How to create an Interactive Science Notebook (ISN)

It’s YOUR book! This notebook is going to be a treasure of all the unbelievably, amazing, incredibly cool science stuff you will learn this year!!!

What is an ISN? -A student thinking tool -Organizer for inquiry questions -A place for taking notes -A formative assessment tool for teachers -A study guide for exams

Why use ISN? Allows you to be creative! Improves organization skills Improves critical thinking skills Teachers can write notes in the book to communicate with student

Impact of Hands-on Science Notebooks Research shows that student understanding and literacy skills improve when students do hands-on, minds-on science and use science notebooks to put terms in their own words.

ISN Supplies Composition Notebook Pens and pencils Scissors Glue Tape Colored pencils, markers and crayons Handouts

What every book needs… Colorful Cover Page Explanation of book with signatures Rubric Table of Contents ALL pages numbered Notes/Activities Reflections

Left side Vs. Right side (After Table of Contents) Right Side (Output) Left Side (Input) This side is the Teacher input and content. Best understood in black/blue ink or pencil. Content information from the days lesson. This side is the students’ responses to the content. Best remembered in CoLoR! Shows understanding of the day’s lesson.

More about the Left Side Class notes Discussion notes Reading notes Handouts with new information Graphic organizers Vocabulary Lab Activities *Allows different ways of learning

More about the right side Concept maps Diagrams Pictures Charts Writing prompts *Allows students to be creative when reorganizing the days information in new ways

Examples of Student Work

LETS GET STARTED!!! Cover Page should be COLORFUL and SCIENTIFIC! CREATIVITY IS THE KEY HERE!

Tape the blue paper with: “purpose, requirements, and signature” Inside Cover Tape the blue paper with: “purpose, requirements, and signature” LEFT SIDE HARD COVER SEE EXAMPLE

Tape in next 2 pieces of blue Tape skinny part on top and rubric bottom SEE EXAMPLE

WRITING REFLECTION This is where you are writing the description of your cover. Listen to sample descriptions.

TABLE OF CONTENTS Tape Table of Contents in the next two pages, front and back. We will fill in the Table of Contents as we add assignments/activities.

AFTER TABLE OF CONTENT PAGES NUMBER EVERY PAGE AFTER TABLE OF CONTENT PAGES ALL Pages FRONT AND BACK SEE EXAMPLE

NOW YOU’RE READY TO USE YOUR INTERACTIVE SCIENTIFIC NOTEBOOK!