What is the Interactive Notebook?

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What is the Interactive Notebook?
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Interactive Notebook

• Allows students to record information about
  history in an engaging way. They can
• Transform written concepts into visuals
• Find main points of a political cartoon
• Organize historical events into a topical map
• Draw whatever illustration that makes sense to
  them
• Personalize the historic event

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Interactive Notebooks

• Organize the student
• Help students sequence assignments
• Encourage pride in student work
• Facilitate cooperative interaction
• Appeal to multiple intelligences
• Provide opportunities to spiral instruction and
  facilitate learning

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• Many student notebooks are drab repositories of
  information filled with uninspired, unconnected,
  and poorly understood ideas.

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Interactive Notebooks

• Are colorful with diagrams, bullets and arrows
• Are in pencil and crayon
• Are presented in a unique, personal style
• Key ideas are underlined in color or highlighted
• Venn diagrams show relationships
• Cartoon sketches show people and events
• Timelines illustrate chronology
• Arrows show relationships

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Interactive Notebooks Require

• Recording history in an engaging way
• Use several types of writing and innovative
  graphic techniques to record history
• Force students to process these ideas
• They might transform written concepts into
  visuals
• Find the main idea of a political cartoon
• Use a graphic organizer to place historic events
  in a relational way
• Encourage the use of critical thinking and be
  more creative, independent thinkers

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What students need

• Notebook, pencil, colored markers or crayons,
  highlighters
• They might use scissors, glue stick, and more
  colored pens

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Interactive Notebooks encourage

• Notes to be organized
• Logically ordered
• Information processing in the students brain
• Better understanding of history

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Interactive Notebook

• On the right side record your notes in normal
  wayteacher input side
• On the left sidestudent output side
• Translate your note material into a
• Drawing
• Graphic organizer
• Mind map
• Picture sentence

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Right Side/Left Side
Left Side Students Process New Ideas Reorganize new info in creative formats Express opinions and feelings Explore new ideas Right Side Teacher Provides New Info Class Notes Discussion Notes Reading Notes Handouts with new info
Structured Side
Creative Side
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Right Side

• Opportunity for teacher to model for students how
  to think graphically
• Teacher organizes the common set of information
  that all students must know

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Left Side

• Requires students to process information
• Requires students to actively do something with
  the information to internalize it
• Gives students permission to be playful,
  imaginative, experimental, creative
• Allows various learning styles to process
  information

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Sample
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What can go in it????

• Anything
• Drawings
• Poetry
• Raps
• Graphic organizers
• Cartoons
• Maps
• Charts and graphs
• Invitations
• Letters from famous people

Let your imagination go!!! Be creative!
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Why Interactive Notebooks?

• Students use both their visual and linguistic
  intelligences
• Approach understanding in many ways
• Use many types of writing and graphic techniques
• Each student can select their best medium to
  explore and learn new content

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Why Interactive Notebooks?

• Note taking becomes an active process
• Students are invited to take notesits fun!
• Students will read their notesthey have to in
  order to process for the left side
• Students will be working with (rehearsing) the
  information which facilitates learning
• Students will actively be involved with history

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Why Interactive Notebooks?

• Notebooks help students to systematically
  organize as they learn
• Organization is key to the notebook
• Concepts like
• Table of Contents
• Numbering pages
• Recording SOL numbers
• Topic headings
• They stress the organization of a book

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Why Interactive Notebooks?

• Notebooks become a portfolio of individual
  learning
• These are personal
• Creative
• They record student growth in history
• They show progress
• They serve as a chronological record of the
  learning and are great for review

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Examples from History Alive!
Mosaic
Poem
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Historical Caricature
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Pictowords
SilhouetteMind Notes
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Annotated Slides
Annotated Illustrations
CD Covers
Provocative Statements--opinions
T-charts
Illustrated Outlines
Tables
Illustrated Dictionaries
Facial Expressions
Postcards
Illustrated Timelines
Wheels
Perspectives
Report Cards
Annotated Maps
Charts and Graphs
Mosaics
Posters
Book Covers
Advertisements
Collages
Flow Charts
Invitations
Cartoons or Comic Strips
Eulogies
Historical Journals
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Sources

• History Alive. Interactive Notebook. Palo Alto
  Teachers Curriculum Press. 1999.
• History Alive. Six Powerful Teaching Strategies.
  Palo Alto Teachers Curriculum Press. 1999.
• History Alive Website. http//www.historyalive.co
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