Interactive Student Notebooks

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Interactive Student Notebooks
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Notebook Common Attributes

• Left-Side spiral bound
• Minimum of 100 sheets
• Three-hole punched
• Bring to every class
• Organizational pages
• Title and Unit pages

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Title Pages
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Unit Pages
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Right Side Activities

• Teacher Assigned Activities
• Title and Date for each activity
• Notes (discussion, teacher, collaborative,
  reading SQ3R/KWL)
• Historical essays, directed personal responses,
  journaling, lab reports, self-assessments
• Unit standards and outcomes

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• Notebook Assignment US Constitution
• Connections to Today
• Find a newspaper article that describes an action
  carried out by one branch of the US Federal
  Government. Highlight the sentence or sentences
  you think relate to something you have learned in
  this unit. Paste it on the left side. Then, on
  the right side, write a summary of the article
  that includes
• a sentence that states whether the action was
  carried out by the legislative, executive, or
  judicial branch.
• a description of the power(s) that the branch
  exercised.
• an explanation of how the power(s) could be
  checked by one of the other two branches.
• writing that is free of spelling and grammatical
  errors.

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Notes
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Historical Essays
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Left-Side Activities

• Time Out Activities are student created
  activities that are unassigned
• Graphic organizers, webs, Venn Diagrams,
  cartoons, maps, illustrated timelines, dictionary
  entries, equations, newspaper articles/research
• Use lots of color to illustrate

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Mind Notes
Wordgrams
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Point of View Drawings
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Mind Notes
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Mind Notes
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Point of View Cartoon
Illustrated Dictionary
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Equations
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Invitation
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Map
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• Articles and research must be processed
• highlight important parts
• describe the connection

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Evaluation Criteria

• How? Holistic, 61 Rubrics
• How Often? 2-4 weeks or after each
  assignment
• For What? Quality, completeness,
  presentation, organization
• Who? Student self-assess and reflection
  teacher evaluation parent evaluation

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Teacher Considerations

• it takes about 7-12 minutes on average to
  evaluate each notebook (if checking at end of 3-5
  weeks)
• planning is essential before the year begins so
  that instruction in the first month includes a
  review of various ways to express and link
  concepts
• give students time to evaluate others and to
  self-reflect (especially after their 1st check)
• instruct students to skip 5 pages for the table
  of contents after they create their title page