Your New Best Friend! The Interactive Science Notebook Unlocking Science Success Alleghany High School Earth and Environmental Science Fall 2014 Ms. Greene.

Your New Best Friend!

The Interactive Science Notebook

Unlocking Science Success

Alleghany High School

Earth and Environmental

Science

Fall 2014

Ms. Greene

Interactive Science Notebook (ISN) - Your own personalized DIARY of learning about science

-A portfolio of your work in ONE convenient spot. This is great for studying for upcoming quizzes & tests

-A great ORGANIZATIONAL tool that gives you permission to be PLAYFUL AND CREATIVE in your responses without "messing up" your notes.

-Allows you to work like a REAL SCIENTIST!

A student thinking tool An organizer for inquiry questions and what I learned…

A way to access and process the learning utilizing various modalities (writing, drawing, and discussion)

A place for writing rough drafts based on hands-on learning

A formative assessment tool for teachers

Interactive Science Notebook( ISN) Guidelines

ISN’s will increase your understanding of science by:

• using writing as a process for discovery and synthesis of inquiry.

• modeling many enduring functions of scientists – recording information, data, and experimental diagrams.

• improving your ability to organize ideas and information to provide a study reference for each unit, as well as a resource to consult for review for tests, and even in high school as you sequence into Earth Science, Chemistry, Ecology, Biology, and Physics

• demonstrating to your teacher and parents your developing organizational skills, understanding of science concepts and ability to express thoughts and feelings in a variety of ways

• deepening the science skills acquired in prior years by application to 9th grade science

“In a nutshell”... What is the rationale for using interactive science notebooks?

Improve organization skills

Improve critical thinking skills

Express understanding creatively

Record data

Study for tests

Record progress

Communication

Notebooks help us learn!

Impact of Hands-on Science & Science Notebooks on Student Achievement

Research shows that student understanding and literacy skills improve when students do hands-on minds-on science and use

science notebooks to make sense of their science investigations.

The Interactive science notebook is an effective teaching strategy because it turns student notebooks into meaningful and personalized records of learning.

Think as a scientist… record as a scientist… and reflect as a scientist!

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Required Materials :

• 2 composition notebooks

• Handouts and other teacher provided pages may be glued or clear taped in place so that both sides of each sheet are visible at all times. It is important for you to have your own glue stick at all times. Only certain pages will be glued in and the teacher will instruct the student of which ones.

• Organized in the same manner: right side for input (lecture notes, worksheets and informal labs) and the left side for output (drawings and reflections) Each student will have the same thing on the right side pages of their notebooks

Left Side? Right Side? What Goes Where?

Left SideStudent Output

Lots of Color

The brain remembers things in color

better.

Concept Maps Drawings Reflective Writing Questions Data and Graphs Songs Poems Data from

Experiments Cartoons or cartoon

strips Foldables

Right SideTeacher Input/Content

Blue or Black Ink/pencil

Information given in class

Lecture Notes Informal Lab

Activities Video Notes Summaries Textbook Notes Procedures for

experiments Classroom Specific

Information

. The Right Side is for input. This is the side that holds information that I give you.

The Left Side is for output and contains only your reflections about what you have learned. It should be full of color, and it’s the side where you can get creative.

To review…the notebook is divided into TWO sections.

A running list of the work completed in the ISN will be posted on my website

If you are absent, it is your responsibility to copy missed notes into your ISN and be sure that they do the proper reflection for that assignment

1 announced and 1 unannounced notebook check per unit

Bring your ISN with you EVERY SINGLE DAY!

Step 1:

Notebook pages should be numbered consecutively with L and R used for each number; each page titled, dated and learning goal added.

11

R1

L2 R2

L1

Date

Title

Date/ LG

Title Date Title

Date/LG

Title

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

STUDENT work = OUTPUT

RIGHT side is “restricted” to TEACHER INPUT

WARMUP #1 Fill in the missing word.

Decomposer Producer ConsumerPlants are ____. Lions, tigers, and bears are ____. Worms and mushrooms are____

OUTPUT (your interpretation) INPUT (notes from teacher)

The RIGHT SIDE should contain information given from Ms. Greene while we are learning new material. Nothing else should be placed on this page!

The RIGHT SIDE contains all the TESTABLE material.

Teacher guided PowerPoint notes Movie/Video Article Readings Textbook Handouts

The LEFT SIDE belongs to you.

Let your CREATIVITY go wild!

The LEFT side loves color.

The day’s activity is placed on the LEFT or OUTPUT side of the notebook. This section acts as a reinforcement and processing for the RIGHT or LEARNING side.

Graphic Organizers Diagrams/Visual Illustrations

Poems, Song Lyrics Cartoons/Comics

Lab Analysis Advertisements

Brainstorming Mind maps

Concept maps Venn diagrams

Pictures Drawings

Diagrams Writing prompts

Flow charts Homework Songs

Open ended worksheets Self reflections

Labs Quizzes, tests

Mnemonic device Foldables

Vocab. Cartoons Charts & graphs

Write a newspaper article about notes

Write a letter or postcard from a famous scientist

YOUR OPPORTUNITY TO BEAS CREATIVE AS YOU WANTTO BE

Example of Video Response

How will my notebook be graded?

GRADING1 announced and 1 unannounced notebook check each unit Notebooks will be graded on organization, accuracy, creativity and presentation. An important part of your notebook is its visual appearance. Your notebook should be neat! Your personal learning style should be visible throughout.

Note: Grading will not be all or nothing, but if you only partially complete an assignment or it’s of poor quality, you won’t be given full credit.

Grading Rubric

OrganizationUNIT TITLE AND TABLE OF CONTENTSWORK IN IN ORDER

Accuracy“RIGHT SIDE” is ACCURATE “LEFT SIDE” REFLECTION contributes to a better understanding WRITING is in PEN/PENCIL with DRAWINGS in COLOR

Pride in PresentationCOMPLETELEGIBLEPages are NUMBERED and include DATESLearning Goal is posted

Science Notebook Setup

colored pencils

Pens & pencils

NO MARKERS!

Composition Notebook

Highlighters

Scissors

Tape

The name of the course: Earth and Environmental

Science

The words: Interactive Science Notebook

The class period that you have science:

B1, for example

The school year: 2014-2015 Your teacher: Ms. Greene Your name: (self explanatory)

Period ____

2012-2013

Ms Abrams

My Namee

8th Grade

Physical Science

INTERACTIVE

SCIENCE

NOTEBOOK

Earth and Environmental Science

Period ______

2014-2015

Ms. Greene

YOUR NAME

We Are

READY!

Let’s get started!

Get our your ISN.

1.Number ALL Pages in your ISN

Example R1, L1R2, L2, R3, L3

Create a Cover Page

On Page 1 of your ISN, you will create a cover page. A new cover page will be completed for each unit.

Cover Page Title: Unit 1: Scientific Method & Astronomy

You may CREATE and COLOR your cover page now.

You have 10 minutes.

Unit Title

Page Left-Side Items Right-Side ItemsMake a TOC on Pages 2-6

What do I do if I am absent?

If you are absent, it is your responsibility to obtain the assignments from a the website and from the “absent folders”.

Staying current with all entries is vital to your success this year in science.

Make sure your “LEFT SIDE” page entries are helping you to understand the concepts presented in class

Follow the other RUBRIC guidelines

BE COLORFUL & LOVE YOUR NOTEBOOK