Interactive Student Notebook Your Key to Success

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What is an Interactive Notebook? A personalized textbook A working portfolio – all of your vocabulary, notes, classwork, quizzes – in one convenient spot.

Purpose Be a creative, independent and reflective thinker and writer throughout the year. Express your own ideas and process skills -- apply the information and skills learned in this class.

Purpose TO STAY ORGANIZED Each unit will have the following: - a Table of Contents - a Vocabulary section - Classwork - notes (Cornell method)

Date Title RIGHT PAGE LEFT PAGE Student Responses Pg # Teacher Information

Right Side The Right side belongs to Mrs. Harvey/Ms. Sunnaa, (Note section area) The Right side has all “testable” information including: –Date –Title and page numbers –Vocabulary –Class, reading, and discussion notes –Worksheets –Study Guides –Content and Unit Objectives –Other relevant information

Examples of Right Side Assignments Articles Notes Graphic Organizers / Thinking Maps In-class Assignments Recording Sheets

Left Side Left Side is to record your thinking, reflections, questions, thoughts, impressions, connections, and wonderings AFTER the class notes/activity is introduced! The Left side belongs to YOU! –Apply skills learned in class– REFLECTION! –Use graphs, charts, Venn Diagrams, research from internet –Make connections between new and old learning –Questions –Thinking Maps –Poems –Songs –Brainstorming –Sketches related to learning –Other relevant information

Student Materials Spiral notebook (8 by 11) Colored pencils Pencil/Pen Glue stick (I only have a classroom set)

Maintaining the Interactive Notebook No ripped out pages or torn corners No doodling that doesn’t relate to notes Date, title on each page

A new notebook for each semester- Possibly more!

Your notebook will be assessed and it will be part of your behavioral standards. Notebook checks are unannounced and can occur at any random time during the school year.

How long should it take to work on my notebook? Normally class time is given to work on right side assignments and sometimes this includes time to work on a left side. Notes will be taken daily. Classwork will be assigned daily. (Right-side information). The expectation is that you will revisit the right side to review the material by completing a left side activity of your own choosing. This is a reflective learning behavior and an expectation of the class. Once you have a good understanding of the kinds of left side activities that can be done, it should take you about 15 minutes to complete a left side.

Setting up the Interactive Student Notebook THE ISN Setting up the Interactive Student Notebook

Initial Set Up 1. Your notebook should be set up following the directions given by Mrs. Harvey/Ms. Sunnna. 2. Any missing or incomplete part of these directions will be a reflection of your behavior. 3. Some contents of your notebook will be evaluated as part of your academic learning behaviour standards.

Your name: Class: Decorate the page (If you want to) SCIENCE The “have to’s” on the outside cover