Canyon Hills MS Notebook set-up

Introduction• Notebooks used to be places that

students wrote occasional notes, stuffed handouts, and perhaps referred to before a test when all other options failed.

• Interactive notebooks promote organization, engage students, and encourage students to process information, combine words and visuals, become a working portfolio, and demonstrate critical thinking.

They can….• Transform written concepts

into visuals.• Find main points.• Organize events.• Draw whatever illustrations

that make sense to them.• Personalize notes.

Interactive Notebooks…• Organize the student.• Help students sequence

assignments.• Encourage pride in student

work.• Facilitate cooperative

interaction.• Appeal to multiple

intelligences.• Provide opportunities to spiral

instruction and facilitate learning.

Interactive Notebooks…• Are colorful with diagrams, bullets, and

arrows• Are presented in a unique, personal style• Have key ideas that are underlined in

color or highlighted• Have Venn diagrams that show

relationships• Have cartoon sketches that show people

and events • Have timelines that illustrate chronology• Have arrows that show relationships

Why Interactive Notebooks?• Students use both their visual and

linguistic intelligences• Approach understanding in many

ways• Use many types of writing and graphic

techniques• Each student can select their best

medium to explore and learn new content

• Note taking becomes an active process

Why Interactive Notebooks?• Students are invited to take notes- it’s

fun!• Students will read their notes- they

have to in order to process for the left side

• Students will be working with the information which facilitates learning

• Students will be involved with the content

• The notebooks help students to systematically organize as they learn

• Organization is key to the notebook

The Set Up• Right-Side (Input)– Teacher involvement (given

information)• Lecture notes• Handouts• Vocabulary• Basic knowledge questions• Reading notes• Nonprint source notes

• Notes from– Powerpoints–Movie/Video– Article Readings

• Scientific vocabulary exercises

• Lab procedures• Study Guides

The Set Up• Left Side (Output)

– Student involvement (showing understanding and creativity)• Brainstorming• Concept maps• Questions• Descriptions• Venn diagram• Cartoons• Riddles• Songs/poems• Metaphors/similes• Writing (reflection/analysis)

The notebook is divided into TWO sections. LEFT side “loves”

YOUR work = OUTPUT

RIGHT side is “restricted” to Teacher’s INPUT

WARMUP #1 Fill in the missing word.Decomposer Producer Consumer

Plants are ____. Lions, tigers, and bears are ____. Worms and mushrooms are____

Scissors

colored pencils

Erasable pens & pencils

1- SUBJECT composition

Notebook

Glue stick(several thru the

year)

HIGHLIGHTER

• Begin numbering with #1 as the first right hand page.

• Glue top of the Table of Contents to the outside edge of the front cover.

• Glue the Output and Input sheets to pages zero and one respectively 1Tabl

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s Output Input

Notebook Set-Up

• The rest of the handouts are numbered.

• Glue them onto the appropriate pages.

• Hint: Odds should be on the right hand side.

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Page Item11

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InputOutput

Interactive Notebook