FORENSIC SCIENCE INTERACTIVE NOTEBOOK (IN)
OBJECTIVES:
A) To promote a high level of organization of your daily activities in this class.
B) To help you learn the content in ways which encourage greater visualization and creativity.
Your IN has two “areas”: INPUT and OUTPUT.
If you open your notebook, you see to face-to-face pages, one to your left, and one toyour right. Date them both. Title the LEFT page at the TOP CENTER “Input,” and the page on your right “Output.”
Now what on Earth is meant by “Input” and “Output?”
Examples of Input are; Class notes which I facilitate to you, Key Terms/Vocabulary, Probing Questions, Writing Prompts, Statements of Problems.
Examples of Output are: The DEFINITIONS for Key Terms/Vocabulary, ANSWERS to Probing Questions, YOUR RESPONSES to Writing Prompts, and YOUR SOLUTIONS to Problems.
***IT IS RECOGNIZED that you may need some time and practice for it to become natural for you to know “WHAT” Input and “WHAT” IS Output. However, I DO EXPECT that you will DILIGENTLY at MASTERING this concept.
***For the first several days of class, I will relentless clarify “WHAT” is Input and “WHAT” is Output. Thereafter, I will gradually decrease the intensity with which I clarify until you confidently know what to do on you own. BY MONDAY, 09/28/09, I EXPECT THAT MY NEED TO CLARIFY WILL COME TO AN END!
FORENSIC SCIENCE (FS) EXPECTATIONS
Some of us have worked together, and some of us have not. Most of you are Seniors, and will be off to college before you know it. Even if you will enter the work force immediately upon your Graduation, you MUST realize that you will not work in isolation, and UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES will I accept ANYTHING LESS than your BEST EFFORT.
What does this mean? Firstly, when you enter this classroom, you MUST FORGET ABOUT THE REST OF THE WORLD FOR approximately 54 minutes and focus 5000% on what you need to do in this class.
Some tips for doing so are:
1) Get to your seat immediately after your on-time arrive and start working immediately. Please don’t tell me that you can’t find your notebook, or something to write with. That attitude is complete nonsense. You must know where to find your things before you enter our classroom.
2) Your Interactive Notebook (IN) will form the foundation for everything you do in FS.
3) WHEN YOU TAKE YOUR SEAT, YOU MUST:
A) Write the Objectives at the top of your INPUT page.
B) Write the SSS Benchmarks below your Objectives.
C) Begin the first class activity…Part of mastering the ART of maintaining your IN will be determining what is Input, and what is Output. For example, your KEY TERMS and DEFINITIONS are Input, but SENTENCES IN YOUR OWN WORDS using them are Output because YOU CREATE THEM. Because your Input and Output pages face each other, your KEY TERMS and SENTENCERS, or a WRITING PROMPT and your response to it, must be written DIRECTLY opposite each other on these neighboring pages.
FOR EXAMPLE:
PAGE 1 FOR 08/24/09:
08/24/09INPUT
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Objectives:
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2)
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Benchmarks:
1)
2)
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Key Terms:
a) Forensic Science: A broad field in(à) which the systematic application of the scientific method is used to locate physical evidence which provides legal evidence for the identification of a person, or object associated with a criminal, or non-criminal event.
(SENTENCE on OUTPUT page directly across from above arrow.) / 08/24/09
OUTPUT
Ideally, you should write your sentence for the key term “forensic science” directly across from its definition below. However, in this case, if you wish to write your sentence at the top of this output page to save paper, I will understand.
PAGE 2 FOR 08/24/09:
08/24/09INPUT
Notes: Notes are always INPUT!
Writing Prompt: The prompt itself goes
HERE in INPUT. / 08/24/09
OUTPUT
Writing Prompt Response: Your RESPONSE to the Writing Prompt goes HERE in OUTPUT.
ADDITIONAL CONTENT FOR YOUR OUTPUT PAGES:
a) Clip HANDOUTS to an OUTPUT PAGE.
b) Place RETURNED work in an organizational folder in DATE ORDER.
b) Concept maps, sketches, poems, mnemonic devices, and other examples of your creative efforts to learn and understand the day’s concepts.
3) Amplify your curiosity to help you think like an Investigator. We will be doing a variety of different types of Projects. Each type of Project is, in fact, a “Lab.” We will be defining physical areas of our Campus as a “Crime Scene,” then measuring the dimensions of these areas and documenting the layout in print. We will process numerous types of evidence which are manifest in criminal and noncriminal contexts. We will critically analyze classic true crime films for how the jurors cope with various types of evidence. We will critically analyze cases in which persons have been wrongfully charged or convicted.