Interactive Student Notebook

Interactive Student Notebook

A Key Element to Success In RDG081

Have you ever heard yourself say . . .

Keep it all together with your

What is an Interactive Notebook?

• A personalized, clear textbook• A working portfolio -- all of your

notes, classwork, etc. -- in one convenient spot

Left Side – Right Side Orientation

LEFT SIDE

Left side items are items from the teacher and

text to be . . .

LEARNED

RIGHT SIDE

Right side items are the student’s . . .

REFLECTIONS

Left Side• Left is for learnable content!• The left side “belongs” to Mrs.

Sanders and the text.• The left side has “testable”

information.

Examples of Teacher Left Side Content

• Notes, usually in the Cornell note-taking format

• Handouts• Graphic organizers• Example problems worked out

with written “running” commentary

• Content to go on a math foldable

Right Side• The right is for “reflection.”• The right side belongs to YOU!• The right side is where you record your

PROCESSING of the teacher-provided notes, handouts, etc. (i.e. of the left side items).

Examples of Student Right Side

Work/Products• Guided practice• Graphic organizers• Foldables • Your re-writing of notes into your own

language and/or with illustrations

More Examples of Right Side Work/Products

• Math journal entries (e.g. about real-world math, about the assigned Internet math practice homework)

• Creative math memory hooks• Mental math models (e.g. a story

about “good guys leaving” and “bad guys leaving” to explain pos/neg integer multiplication)

Extra Credit Right Side Work/Products

NOTE: These are graded by detailed rubrics.

1. math riddles (especially for geometry) 2. student-created math games requiring

math expertise (both to create and play the game; can involve dice, spinners, etc.)

3. poems/raps to aid memory of concepts or algorithms

4. etc.

sample

re-write of

class notes

into right-side

MISN format

. . . in your own language!

source: http://ideasite.net/math/

 

Sample Math Memory Hook with Illustration

source: http://ideasite.net/math/

 

Sample Foldables

Sample Venn Diagram

Sample

Student Supplies• Math textbook• One-inch binder (math-class-only)• M.I.S.N. = a plastic or laminated

bradded folder with pockets, filled with 120 pages of loose leaf paper

• Your own “whiteboard” (i.e. a sheet of white cardstock in a heavy duty sheet protector)

• pencil bag of supplies (see next slide)

Pencil Bag Contents• Pencils• Mechanical pencil sharpener (must

catch its own shavings)• Whiteboard marker, red grading

pen• Scissors, protractor, compass,

glue, calculator(TI-73 graphing calculator if possible)

Maintaining the Interactive Notebook

• Date and number each page (L1, R1, L2, R2, L3, etc.).

• No doodling that doesn’t relate to notes• No ripped out pages or torn corners

Test Your MISN Knowledge

Can you mentally fill in the blanks below and mentally “circle” the correct words?

The left side is for _______ _______.

It is for input/output. (circle one) from the

_________.

The right side is for

_____________.

It is for input/output. (circle one) from the

_________.