1. Warm Up
As you come in, please fill out your planner, sit in your assigned seat, and think about what the 3 learning community as well as school wide expectations are. Be ready to share out with your classmates!

2. Your Key to Success in Social Studies
Interactive Notebook
Your Key to Success
in Social Studies

3. Have you ever heard yourself say . . .
I can't find my . . .
notes, homework, old quizzes . . .
I can't remember what
we did in class yesterday.
I'm sure its in . . .
my locker . . .
my book bag . . .
my room . . .
I was absent last week, did I miss anything?

4. Get it together with your
Interactive
Notebook

5. What is an Interactive Notebook?
A personalized textbook
A working portfolio – all of your notes, classwork, quizzes – in one convenient spot.

6. Left Side – Right Side Orientation
The Left side is “left” for you. This is the side that you can use to show me your creativity.
The Right side is “Restricted” and contains teacher guided notes. Nothing else should be placed on the Right side!!

7. Left Side
The left side belongs to you. It contains your warm-up (question mark) and the day’s activity (light bulb). On this page you may include diagrams, cartoons, drawings, poems, foldables, etc.
Odd Pages

8. Examples of Left Side Assignments
Warm-Up
Webs
Diagrams
Poems
Reflections
Comics

9. Advertisements

10. Illustrated Outlines

11. Sensory Figures

12. Sensory Figures, cont.

13. Concept Map

14. Acrostics

15. Comic Strips

16. Venn Diagram

17. Right Side
The right side belongs to me and should only contain teacher directed guided notes. Nothing else should be placed on this page! The right side contains the notepad icon and will contain all the testable material.
Even Pages

18. Examples of Right Side Assignments
Notes
Study Guides
Vocabulary

19. Student Materials Mead 5 Star Notebook Erasable pens Colored pencils
Glue sticks (2 per month)
Scissors
Highlighters

20. Maintaining the Interactive Notebook
No ripped out pages or torn corners
No doodling that doesn’t relate to notes
Notebook should only be used in Social Studies. (No other classes!!)
Date and number each page

21. “What if I’m absent?”
If you are absent, it is your responsibility to obtain notebook assignments from either
Another student
The sample notebook
Or the teacher
Web page

22. Time to number your pages!
Lay your spiral flat and number the first page 0
Turn the page
Number the left page 1
Number the right page 2
Continue remember that the LEFT pages are ODD and the RIGHT pages are EVEN
Time to number your pages!

23. Ancient History Decorate the page with 5 images Inside cover
Ancient History
Inside cover
Through inquiry learning
and application, students
at SMS will be able to make personal connections to the world around them
Decorate the page with 5 images

24. Title page 2 How maps help us study History
Then highlight the outer edge of the page
Title page 2

25. Title Page 1 Unit Vocab and copy down the following vocab words:
Longitude
Latitude
Hemisphere
Political Map
Physical Map
Thematic Map
Theme
Precise
Interaction
Influence
Primary Resources
Secondary Resources
Oral History
Title Page 1

26. Pretest
Title Page 3

27. Posttest
Title Page 4

28. Warm Ups
Title pages 131 to 140