ssyr day 2

Starting the School Year Right

Day Two

The Interactive Student Notebook

Essential Question

How will a great notebook make you a great student?

OverviewStudents analyze placards depicting portions of the interactive student notebook (ISN) and try to match them to a notebook tip. Afterwards, the class debriefs by conducting a blue-ribbon panel on the “most important” tips to making a great notebook.

Preview Students complete a “buddy clock or map” activity to be used in paired activities for this lesson and future lessons.

Activity Students working in pairs sort through tips on making a great notebook. They match the tip to one of XXX placards depicting notebook work around the room. After correctly matching all the tips, the class debates which tips are the most important to making a great notebook.

Processing Students create a word cloud on the topic of notebooks including adjectives that describe what a great notebook would look like.

ObjectivesIn the course of this lesson and participating classroom activity, students will• analyze the importance of working in pairs as a way to learn content.•explain how maintaining a good notebook will allow them to deepen their understanding of content.

Materials Copies of Buddy Clock, Travel Partner, or Science & Engineering Practice Partner. There is

one for all science and social studies classes. Use the one you want and hide the other slides. Slides 10-14

Copies of Interactive Student Notebook tips – 1 copy per pair, cut into strips – Slide 21

Copies of each Interactive Student Notebook Images placards – Slides 22 to 32 note: there are examples of spiral-bound notebooks, consumable notebooks, and digital notebooks. Use the ones you plan to use in class.

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Starting the School Year Right – The Interactive Student Notebook

Essential Question

How will a great notebook make you a great student?


Preview


Buddy Clock Directions

1. Print your name in the middle of your clock on the line provided.

2. You may only get another students name on your clock ONCE.

3. When asking someone to sign a particular hour on your clock, you BOTH have to blanks by that hour.

4. If you are having trouble finding someone that has an opening for a particular hour on the clock, ask aloud, “Does anyone have an opening for __ o’clock?”

5. Take your completed clock to your teacher when all twelve hours are filled.

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Debrief

Sometimes we will be doing work that requires us to work with a partner.

Keep this activity, so that I can arrange you with a partner quickly the next time.

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ACTIVITYSkill-Builder


Time Machines…

Author H. G. Wells captured the imagination of readers everywhere with his novella, The Time Machine, in 1895. In the story, Time Traveller (as he is simply known) goes well into the future.

Subsequent books, comics, and movies have all imagined what time travel would be like.

If you could go back in time and give your former self advice before a big event, what would you say to yourself?

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In this activity, you will pretend to have been visited by your future self with some advice on how to get a great grade on your interactive student notebook.

The trouble is, all you have are four tips your future self wrote over and over again and some images taken of your notebook.

Your job in this activity will be to work with a partner to match the tips to the images hanging around the room.

All images relate to more than one tip.

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Step by Step Directions:

1. Cut out the ISN tips and separate them into the four tips.

2. Go to one of the placards posted around the room.

3. Study the image(s).

4. Talk with your partner – Which two ISN tips do you believe apply to this placard?

5. Complete the tip sentence and tape your tips around the outside of the placard (not directly on).

6. Repeat the process for the remaining placards.

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Be Neat

We think this tip fits with this image because:------------------------------------------------------


Debrief:

Create a human bar-graph by standing in front of the placard you think best represents the tip:

• Be Neat

• Be Detailed

• Be Creative

• Be Consistent

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ACTIVITYProcessing


Processing:

What adjectives would describe a great Interactive Student Notebook?

Create a *word cloud with at least ten adjectives.

Are some descriptions more important to a great notebook than others? Make the largest the most important, the smallest the least.

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ssyr day 2

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