Note-Taking Handbook · Note-Taking Handbook Note-Taking Strategies Taking notes as you read helps you understand the information. The notes you take can also be used as a study guide

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Note-Taking Handbook

Note-Taking StrategiesTaking notes as you read helps you understand the information. Thenotes you take can also be used as a study guide for later review. Thishandbook presents several ways to organize your notes.

Content Frame1. Make a chart in which each column represents a category.

2. Give each column a heading.

3. Write details under the headings.

Combination Notes1. For each new idea or concept, write an informal outline of

the information.

2. Make a sketch to illustrate the concept, and label it.

informal outline

contactforce

gravity

friction

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Types of forces

• contact force

• gravity

• friction

forces on a box

being pushed

NAME GROUP CHARACTERISTICS DRAWING

snail mollusks mantle, shell

ant arthropods six legs, exoskeleton

earthworm segmented segmented body,

worms circulatory and

digestive systems

heartworm roundworms digestive system

sea star echinoderms spiny skin, tube feet

jellyfish cnidarians stinging cells

categories

details

sketch with labels

Make flash cards tohelp you study for atest. Write a concepton one side of eachcard and draw thesketch that goes withit on the other side.Use the cards toreview concepts witha friend.

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