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

2. 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

3. SCIENCE NOTEBOOKS

4. 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

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

6. 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

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

8. 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

9. 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
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

10. 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

11. 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

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

13. 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

14. Winner of two Nobel Prizes, 1903 and 1911
Marie Curie
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

15. Barbara McClintok
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

16. Modern Day Use
Then and Now… 16

17. 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

18. 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

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

20. 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

21. 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)

22. Inside Front Cover: Lab Schedule

23. 1-4 Table of Contents (two columns - fold page in half)
_________________ 41
_________________ 42
_________________ 43
_________________ 44
Etc………
Table of Contents.. 1
“ 2 “ “
(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

24. 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…

25. 9-10 Safety contract

26. 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.