1. Interactive Notebooks
What are they?
Why do your students need them?
“Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.”
- Benjamin Franklin

2. I don’t know how to do my homework!
Have your students ever said…
I can’t find my notes,
homework, etc?
I don’t know how to do my homework!
How do I study for this
quiz or test?
I was out yesterday.
Did we do anything?

3. An Interactive Notebook …
Teaches students to organize and synthesize their thoughts
Accommodates multiple learning styles at one time in (and out) of the classroom
Builds and strengthens student-teacher-parent interaction
Improves classroom management by creating an environment in which students are actively working
Allows for the 4 C’s: Creativity, Critical Thinking, Collaboration, Communication!

4. Interactive Notebook Supplies
PAPER
Index Cards
Colored paper
Sticky Notes
Graph Paper
Composition notebook
ADHESIVES
Miscellaneous
Tape
Glue Sticks
Scissors
Colored pencils

5. How is it organized? Personalized Front Cover Syllabus Rubric
Table of Contents
Units (tabbed)
Standards by unit
Unit Vocabulary
Notes, Handouts, Classwork, etc.
Additional resources
Benchmark results
Pocket Page
Glossary

6. What will it look like in
your class?

7. Simple Foldables Students are taking notes, manipulating information, using vocabulary and creating examples

9. Decide what you want your students to know…
Page creation does not have to be difficult or time-consuming!

10. No loose papers to misplace – homework assignments can be part of notebook.

11. Thinking Maps
A great place to incorporate
a flow map for processes.

13. What else can be included in my INB’s?
Benchmark data
Standards Checklist – progress toward standards during daily Warmups

14. Pockets to hold anything!
Rubrics

17. What have MCHS teachers said about using Interactive notebooks?
My first response to interactive notebooks was “No way! Not something else to annoy us! “ I thought it was going to be a ton of work and I was going to have to change my style of teaching: so not true. I still teach the same exact way. I just add more foldables and keep everything in a Composition notebook. My Geometry students love it. It keeps them more organized and interested in the lesson. I enjoy everything about the INB and think that this will help our students this year & for years to come.
Mrs. Jennifer Plemons
The interactive notebooks are a great way for students to be organized and for us to have a “textbook.” It also gives me a point of reference when the students need to go back and refresh themselves on a topic! I think they are awesome. They have changed the way that I give notes. Foldables are great and are all over the internet, just google it. 
Mrs. Brittney Adams
For me, doing more foldables was something I had to work on, but I believe it has benefited my classroom. Ex: After Christmas break, I didn’t have to reteach the formulas we were using, because the students already had a foldable in their notebook. All we had to do was review using the formula. Years past, students would lose the work notes they had taken. Mr. Matt Harris  

18. What Now?
Explore the many ways interactive notebooks can be used with your curriculum (Online resources, Pinterest, etc.)
As you plan for classes next year, gather standards per unit, vocabulary, and activities that can be modified for the INB
Collaborate with others who have used INB’s - Your peers are your best resources!

19. Helpful Resources
Pinterest
Google
Youtube.com
Teacherspayteachers

20. Questions?