1. Draw a house the best way you can. (It will be graded)
DO NOW
Hand in your signed policies and procedures (if you have not already done so).
Take out your notebook.
Draw a house the best way you can. (It will be graded)

2. How did you do?

3. How can we make it fair in the future?
WHAT??? Not FAIR??
Why not???
How can we make it fair in the future?

4. Interactive Science Notebooks
Modified from a presentation by
Lisa L. Hansen

5. Agenda Interactive Notebooks Why? How? Set Up Right Side / Left Side
Vocabulary Briefcase
Ground Rules!

6. Purpose for Interactive Science Notebooks for Me (your teacher):
To see how you are learning
To identify your misconceptions
To collect evidence of your growth over time
To develop next steps for my planning and teaching
TUSD Science Resource Center

7. Additional Helpful Hints
I will provide immediate feedback early on by checking on notebooks within the next month.
I will give occasional open notebook quizzes to inspire great notebooks

8. Science Notebook Setup

9. Why are we using science notebooks?
Take notes
Reflect on notes
Record and reflect on data
To study for tests
Record progress
Communicate with others…
Notebooks help us learn!

10. Example of communicating with others: REFLECTION QUESTIONS:
Make a graphic organizer…
What are you curious about?
What would you like to test?
What was the main idea?
What are the important details to remember?
How does this relate to your life?
What don’t you understand?

11. Right Side? Left Side? What Goes Where?
Student Output
Lots of Color
Concept Maps
Warm Ups
Drawings
Reflective Writing
Questions
Data and Graphs
Other
Right Side
Teacher Input/Content
Information given in class
Lecture Notes
Lab Activities
Video Notes
Summaries
Textbook Notes
Data from Experiments/Field
Classroom Specific Information

12. Science Notebook Supplies
glue sticks
scissors
(No staples or white glue)
pens & pencils
composition notebook
colored pencils
NO MARKERS!

13. Getting started - Step 1:
My Name
My Grade
On the cover,
write your name and period.
Science
Notebook

14. Step 2:
Starting with the first page, number the first 50 pages. Numbers should be small and at the top outside corner of every page. 1 2 3

15. At the top of pages 3,4,5, write
Step 3:
At the top of pages 3,4,5, write
Table of Contents 3 4 5
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
(Skip pages 1 and 2)

16. Vocabulary Briefcase
Vocabulary Briefcase

17. Definition Card Set-up:
In your
“own words”
Hypothesis
If....Then….
What I think will happen in the investigation.
Draw a picture
to help you
remember
(front)
(back)

18. Vocab Briefcase Set-up:
NEW
MASTERED