Interactive Notebook

The interactive notebook is to be a portfolio of what you have learned and accomplished in chemistry. It is a spiral bound notebook that will contain all notes, handouts, homework, quizzes, and tests. You will also record, in your own words and drawings your understanding of the material.

Science Interactive notebooks will be used in this class daily to help you and remember important scientific concepts.

• 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.
• It gives you permission to be playful and creative in your responses without "messing up" your notes. When you are creative, you will remember more.

1. Enter an input on the right side of the page (write notes, glue handouts)
2. Process the information by asking yourself these questions and
3. Enter an output on the left side of the page that shows your understanding of the right

Always leave room to trigger your notes.
For more of my fabulous advice on taking notes, click here.

• Time, date, page #’s
• Lecture notes
• Textbook notes
• Notes from films or videos
• Research notes
• Warm-ups
• Teacher questions
• Sample problems
• Worksheets
• Handouts
• Vocabulary words
• Book problems
• Quizzes
• Tests
• Test Corrections
• Guest speakers

Be creative and use at least 4 colors

• Brainstorming
• Reflective homework writing assignments
• Mind Mapping
• Riddles
• Your QUESTIONS
• Cartoons/Doodles
• Poetry & Songs
• Metaphors & Analogies
• Concept Map
• Venn Diagrams
• Dialogues
• Sketches
• Flow Chart/Timeline
• Mnemonic devices

• What’s my purpose for this reading this?
• What do I already know about this topic?
• What’s the BIG picture here?
• What’s the author going to say next?
• What are the “expert” questions?
• What questions does this information raise for me?
• What information is important here?
• How can I paraphrase and summarize this information?
• How can I organize this information
• How can I picture this information?
• What’s my “hook” for remembering this information?
• How does this information fit in with what I already know?
• What more do I need to know?

• Spiral notebook (at least 100 pages)
• Colored pencils
• Highlighters
• Black pen for margin lines
• Straight edge or rule for making margin lines
• Pens/Pencils for note taking
• Glue stick or tape
• Scissors

• The notebook is worth 50 pts (5 homework grades)
• At the end of a unit, a checklist will be handed out for you to make sure you have all assignments and notes
• Notebooks will be collected during the unit test and checked that:
  • Entries made in table of contents
  • Contains items in checklist
  • Triggers and summaries are done for notes pages

1. Put your name on the cover
2. Title the first 2 pages (front and back) as the table of contents.
3. Tape the syllabus, interactive notebook guidelines, test correction guidelines, after the table of contents
4. Tape your periodic table to the back cover
5. Tape the equation sheet to the front cover
6. Number each page
7. Right side: Upper Right hand corner, odd #
8. Left side: Upper left hand corner, even #
9. Tape in the unit outline on the first page of each unit
10. Leave the second page of the unit blank (this will be used for a checklist given out at the end of the unit).
11. Every time you make an entry into the notebook, put the date at the top of the page
12. In black ink, make three columns on right sided pages using the margin lines as guides