Notebook Setup please do not write in your notebooks yet! Spring 2010 Biology 100

Your FIRST and LAST Name Notebook Setup Guide ON THE FRONT COVER Your FIRST and LAST Name BIO100 Spring 2010 Chapman Rm. 102 Also, please place your initials (or other identifying mark) on the 3 sides

SCIENCE NOTEBOOKS

Why should you use a notebook? Using a notebook systematically and intentionally will increase content knowledge and academic success. We have a fully referenced PowerPoint presentation of Science Notebooks that goes into great detail about this if it is needed. 4

Historical Uses of Notebooks Let’s look at how notebooks have been used in the past: 5

Historical Use As long as people have been investigating natural phenomena, they have been keeping records of what they do. Why? This is imperative for understanding the importance of notebooks in science (English too – coming later). Using notebooks today is based on solid evidence that successful scientists use this method of record keeping. It would appear that keeping records allows the investigator to go back and review original thoughts or to modify their thoughts. The notebook is an integral part of the investigative process. 6

Archimedes 287 BC to 211 BC The Archimedes Palimpsest is available through PBS at their Infinite Secrets site. 7

Leonardo da Vinci 1452 to 1519 Leonardo da Vinci’s notebooks, known as the Codex Arundel, were very extensive. Contents of his surviving notebooks may be inspected at Public Broadcasting Systems website or at the British Library. 8

Walt Whitman 1819-1892 QUICKSAND YEARS QUICKSAND years that whirl me I know not whither, 
Your schemes, politics, fail, lines give way, substances mock and elude me;
Only the theme I sing, the great and strong-possess'd soul, eludes not; 
One's-self must never give way–that is the final sub- stance–that out of all is sure; 
Out of politics, triumphs, battles, life, what at last finally remains? 
When shows break up what but One's-Self is sure? Leaves of Grass, 1871 Fifth Edition http://www.whitmanarchive.org/published/LG/1871/clusters/224 1819 31 May, Walter Whitman born at West Hills, Huntington Township, New York, the second child of Walter Whitman, house builder, and Louisa Van Velsor, both descendants of early settlers on Long Island. Seven other Whitman children survive infancy: Jesse (1818–1870), Mary Elizabeth (1821–1899), Hannah Louisa (1823–1908); Andrew Jackson (1827–1863); George Washington (1829–1901); Thomas Jefferson (1833–1890); and Edward (1835—1892). 1855 15 May, takes out copyright on the first edition of Leaves of Grass, containing twelve poems and a preface. Leaves is printed by the Rome brothers in Brooklyn during first week of July. 1867 Fourth edition of Leaves of Grass printed in New York; publishes "Democracy," first part of Democratic Vistas, in December in the Galaxy. 1870 Suffers depression; prints fifth edition of Leaves of Grass 1891 Publishes Good-bye My Fancy and Deathbed edition of Leaves of Grass (both published by McKay, dated 1892). 1892 26 March, dies at Mickle Street; 30 March, buried in Harleigh Cemetery, Camden, New Jersey. 9

Oscar Wilde 1854-1900 Oscar: "I never travel without my notebook." “It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about, nowadays, saying things against one behind one's back that are absolutely and entirely true.” – The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891 Although a proficient and versatile writer, Wilde only wrote one novel during his lifetime: “The Picture of Dorian Gray,” published in 1891. Regarded as one of the greatest playwrights of the Victorian Era, Wilde wrote and produced nine plays. 1878 Ravenna 1881 Poems 1888 The Happy Prince and Other Tales 1889 The Decay of Lying1891 The Picture of Dorian Gray 1891 Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime and Other Stories 1891 Intentions1891 Salome1892 The House of Pomegranates 1892 Lady Windermere’s Fan1893 A Woman of No Importance 1893 The Duchess of Padua 1894 The Sphinx 1895 An Ideal Husband 1895 The Importance of Being Earnest 1898 The Ballad of Reading Gaol 10

Ernest Hemingway Pulitzer Prize-1953 Nobel Prize in Literature-1954 'You belong to me and all Paris belongs to me and I belong to this notebook and this pencil.’   'There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it's like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges.' Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899 — July 2, 1961) was an American novelist, short-story writer, and journalist. He received the Pulitzer Prize in 1953 for The Old Man and the Sea, and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. 11

Thomas Edison 1847 to 1931 The Edison Papers is the repository of Thomas Alva Edison’s notebooks and papers.. 12

The Wright Brothers Orville (1871-1948) Wilbur (1867-1912) The Wright Brothers notebooks may be examined in part at the U.S. Centennial of Flight website. 13

Winner of two Nobel Prizes, 1903 and 1911 Marie Curie 1867-1934 Winner of two Nobel Prizes, 1903 and 1911 Marie Curie, née Sklodowska France Sorbonne University Paris, France b. 1867(in Warsaw, Poland, then Russian Empire)d. 1934 "in recognition of her services to the advancement of chemistry by the discovery of the elements radium and polonium, by the isolation of radium and the study of the nature and compounds of this remarkable element" Marie Curie’s biography may be viewed at Nobelprize.org 14

Barbara McClintok 1902-1992 Barbara McClintok, an American geneticist won the 1983 Nobel Prize in Physiology of Medicine for her discovery of genetic transposition. Her scientific work may be viewed at The National Library of Medicine. 15

Modern Day Use Then and Now… 16

Real Scientists Use Notebooks Today “When I was in the field, I used a … notebook to record observations and notes. In fact, I still use one.” Bill Johnson, Soil Scientist Natural Resources Conservation Service United States Department of Agriculture 17

Now, we will talk about how you will use the Notebook to learn and Your Notebook Now, we will talk about how you will use the Notebook to learn and apply it to your classroom. Notice the slide does not say “science notebooks” or “English notebooks”. 18

Notebook Setup Materials Tape, Scissors, Sharpies Lab Syllabus Safety Contract Lab Schedule

1 Inside the notebook ALL pages are numbered in the top corners Front (right) = odds Rear (left) = evens We will all have the same thing on the same page Inside front cover and inside rear cover don’t have page #s Write big? Write smaller, use the margins, and/or tape in extra pages (p.13A, 13B, etc.). Number pages 1-40 now

Procedures Arts & Crafts time Let’s chat about some classroom procedures for doing arts and crafts Always return materials to their places Tape = $$$, so be gentle, NO LAMINATING!!! Don’t run with scissors (you know who you are)

Inside Front Cover: Lab Schedule

1-4 Table of Contents (two columns - fold page in half) _________________ 41 _________________ 42 _________________ 43 _________________ 44 Etc……… Table of Contents.. 1 “ 2 “ 3 “ 4 (more to follow!) 5 Etc. … Every page should have a TITLE and an entry in the Table of Contents (TOC) Please number 1-40 now, and then start column 2 with 41

5, 6, 7, 8 Vocabulary (six boxes per page) A - F G - L M - R S - XYZ Think of these pages as a sort of index…

9-10 Safety contract

What about thoughts and tidbits? Where can we keep important tidbits? (the last pages of the notebook) Keep notes, phone numbers, sample problems or anything else that will help you with this class here.