Interactive Notebook (IAN)

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Interactive Notebook(IAN)

• Setting up your notebook

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Page 1

• Write your full name across the top
• Write 5 things about yourself
• Examples Favorite class, type of music you
  listen to, how many brothers and sisters you have
• Use 4 different colors of colored pencils
• Inside cover will be used for rules, rewards, and
  consequences.

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Page 2

• The Left Side
• What goes on the left side?
• Output the ideas and information that comes
  from your brain! Use color!

• Examples
• Brainstorming
• Concept Maps
• Quick writes
• Graphic organizers
• Data and graphs you create
• Homework
• Classwork activities
• Anything you create

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Page 3

• The Right Side
• What goes on the right side?
• The Input the information that is given to you
  by an instructor or others.
• Use blue or black ink and highlight!

• Examples
• Cornell Notes
• Vocabulary words and meanings
• Lab or activity instructions
• Handouts

Right side
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Page 4

• Various possible uses
• Standards
• Vocabulary
• Lab format

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Page 5, 6, and 7

• Table of Contents

Mark all table of contents pages to page 140.
You will use 3 sides.
Page Left Page Right
8 (2 or 3 word summary of activity) 9
10 11
12 13
14 15



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Last 10 Pages

• Turn to the back of you notebook and count 10
  pages from the back.
• Fold back page and label warm-ups.
• This is where all your warm-ups will be. They
  are written one after the other (do not start a
  new page for each)
• On the first page write Week One Warm-ups in
  the heading area (the large space on top of the
  page)
• Write tomorrows date under the heading (8/15/12)

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Numbering Pages

• Starting on the first page where you wrote 5
  things about yourself, number each side of a page
  in pencil.
• Pages will never be torn out be careful.
• If you do not have enough time to finish
  numbering, please finish for tomorrow.
• You should have about 140 pages numbered.