1. Your key to success in 5th grade Science
Scientist Notebooks!
Your key to success in 5th grade Science

2. Have you ever heard yourself say….
I can’t remember what we did in class yesterday
I can’t find my…
Notes, homework, old quizzes…
I’m Sure it’s in….
My locker?
My book bag?
My room?
I was absent last week, did I miss anything?

3. Get it together with your…
Scientist
Notebook

4. REAL SCIENTIST USE NOTEBOOKS!

5. REAL SCIENTIST USE NOTEBOOKS!
Leonardo Divinci
Dian Fossey

6. What’s in a 5th grade Scientist Notebook?
A personalized text book- just for you!
A working portfolio
Class notes
Class work
Labs
Quizzes
Your input
All in one convenient spot!!

7. Notebook Set up Left Side Right Side Pg. # Student Responses
Date Title
Teacher Information

8. Notebook Set up Left Side Right Side
The left side LOVES student work!!
This is the side you can use to show your creativity!!!
This is the OUT PUT page
The right side is RESTRICTED!
Contains only information given by Mrs. Corbin!
Nothing else is on the right side.

9. Right Side The right side belongs to Mrs. Corbin
The right side contains all testable information
Date
Title and Unit
Vocabulary
Class, reading, and discussion notes
Worksheets
Study Guides
Quizzes
Content and Objectives
Other relevant information

10. Right Side Should be completely done.
Should clearly have the title written at the top in the center, the date in the left-hand corner, and the page number in the right hand corner.
All assignments should be in chronological order by the times they were assigned.
All right side assignments should be done ONLY on the right side (unless otherwise instructed).

11. Examples of Right Side Assignments…
Articles
Notes
Graphic Organizers/Thinking Maps
In- Class Assignments
Labs and Lab Notes

12. RIGHT SIDE EXAMPLES

13. Left Side
Left side is to record YOUR thinking, reflections, questions, thoughts, impressions, connections and wonderings.
The left side belongs to YOU!
Apply skills learned in class
Use graphs, charts, diagrams, research
Make connections between new and old learning
Questions
Drawings/illustrations
Classwork
Brain Storming
Foldables
Sketches (related to the topic)
Other relevant information

14. Examples of Left Side Assignments…
All of these can be done for the left side of each right side page. EVERY individual right side page (even if the right side continues to a new page) must have an accompanying left side.

17. FOLDABLES

18. GRAPHIC ORGANIZERS

19. Science Notebook Rules!
No ripped out pages or torn corners
No doodling that doesn’t relate to the notes or topic
Notebook should be used for SCIENCE CLASS ONLY!
Date, Title and page number each page!
ALL entries must go into the table of contents.
All right side pages must have left side pages the following day
Be colorful, creative, and LOVE your notebook!

20. LET’S SET UP OUR NOTEBOOKS!
THE OUTSIDE OF YOUR NOTEBOOK
The words: Scientist Notebook
Your Name
Your homeroom teacher’s name
Class Period that you have science
Your Letter ( Mrs. Corbin will give you letters)

21. LET’S SET UP OUR NOTEBOOKS!
THE INSIDE OF YOUR NOTEBOOK!
Science Notebook rules on the inside cover!
The first page is the Author’s Page (that’s YOU)
We will complete this page at the end.
Author’s Page
Science Notebook Rules

22. LET’S SET UP OUR NOTEBOOKS!
THE INSIDE OF YOUR NOTEBOOK (TURN THE PAGE)
The Table of Contents
Write at the top: Table of Contents
Divide the Page into 4 Sections
The table of contents will take up 4 right side
pages.
The Table of contents will include Date, Title,
Unit and Page Number.
**The table of contents does not need a left side
reflection***

23. LET’S SET UP OUR NOTEBOOKS!
Table of Contents
Date
Title
Unit
Page

24. LET’S SET UP OUR NOTEBOOKS!
Author’s Page
We will create your author’s page today.
The author’s page will be a preview of what we are going to study this year. We will dedicate one section of our author’s page to each unit.
You will create an illustration and put a caption for each unit we will study this year.
Let’s set it up …..

25. LET’S SET UP OUR NOTEBOOKS!
Sample Author’s Page

26. LET’S SET UP OUR NOTEBOOKS!
inquiry
Graphing and classifying
Measurement
SCIENCE
Matter and Chemistry
Energy
Earth and Space
Organisms & Environments

27. WE ARE READY TO BEGIN OUR 5TH GRADE SCIENCE JOURNEY

28. Spend the remainder of class time creating your author’s page& Numbering your pages If you do not finish, you may finish working on this page at home.