NEST Day 4: Focused Notes

Revisit notes Introduce Costa’s Levels of Inquiry Practice writing questions

Today’s Goals

Focused Notes are MANY things… A way to collect information in class A way to interact with the information you

learned (today’s focus) A way to collaborate with peers A tool to help you study information

What are Focused Notes?

Previously we… Reviewed note taking and reading tips Read a text independently Wrote our own Focused Notes Collaborated with a partner to check our notes

Please take out… Your Policies and Procedures Your Focused Notes PINK handout Focused Notes from previous days

Let’s Review

Use your PINK handout page and turn to “Costa’s Levels of Inquiry”

Today you will be focusing on the different levels of inquiry questions that you can use in your Cornell Notes

Preparing to Write Questions

There are 3 Levels to Costa’s Levels of Inquiry

Each one asks for a different type of thinking

The type of question you ask determines the type of thinking you will do

Preparing to Write Questions

The type of question you write, will largely depend on the type of information you’d like to discover.

LEVEL 1 questions are “knowledge gathering” questions. --- You either know it or you don’t They are more FACT-based.LET’S PRACTICE…

Preparing to Write Questions

Level 1 questions for this picture include…

The questions asked require you to reply with facts. Can you think of any more possible level 1 questions?

Preparing to Write Questions

What animal is this?

How many

animals are in the picture?

Where are the penguins?

LEVEL 2 questions are… “processing” questions Taking facts and grouping, sorting, comparing,

analyzing, explaining, and prioritizing them.

LET’S PRACTICE…

Preparing to Write Questions

Level 2 questions for this picture include…

The questions asked require you to take the facts and use them . Can you think of any more possible level 2 questions?

Preparing to Write Questions

What is the difference

between the left

penguin and the

right penguin?

How are these

penguins’ adaptations suitable to

their environment?

LEVEL 3 questions are “application” questions. --- Taking facts/ information and…

applying it to a new situation judging/predicting an outcome

They require more understanding of the information, rather than just “knowing” it.

LET’S PRACTICE…

Preparing to Write Questions

Level 3 questions for this picture include…

The questions asked require you to apply the facts in new ways. Can you think of any more possible level 3 questions?

Preparing to Write Questions

How would these

penguins’ behaviors

change if they were

placed in an extremely

cold climate?

If you could

write a caption for this picture,

what would it be and why?

Let’s Practice using this picture…-Collaborate and think of Level 1 Level 2 and Level 3 questions

Preparing to Write Questions

Let’s APPLY our new knowledge..

Before writing your questions, you need to review your notes and ask yourself- If these (the notes side/ right side) are the

answers, what are the questions?

Preparing to Write Questions

QUESTIONS NOTES

What resources does the school website provide?

What are the most important website resources for student?

SCHOOL WEBSITE- www.tustin.k12.ca.us/domain37• Provides info. and resources

• Homework posted • AR lists provided• Calendar of school events• Staff contact info.

Writing Questions

Can you think of other questions that we can generate from the notes?

Writing QuestionsQUESTIONS NOTES

create questions for the notes-

END of QTRS/ SEM 10 wk qtrs Grade for progress every 5 wks

1st qtr ends 11/72nd qtr/1st sem ends 1/293rd qtr ends 4/24th qtr ends 6/18

Report cards sent home 1 wk after end of qtr

TODAY we… Revisited notes Introduced Costa’s Levels of Inquiry Practiced writing questions

NEXT TIME you will… Create more questions and write a summary

Today’s Goals