1. How to create an Interactive Science Notebook (ISN)

2. 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!!!

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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.

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

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

8. 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.

9. 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

10. 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

11. Examples of Student Work

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

13. 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

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

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

16. 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.

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

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