1. Learning Target: I will review Ms
Learning Target: I will review Ms. vanderWal’s expectations and apply her guidelines. I will also set up my Science Notebook.
CW: Expectations & Set up Notebook
HW: 1) go to Ms. vanderWal’s web page and check it out… 2) a short message to Ms. vanderWal and 3) get syllabus signed.

2. Interactive Science Notebook Set-Up

3. Labeling Your Tabs
For each unit we study in Science, you will need a different section in your notebook.
In these sections, you will be keeping all Warm Ups, Notes, Daily Activities, Assignments, Tests, Vocabulary, Exit Tickets, etc… (Pretty much anything you do during that unit)

4. 6th Grade Labeling Your Tabs
You will need to have 7 tabs/sections in your notebook. Label them as follows:
Scientific Inquiry
Matter/Chemistry
Water Cycle/Oceans
Food Web
Adaptations
Ecosystems
Conservation

5. 7th Grade Labeling Your Tabs
You will need to have 7 tabs/sections in your notebook. Label them as follows:
Major Geological Events
Geological Time and History
Multiple Lines of Evidence
Cells
Human Body Systems
Photosynthesis & Cellular Respiration
Separations of Mixtures

6. Daily Catch Each week, you are going to be given a “Daily Catch.”
This activity has been created to provide you a place to set academic goals for yourself, a place to reflect on your progress in accomplishing your goals, as well as a place for you to demonstrate/summarize the skills and information that you learned that day.
At the end of the week, you and your parent/gaurdian will reflect on the week.
Logs will be collected each week for a grade.

7. Cornell Notes
Date:
Learning Target/Title:
Subject/Title
Notes or work

8. Vocabulary
At the beginning of Each unit, you will need to print off vocabulary cards from my teacher page.
You will then cut those cards out and keep them in an envelope on that specific units tab in your notebook.
As part of closure, you will take the vocabulary card that we went over that day and draw a picture and write a definition.
The cards will then be placed back into the envelope for games and practice later on in the unit.