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Interactive Student Notebook

Your Key to Success


in Science
Have you ever heard
yourself say . . .
Get it together with your
What is an Interactive
Notebook?
A personalized textbook
A working portfolio all of your
notes, class work, quizzes in one
convenient spot.
Purpose
Be a creative, independent and
reflective thinker and writer
throughout the year.
Express your own ideas and process
and or apply the information and
skills learned in this class.
You will need to
have a table of
contents that
matches mine. This
is kept in the front
of class.
Date Title
RIGHT PAGE
LEFT PAGE



Student Responses

Pg #

Teacher Information

Right Side
The Right side belongs to Ms. McCoy
The Right side has all testable information
Unit Organizers
Title and Unit pages
Vocabulary
Class, reading, and discussion notes
Worksheets
Table of Contents
Study Guides
Quizzes
Content and Other relevant information
Right Side
1. Should be completely done.
2. Should clearly have both the title of the assignment at
the top and the date. The page should be numbered in the
top right-hand corner.
3. All assignments should be in chronological order by the
times they were assigned. Check the table of contents!
4. All right side assignments should be done only on right
sides unless other instructed by me.
5. Each fully completed and correct right side assignment
earns a grade.
Any missing part (date, title, incomplete, etc.) will cause
points to be deduced.
Examples of Right Side
Assignments
Articles
Notes
Graphic Organizers / Thinking Maps
In-class Assignments
Lab/Recording Sheets
Other relevant information
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, Venn Diagrams, research from
internet
Make connections between new and old learning
Questions
Thinking Maps
Poems
Songs
Homework
Classwork
Brainstorming
Sketches related to learning
Other relevant information
Examples of Left Side
Assignments

Things to keep in mind
when doing left side pages
USE LOTS OF COLOR!!!
(Highlighters, map colors, colored
pens, crayons...no markers!)
Color helps your brain remember.
You must use at least 2 different
colors on left side pages for a
grade.
Examples
Counts for Im done now what?
As well
Fill page with output exercises:
Brainstorming
Concept Maps
Graphic Organizers
Questions you have or dont understand about the
topic
Describe the process in your own words with
pictures
Flow Charts, Sequence Charts
Compare/Contrast Chart
Venn Diagram
KLEW Chart, KWL Chart
Cartoons,Comic Strip
Newspaper or Magazine Articles
Poems, Songs, Raps, Limericks
Create a Story about topic using the unit vocab
words.
Create a Foldable
Charts, Graphs, Tables

Lab Reflections (How could I have done that
differently?)
Mnemonic Devices
Create flash cards for topic
Whats the best way to remember this topic?
Create and solve problems using this information
What do you already know about topic?
Make a visual illustration(drawing) explaining topic
How does this topic relate to your life?
What are the important details to remember?
Weird, bizarre thoughts, ideas or suggestions
Outcome Sentences:
I learned... I was surprised to find... This reminds
me of... I wonder what would happen if... I now
understand..., becauseThe important thing about...
Say it in a Sentence (summarize the entire lesson in
one
sentence)
Here I Stand (tell me how you feel personally about
this topic)
Costas Level Questions

You can always do more than 1 thing on the left side.
All of these can be done for the left
side of each right side page. Every
individual right side page (even for
many pages of the same assignment)
must have an accompanying left side
activity.
Student Materials
3 prong folder(STAYS IN CLASS)
Colored pencils
Highlighters
Glue stick
Maybe tape
Maintaining the
Interactive Notebook
No papers in pockets. Your notebook
will not be graded if you have papers
in pockets. If it is not in the prongs,
it is not graded!!!
No doodling that doesnt relate to
notes. Color on left side pages.
Date, title and number each page
Everyones ISN must MATCH!
Deductions for Lateness and
Lack of Chronological Order
1. If a student has forgotten to bring their notebook for
that particular class when a notebook check is announced,
they may bring it by the very next calendar day, but 30%
will be deducted from their notebook score for that check.
No more than 1 day late.
2. Any right side assignment that is found to be out of
chronological order will cause a 10% reduction in the overall
score of a notebook evaluation.
3. Pages that are not in prongs will not be graded!

Each time the notebook is
evaluated it will constitute a test
grade and a ISN class assignment
grade. Notebook checks are
announced and unannounced and can
occur at any random time during
the school year.
How long should it take
to work on my notebook?
Normally class time is given to work on right side
assignments and sometimes this includes time to
work on a left side. The expectation is that you
will revisit left and right side pages if you finish
early . You can also take notebook home that
evening or the next to review the material by
completing a left side activity of your own
choosing. Once you have a good understanding
of the kinds of left side activities that can be
done, it should take you about 15 minutes to
complete a quality left side. (Im done now what)
Setting up the
Interactive Student
Notebook
THE ISN
Setting up the Interactive Student Notebook


THE ISN
Initial Set Up
1. The notebook should have been set up following
the directions given by Ms. McCoy in class (a copy
of these can be found on our class website).
2. The table of contents at the front of the
notebook and on the Unit Organizer must be
updated regularly and will be checked during each
notebook check.
3. Any missing or incomplete part of these
directions will cause a 25% deduction in the
overall evaluation grade each time the notebook is
evaluated.

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