Here Is What You Will Need

Here is what you will need…

• 150-200 page Spiral Notebook (8 1/2" X 11" ONLY—make sure you check the size!!!)
• 3 Glue Sticks
• Scissors
• Colored Pencils or Markers (your choice)
• 2 different colored highlighters

Interactive Notebooks will be used in this class daily to help you learn and remember important scientific concepts. Why do they work? This notebook style uses both the right and left brain hemispheres to help you sort, categorize and be creative with the knowledge you are gaining. The idea behind the Interactive Notebooks is that Left Brained learning (orderly and systematic note-taking primarily) will be done on right hand pages, while Right Brained learning (creative expressions of understanding) will be performed on left hand pages. Using the whole brain in this manner has proven to increase learning tremendously. Right pages are odd, left are even.

LEFT = EVEN RIGHT = ODD

This is a unique means of organizing student work. It is no more work than any other science class. It will dramactially improve student learning! Just watch. The science notebook is a written record of student learning. Expectations are that each student will communicate their understanding of the purpose of the unit as a whole and of individual activities. The students will record (in their own words and drawings) procedures, investigations, experimental design, data collection, conclusions, reflections, and questions for further investigation.
Left Side Items
*The left spiral page demonstrates your understanding of the information from the right side page. You work with the input, and interact with the information in creative, unique and individual ways.
*Every left side page gets used! Always use COLOR...it helps the brain learn and organize information.

Examples of what would go on the left side:
brainstorming, mind mapping, concept maps, Venn diagrams, pictures, drawings, diagrams, flow charts, reflections, writing prompts, riddles, poems, sketches, cartoons, timelines, letter to a friend, vocabulary cards

Right Side Items
*The right spiral page is for writing down information you are given in class. When the teacher lectures, you take notes on the right side. When you take book notes or video notes they go on the right side, ALWAYS!