1. Interactive Notebooks
Your Key to Success in Science!!!

2. The importance of a notebook:
Organization!!!
A place to record your data/observations that have been made.
A way to keep track of what you have done.
Future experiments you want to do.
Record of any problems/changes.
Being organized is key. You need a method of keeping track of what you have done in the lab and so forth. A notebook is the one instrument a scientist always uses.

3. What is an interactive notebook?
An interactive notebook (INB) is your own personalized DIARY of learning about science.
A portfolio of your work in ONE convenient spot. This is great for studying for upcoming quizzes & tests
A great ORGANIZATIONAL tool that gives you permission to be PLAYFUL AND CREATIVE in your responses without "messing up" your notes.

4. Notebook rules: Don’t rip out any pages or tear any corners
All handouts MUST BE TAPED IN!
Should only be used for SCIENCE CLASS and COMES TO CLASS EVERYDAY
Each page should have the DATE, PAGE# and TITLE
Write ALL entries in the Table of Contents
Need to bring to class everyday!!!! DON’T LOSE IT!!!!

5. The class period that you have science:
On the front: •
The name of the course:
8th Grade integrated Science –
The class period that you have
science:
– Ex. Period 1
Your teacher:
Ms. Nixon
Your name:
You can add your own pictures
on the front/back of your notebook.

6. Now you will number the first 50 pages.•
Now you will number the first 50 pages.
ODD
EVEN
Contents (pages)
You will be given instructions on how to do this!

7. DATE
Title
PAGE #

8. •
The LEFT SIDE belongs to me, Ms.
Nixon, and therefore should only
contain information given or “input”
from me.
This is the ESSENTIAL information that will DEFINITELY be on a quiz or test. Nothing else should go on this side.

9. y • Notes from • Scientific vocabular exercises All labs Study Guides–
Powerpoints
Movie/Video
Article Readings •
Scientific vocabular
exercises
All labs
Study Guides •

10. •
The RIGHT SIDE belongs to you. Every right side page
gets used!
Output exercises: summaries, thinking maps, tables,
graphs, word webs, concept maps, diagrams, Venn
diagrams, pictures/drawings, brainstorming, poems, quotes, songs, cartoons, thoughts and ideas, BELL WORK.

11. The warm-ups are also
placed on the RIGHT side of the notebook. Warm-ups act as a reinforcement of the lesson. Remember, warm-ups are done in the First 5 minutes of each day! Each day of the week you will have a special warm up or BELL WORK. This is due on the Fridays you have me. If you are absent you will get a 0.