What is An Interactive Science Notebook? (ISN)
Dear Parents and Students,
We will be using something called an interactive notebook this year in seventh grade science. Interactive notebooks allow you to record information and process it to improve your level of understanding. As you learn new ideas, you will use several types of writing and graphic techniques to record this information. Then you will do something with those ideas. This process will get you to use critical-thinking skills to organize and process information. As a result, you can become more creative, more independent thinkers, and you will have a deeper understanding of what you are learning and how you are learning. By using this process, you will develop graphic skills which will allow you to express ideas in the way you will best understand.
We do this because:
The purpose of the interactive notebook is to enable you to be a creative, independent thinker and writer. Interactive notebooks will be used for class notes as well as for other activities where you will be asked to express your own ideas and process the information presented by this class. As you work with the notebook, it becomes a portfolio or your work, thoughts, and beliefs. This notebook is different from traditional notebooks due to the fact that it provides activities of a variety of learning styles, mixture of the Multiple Intelligences and Learning Styles, and tasks all geared to how our brains work best.
How Can I Make Up Work from Absences?
Simple. Just make an appointment with me before or after school, or even during lunch, to borrow my teacher's notebook to copy what you missed. You MUST make this work up according to Ben Franklin's absent work policy, which means you will not get full credit until and unless the absent pages are made up in time.
We will be using something called an interactive notebook this year in seventh grade science. Interactive notebooks allow you to record information and process it to improve your level of understanding. As you learn new ideas, you will use several types of writing and graphic techniques to record this information. Then you will do something with those ideas. This process will get you to use critical-thinking skills to organize and process information. As a result, you can become more creative, more independent thinkers, and you will have a deeper understanding of what you are learning and how you are learning. By using this process, you will develop graphic skills which will allow you to express ideas in the way you will best understand.
We do this because:
- Writing down lecture notes does not mean that you have learned the information.
- You must actively do something with the information before you really understand it.
- You will organize as you learn. You will record ideas about every activity that you engage in during a unit. You will use organizational techniques such as topic headings, colored highlights, and different writing styles to synthesize concepts.
- It gives you permission to be playful and creative in your responses without “messing up” your notes. When you are creative or truly “experience” the information, you will remember more.
- It serves as a reminder to us teachers to give you time to absorb ideas as we go. If we see a blank left-hand page that tells us that we are providing too much information without giving you enough time to process the material.
- You are thinking about the way you are thinking! This is called metacognition.
- The notebook serves as a wonderful study tool to help you prepare for your tests in class and for your state tests. THIS NOTEBOOK TEACHES YOU HOW TO STUDY!!!
The purpose of the interactive notebook is to enable you to be a creative, independent thinker and writer. Interactive notebooks will be used for class notes as well as for other activities where you will be asked to express your own ideas and process the information presented by this class. As you work with the notebook, it becomes a portfolio or your work, thoughts, and beliefs. This notebook is different from traditional notebooks due to the fact that it provides activities of a variety of learning styles, mixture of the Multiple Intelligences and Learning Styles, and tasks all geared to how our brains work best.
How Can I Make Up Work from Absences?
Simple. Just make an appointment with me before or after school, or even during lunch, to borrow my teacher's notebook to copy what you missed. You MUST make this work up according to Ben Franklin's absent work policy, which means you will not get full credit until and unless the absent pages are made up in time.
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