5, write Table of
Contents. Divide each page into 3 columns, date, description, page #.
Table of Contents
3 54
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
(Skip pages 1 and 2)
Date Description Page #Date Description Page # Date Description Page #
Page Topic Date Grade
14 summary 8/14
15 How to use Cornell Notes 8/14
16
17
18
19
20
Step 4:
2•What are you curious about?•What would you like to test?•What was the main idea?•What are the important details to remember?•How does this relate to your life?•What don’t you understand?
Add the following reflection questions on page 2. You will use these as open response questions.
Example of communicating with others:
REFLECTION QUESTIONS:
What are you curious about?What would you like to test?What was the main idea?What are the important details to remember?How does this relate to your life?What don’t you understand?
Student Handouts
• The notebook should hold everything when possible
• Folding and gluing, cutting and gluing are key to organization
• As students age and material becomes too complex a separate folder (pocket folder) can be added to hold handouts that are multi-paged or make a pocket foldable
Assignment Record Sheet: US HistoryInteractive Notebook
Date Assigned
Due Date
Title of Assignment Teacher's Stamp
Grade
8/28 8/28 IC: Notebook Guidelines
8/28 8/28 R: Table of Contents
8/28 8/29 L: Opening warm-up: SS Classroom
8/29 8/29 R: My Clock appointments
8/30 8/30 L: People Hunt
8/30 8/31 R: ISN Cover Directions
8/31 9/4 L: Warm-Up: Where In The World 20/20
8/31 9/5 R: Ch 1 & 2 Vocab(Flipper) 30/30
9/5 9/6 L/R: Why Study History?
9/6 9/7 L: Write Your Own Quotation 16/15
9/10 9/10 R: ISN Cover Evaluation 36/30
9/10 9/10 L: Warm-Up: Understanding Chronology
9/13 9/13 L: Warm-Up: Expressing feelings about 911 Tragedy
9/13 9/17 R: Native American Migration
9/18 9/18 L: Concept Web: Native American Culture Areas
9/24 9/24 L/R: Writing About Exploration
9/25 9/25 R: Ch. 3 Vocab
9/26 9/26 R: Warm-up Exploration
Cornell Notes
(For right sides of spiral)
Basic Cornell Notes Instruction
Sheet
Samples
Why use Cornell notes?• Cornell note taking stimulates
critical thinking skills.
• Note taking helps students remember what is said in class.
• A good set of notes can help students work on assignments and prepare for tests outside of the classroom.
• Good Notes help students organize and process data and information.
• Helps student recall by getting them to process their notes multiple times.
How is it organized?
Left Side Right SideLearning Objective:
Summary
Cue Questions
Page NumberDateTopic
Questions,Subtitles,Headings,Etc.
Class Notes
2 1/2”
3 to 4 sentence summary across the bottom of the opposite page of the day’s notes
Cornell Notes Step by Step
Note-taking column1. Document- Always write the date and topic at
the top of the page2. Write Notes- The large box to the right is for
writing notes.
Skip a line between ideas and topics.
• Don't use complete sentences. Use abbreviations, whenever possible. Develop a shorthand of your own, such as using "&" for the word "and".
• Use whatever method works best for you
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Aug 14
Learning Objective: Explain the process involved in taking organized Cornell notes. How will this help me?
3. Questions- Review the notes as soon as possible after class.
• Pull out main ideas, key points, dates, and people, and write these in the left column in the form of questions. Use BLOOM’s!!!!
4. Recite- Cover the note taking column with a sheet of paper.
• Then, looking at the questions or cue-words in the question and cue column only, say aloud, in your own words, the answers to the questions, facts, or ideas indicated by the cue-words.
5. Summarize- Write a summary of the main idea of the notes at the bottom of your left hand page. Try to answer the learning objective question.
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Aug 14
Questions
go
here
•Summary added AFTER questionsare finished
•Summary should address the day’s learning objective
•Summaries DO NOT replace left side processing. You still need to process your notes. (on the left side)
Remember…
Cover Page Examples
Student Page Samples
Why use an ISN?To be like a REAL
scientist!
To record our thoughts, observations, questions
and ideas
The Right Side
• This is the information given to you by your teacher during class
• Examples may include:– Lecture, video or textbook Notes – Lab Activities– Summaries– Data from Experiments– Classroom Specific Information– Vocabulary
• Information on this side is TESTABLE material
Left Side Options• This is youryour side to
show you understand the material
• This ccoolloorrffuull and creative interaction helps your brain to process and remember the information better
• The result is greater success in science!!
Left side choices• Concept Maps
• Drawings/illustrations
• Poems/raps/songs
• Flow Charts• Graphs
• Teach your parent
Left Side Example
Left Side Example
Left Side Example
Left and Ride Side Sample
Right Hand❀ Always odd pages
❀ For notes (Cornell style unless told otherwise). Notes that are more than a page should be glued to the bottom of the current sheet (see class example)
❀ Also for worksheets, tests, handouts, and quizzes, classwork, and homework.
❀ Use highlighters and graphic organizers to make notes meaningful.
Right Hand Examples
Left Hand Used to synthesize information and notes.
Always even pages
Can use any the following activities:Thinking Maps Foldables
Original Drawings Reflections
Postcards Cartoons
Sentences or Paragraphs (in Spanish)
Posters/Comic Strips
Advertisements Poems
“What if?” Statements HOT questions w/answers
Left Hand Examples
Where am I going?
1. Provide a clear and understandable version of the learning target.
2. Use examples and models of strong and weak work.
Where am I now?
3. Offer regular descriptive feedback.
4. Teach students to self-assess and set goals.
How can I close the gap?
5. Design lessons to focus on one aspect of a GLE/CLE at a time.
6. Teach student focused revision.
7. Engage students in self-reflection. Let them keep track of and share their learning.
Interactive Notebooks
Improving ways for students to learn
mathematics vocabulary.
The Elements
CoversNotebook GuidelinesTable of contentsIndexRubricsExtrasPockets
Cove
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Name
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Gu
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Back of front cover
Tab
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Ru
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The last page…
Ind
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The last 6 pages…
Ext
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The back cover…
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Cle
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Pock
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Lib
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Pock
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Creative Note-taking
Flipped TrianglesLayered BooksTabbed BooksShutter BooksAccordion BooksTri-fold BooksFrayer ModelsVenn Diagrams
Fli
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Tri
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Laye
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Books
Tab
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Books
Tab
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Books
Tab
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Books
Sh
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Books
Acc
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Books
Tri
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Books
Fra
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Mod
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Ven
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Need More Ideas?
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Left Side 20 Right Side 21
Exit Card
NameQuestion: Explain how you would use
a strategy (from this presentation) that you could use in YOUR classroom.
Rate yourself: 1 = high confidence2 = medium confidence3 = I’m not sure on this
Would you help someone else learn this?
YES Not at this time