Your Guide to using

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Your Guide to using Interactive Notebooks
Sally Creel Science Supervisor
sally.creel_at_cobbk12.org
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Essential Question

• How do I use interactive notebooks to engage
  students and maximize learning in my classroom?

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What are Interactive Notebooks?

• Notebooks are a highly individualized way for
  students to interact with
• The content/concepts being learning
• Themselves and their thinking
• The teacher

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The Process

• Can be challenging
• Takes a bit of patience
• Requires modeling, modeling, modeling
• Must consistently be reinforced
• Learning curve for both the teacher and the
  students

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The Payoff

• Students are able to organize their work
• Uses reading strategies within a content area,
  such as science, social studies or math
• Helps students ( teachers) distinguish between
  what they know and what needs more attention

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And Finally

• Students make their own meaningful connections
• It encourages pride in student work
• It encourages cooperative learning
• It appeals to multiple intelligences
• The kids love it and learn so much!

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Why Interactive Notebooks?

• The format is engaging to multiple learning
  styles
• Visual, kinesthetic, linguistic, and more
• Encourages application of writing strategies in
  variety of contexts
• Facilitates higher order and independent thinking

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Benefits over time

• Notebooks become a portfolio on individual
  learning and a record of each students growth.
• Teachers, students, and parents can review a
  students progress in writing, recording,
  thinking, and organization skills.

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How is the Notebook assessed?

• There are multiple assessment options
• Formatively
• Progress monitoring daily/weekly/spot check
• Provide commentary about a concept or written
  response
• Summatively using a rubric
• Individual assignments basis
• Selected sections assessed for conventions

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No one Right way!

• Just like writing a storythere are any number of
  procedures, techniques, components, and elements
  to use when creating interactive notebooks with
  your students.
• They should be a reflection of your classroom and
  style of teaching learning

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How Do I Get Started?

• At least one month in advance, identify a subject
  and concept with which to begin
• As you plan your upcoming unit of study, create a
  model interactive notebook your would like your
  students to create.
• Identify necessary concepts, materials, and
  procedures you are going to use.

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What Students Need

• The notebook-loose leaf paper in a three pronged
  folder, spiral notebook, or composition book
• Pencils, regular and colored
• Liquid glue, a glue stick, or tape
• Scissors
• Paper, graphic organizers, assessments, etc
• Grading expectations

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Notebook Components

• Personalized Unit Title Page
• Table of Contents
• Standards
• Unit EQs
• Vocabulary Activities
• Graphic Organizers
• Foldables
• The list goes on

Each students notebook should be unique! They
may have similar assignments, but they should
LOOK different! Say No! to cookie cutter
notebooks!
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Lets Get Started!