Interactive Student Notebook A Key Element to Success In RDG081

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What is an Interactive Notebook? A personalized, clear textbook A working portfolio -- all of your notes, classwork, etc. -- in one convenient spot

Left Side – Right Side Orientation L EFT SIDE Left side items are items from the teacher and text to be... LEARNED R IGHT SIDE Right side items are the student’s... REFLECTIONS

Left Side Left is for learnable content! The left side “belongs” to Mrs. Sanders and the text. The left side has “testable” information.

Examples of Teacher Left Side Content Notes, usually in the Cornell note- taking format Handouts Graphic organizers Example problems worked out with written “running” commentary Content to go on a math foldable

Right Side The right is for “reflection.” The right side belongs to YOU! The right side is where you record your PROCESSING of the teacher- provided notes, handouts, etc. (i.e. of the left side items).

Examples of Student Right Side Work/Products Guided practice Graphic organizers Foldables Your re-writing of notes into your own language and/or with illustrations

More Examples of Right Side Work/Products Math journal entries (e.g. about real- world math, about the assigned Internet math practice homework) Creative math memory hooks Mental math models (e.g. a story about “good guys leaving” and “bad guys leaving” to explain pos/neg integer multiplication)

Extra Credit Right Side Work/Products NOTE: These are graded by detailed rubrics. 1.math riddles (especially for geometry) 2.student-created math games requiring math expertise (both to create and play the game; can involve dice, spinners, etc.) 3.poems/raps to aid memory of concepts or algorithms 4.etc.

sample re-write of class notes into right-side MISN format... in your own language! source: /

Sample Math Memory Hook with Illustration source:

Sample Foldables

Sample Venn Diagram

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Student Supplies Math textbook One-inch binder (math-class-only) M.I.S.N. = a plastic or laminated bradded folder with pockets, filled with 120 pages of loose leaf paper Your own “whiteboard” (i.e. a sheet of white cardstock in a heavy duty sheet protector) pencil bag of supplies ( see next slide )

Pencil Bag Contents Pencils Mechanical pencil sharpener (must catch its own shavings) Whiteboard marker, red grading pen Scissors, protractor, compass, glue, calculator(TI-73 graphing calculator if possible)

Maintaining the Interactive Notebook Date and number each page (L1, R1, L2, R2, L3, etc.). No doodling that doesn’t relate to notes No ripped out pages or torn corners

Test Your MISN Knowledge Can you mentally fill in the blanks below and mentally “circle” the correct words? The left side is for _______ _______. It is for input/output. (circle one) from the _________. The right side is for _____________. It is for input/output. (circle one) from the _________.