I Reflect, Therefore I Own My Learning

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I Reflect, Therefore I Own My Learning

• Interactive Notebooks in the Science Classroom

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Why Are Journals Important?

• Vital function of scientists in any discipline is
  to recording information, data and figures (Gray,
  1988)
• Journals are a means of reference and resource
  (Hyers, 2001)
• Communication tool between teacher/student/parent

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What Good Readers Do

• Activate prior knowledge!
• Good readers always check with their brain
  before reading!
• They make text-to-self, text-to-text,
  text-to-world and text-to-author connections!
  They ask themselves,
• Hey, brain, what do I already know about this?
• Use context clues!
• Good readers sound out words, break words apart,
  and use context clues when they come to a word
  they dont know!

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What Good Readers Do

• Ask questions!
• Good readers STOP and ASK QUESTIONS about what
  theyre reading!
• Create images!
• Good readers make pictures in their heads!
  They visualize!
• Retell or summarize!
• Good readers stick to the important details as
  they retell or summarize the story to themselves
  or somebody else!

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What Good Readers Do

• Make inferences!
• What I Know, What I Read, and Put the Two
  Together!
• Determine the most important idea!
• Read! Stop! Think! Underline the most
  important ideas!
• Self-monitor, self-check, and use fix-up
  strategies!
• Good readers know when they dont understand
  what theyre reading! They dont just keep
  reading! They try to fix the problem!

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Notebook Set-Up

• Identify yourself on Front Cover
• Name
• School year
• Class period/name
• Number bottom corner of pages 1 - 200
• Table of Contents, page 1
• Grading Sheet, inside back cover

You MUST use a stitched, bound composition
notebook!
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Example
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Elements of your Notebook
UNIT 1 NATURE OF SCIENCE

• Unit Title Pages

• Unit Title
• Use the entire page
• Make pictures that relate to what you know about
  the unit
• Tab the page
• Identify unit in TOC

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Elements of your Notebook

• Unit Title Pages
• Left Side/Right Side Orientation

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Example
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Responsibility

• Students MUST bring notebooks to class every day.
  Although homework will not be graded on a daily
  basis, it will be checked for completion.
  Leaving the notebook at home will result in an
  incomplete for the day. If you are absent, it
  is YOUR responsibility to get the days notes and
  assignment from the classroom copy.

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More Examples
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Thanks to other teachers

• http//www.arlington.k12.va.us/instruct/science/mi
  sc/VAST20Pres.ppt
• http//www.rcs.k12.va.us/pfes/teachers20only/Inte
  ractiveNotetaking5B15D.ppt
• http//www.utdallas.edu/dept/SciMathEd/SER/sce5305
  _f03/Interactive_scienceDWR.ppt
• http//taselm.fullerton.edu/ncsm_nctm202006/ellen
  /Presentation20PPT20v.2.ppt