Setting Up Your Interactive Student Notebook (ISN)

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Setting Up Your Interactive Student Notebook
(ISN)

• Your Key to Success
• in Geography/Social Studies

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Have you ever heard yourself say . . .
I can't find my . . . notes, homework, old
quizzes . . .
I can't remember what we did in class yesterday.
I'm sure its in . . . my locker . . . my book bag
. . . my room . . .
I was absent last week, did I miss anything?
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Materials Needed (everyday)

• Composition Notebook
• Pens or pencils
• Colored pencils
• Glue sticks

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What is an Interactive Notebook?

• A personalized textbook
• A working portfolio all of your notes and
  classwork in one convenient spot.

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http//teachersites.schoolworld.com/
webpages/NCouncil/
Your Name Mrs. Council Your Class
Period World Geography 2011-2012
Inside Cover
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Authors Page
You may decorate your page on your own time!
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Rules and Procedures(Write the following word
for word on the last page of your notebook.)

• The ISN must be brought to class every day.
• NO Ripping out pages from the ISN.
• Right side of notebook is used for daily class
  notes Words of Wisdom (WOW).

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Rules and Procedures (continued)

• 4. The top left side is used for the Review and
  Process (RAP). You must write out the daily RAP
  question or prompt before answering it in a
  complete sentence.
• 5. The bottom left side is used to Work it
  Out (WIO) and process the information taught.
• 6. All work done in the WIO must be your own
  work. (This is to assess comprehension.)

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Rules and Procedures (continued)

• 7. You must write the TOPIC , TOPIC TITLE, and
  DATE on the top right hand corner for each entry.
  
• 8. Table of Contents must be filled in with each
  new entry.
• 9. Your ISN is part of the 30 class work grade
  and must be kept up to date.

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Rules and Procedures (continued)

• 10. If you are absent, it is your responsibility
  to copy down the missed assignment from the
  Master ISN Teacher Book or from the teachers
  website.
• 11. No doodling no pictures that are
  irrelevant to the topic.

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WOW

• The WOW is for learning!
• The WOW are your notes from class.
• The WOW has all testable information.

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WIO

• The WIO is for reflection
• The WIO lets me know if you understand what was
  taught. The WIO belongs to YOU and only YOU!
  (Must be your own work!)

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Table of Contents

• Unit One Intro to Geography
• 1. Mapping Skills

Topic Title
Topic Number
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Example of Unit PageIntro to Geography
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Advertisements
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Illustrated Outlines
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Sensory Figures
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Sensory Figures, cont.
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Concept Map
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Acrostics
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Comic Strips
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Venn Diagram