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Interactive Interactive Notebooking with Patty Korman 8th grade science Bunn Middle School

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Interactive Interactive

Notebookingwith Patty Korman8th grade science

Bunn Middle School

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Why?• Improve organizational skills!• Provide a great study tool!• Say hello to students who are engaged, having fun

and OWNING their work!!!• Notebook = portfolio for parent/student

conferences• Say goodbye to “what did I miss yesterday?”• Say goodbye to Swiss cheese grade book matrices!!!• Looking for EASY formative assessment?

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What?• It’s whatever YOU want it to be!• Essentially everything gets attached in the

notebook. Imagine…no more lost work!• Teacher input (notes) goes on the right

side and student output (processing activities) go on the left.

• It becomes the ultimate study guide and a portfolio of student work because… IT’S ALL IN THERE!

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Lesson ExamplesLEFT SIDE Processing activities incl:• Graphic organizers• Foldables• Lab reports/graphs• Manipulatives• Writing response to

prompts or open-ended questions

RIGHT SIDE Teacher input • Notes• vocabulary

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Resources• My FAVORITE (don’t know how

I lived without it) PINTEREST• Good ‘ole Google• Teachers Pay Teachers• The Science Spot• Various Blogs including:

– Everybody’s a Genius (for Math)– I’m Lovin’ Lit (ELA)

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Supplies• Composition Notebooks• System to easily account for supplies• Pens – red, blue & black • Highlighter• Sharpie• Scissors• Colored pencils• Handheld sharpener• Glue*• Tape*• Stapler(s)*

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Time Management

• I work WITH the students so I can allow a FAIR amount of time for each task.

• I check yesterday’s work while they are doing their bellwork (more on that to come).

• Students know where to get materials for the day & they get to work on cutting/gluing as soon as their bellwork is completed.

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Set Up – Day 1• I try to have the notebooks pre-purchased and the

bindings in color-coded duct tape so that we can begin working in them on the first day of school!

• I go over procedures and how the supplies work.• We glue the Rules & Grading Rubric in the inside

front cover• We glue an envelope in the inside back cover to

put unfinished work in at the end of class.• Page 1 – Lab Safety Info• Pages 2 & 3 – set up the Table of Contents• Number the pages – left even; right odd

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Table of Contents

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Classwork Grades

• I do grading (for the previous day’s work) while students are doing their daily bellwork (in a separate folder) at the beginning of class.

• This allows me to check in with each individual student and check for understanding. Often if I notice a couple students just aren’t “getting it” I will pair them up with a student that does for the remainder of the bellwork/grading time.

• I use a simple rubric so students can grade their own work. The rubric is glued in the front inside cover of the notebook.

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Cheating• Cheating for ISN effectively looks like

copying another students work in its entirety.

• When I catch them I give them a zero for that day’s work. They are warned in advance just so there is no surprises or “I didn’t knows.”

• I have had to do it and it is effective.• The zero gets averaged into their weekly

classwork grade. So far it’s only taken one to nip that problem in the bud.

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What did I miss?• Never. Hear. Those. Words. Again.• Students already know where to get the materials they

need for each activity and their lab partner already knows how to do it!

• It is the student’s responsibility to show you they have done their makeup work when you come to check their notebooks the next time.

• If they fail to do the makeup work by the time you register a classwork grade for that week it gets averaged in as a zero.

• This teaches them that makeup work is THEIR RESONSIBILITY! And those that care will be sure to do it!

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Summative Grades

• Students are assessed by frequent (weekly, sometimes biweekly) small (5-10 question) quizzes.

• The information is DIRECTLY from their notebook and I tell them well in advance and I tell them EXACTLY what is on the quiz and what the format is (matching, labeling, multiple choice, etc).

• Attentive students LOVE this because as long as they prepare they are guaranteed to ace it!

• At the end of the grading period I drop the lowest 1 or 2.

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Weekly ScheduleA weekly schedule looks something like this typically:Mon. – Introduce New Material (right side)Tues. – Left side processing activityWed. – Quiz, Next New Material (right)Thurs. – Left side processing activityFri. – Quiz, Next New Material (right side)• Days are added at the beginning of a unit for an

overview (such as a video & vocabulary intro) and at the end of a unit for review.

• Some material (like a lot of chemistry topics) have proper lab work AND processing activities in which case there would be an extra day in between quizzes.

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Cumulative Summary

• At the end of each unit I give a cumulative test that allows students to demonstrate that they have gone back and learned the concepts they didn’t grasp for the quiz (dropped quiz grades).

• Cumulative tests are multiple choice and in the format in which they will encounter them on the EOG

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A word on Glue• Do NOT use glue sticks!• Glue WILL be a nightmare…AT FIRST…but…you

will quickly learn who your “glue monsters” are and you will rush to their aide and through practice they WILL get better! I promise!

• You will need to demonstrate on the overhead how to properly glue things MANY times in the beginning but since you are working along with them that won’t be a problem.

• I am considering trying glue sponges this year…an idea from good ole Pinterest of course

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A word on Cleanup

• Make sure that students understand that this is everyone’s space and everyone’s responsibility to keep it clean. Don’t be THAT teacher that the custodial crew hates!

• I tell my students “no one’s leaving until this room no longer looks like a ticker tape parade happened here.”

• I have 12 tiny trashcans stationed around the room for scraps. BEST. INVESTMENT. EVAR!

• Helpful students will empty them for you, sometimes you have to ask them but I’ve never had a child refuse me when I’ve asked.

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A word on Mistakes

• Mistakes are made and students are SO invested in this beautiful book they are writing that they can be known to cause a major melt-down.

• Make sure they know they should NEVER rip a page out…if they need to start over on that page just have them glue a fresh paper on top of the ruined page.

• If students need more room to write on a page have them tape an extension to the bottom of the page which can then fold up.

• Have some White-Out handy. They have to ask for it directly and return it directly.

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A Day in Room 202• Students enter and either I have begun distributing bellwork

folders* or one of them does it. Sometimes they quarrel over who is doing it. They are also passing out notebooks left in classroom.

• As they settle in to do their bellwork I begin circulating with my clipboard that has my grading sheet and I’m looking at yesterday’s work.

• As I’m doing this one bright student has already finished his/her bellwork and is distributing the materials for the day’s activity.

• Students are beginning to cut/glue as everyone finishes bellwork and I finish checking notebooks.

• When I finish we review the bellwork and then I do the cutting/gluing myself. When I am finished so should everyone else be. Most of them are already working on the activity at their lab stations with their lab partner or independently at their desk depending on what my instructions were.

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Tips & Tricks• A full size worksheet can be folded in half

and stapled along the outer edge perfect for those days when you just HAVE to have a sub or the day after some supplies aren’t returned.

• You noticed while checking notebooks that NO ONE is “getting it.” Provide extra practice before the quiz by shrinking a worksheet to fit on half a page and then stapling it over top of the work they’ve previously done on the left page.

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Additions Fun (cheap) additions that add to

the fun and colorful notebooks you are trying to create that appeal to your students inner child:– yarn– curling ribbon– stickers– stamps– colored paper (for foldables for

instance)– photos clipped from magazines