Setting Up Interactive Science Notebooks

I've had MANY requests in addition to questions from customers in addition to weblog followers well-nigh how I ready my interactive scientific discipline notebooks. Although I know this is non fancy at all, I did a quick video on my iphone in addition to uploaded it therefore that all those people heading dorsum to schoolhouse tin meet how I laid them upward earlier they start the novel schoolhouse year.

Side Note: I apologize for my crazy photographic television set camera asset skills. I was just talking in addition to filming amongst my iphone using 1 hand. You may demand to popular a few Dramamine's first!

Some things I forgot to hash out inward my video:

I ALWAYS brand my ain ISN each schoolhouse year, therefore that it matches what the students receive got exactly. I don't ever accept the notes that my students do, or consummate the labs, booklets, handouts, foldables, etc... but I brand certain that I gum them inward on the right pages. I cannot stress how of import it is to brand certain that all notebooks are the same (you'll meet why on #4 below). I've fifty-fifty blown upward the Table of Contents pages to a poster size therefore that I tin laminate it in addition to championship each page, just similar the students do. This non alone serves to hold everyone on the same page, but it is every bit good helpful when a educatee misses cast - they know where to become to notice out what goes where.
Giving students a run a peril to reverberate on their learning is actually 1 of the cardinal components to interactive notebooks - 1 that a lot of teachers acquire out out, but because I intend they aren't actually certain how to exercise it. I've created ii unlike products that would last neat for this: Admit in addition to Exit Tickets in addition to Admit in addition to Exit Tickets Too!
Because I instruct eighth aeroplane (a tested yr for the state), I receive got to non alone instruct the eighth aeroplane content, but brand certain that I review the content my students learned inward both sixth in addition to seventh grades (because a minor amount of this cloth volition present upward on the test.) A rattling slow agency to implement this reviewing of previous concepts tin last done amongst brusk daily warm-ups. I am working on an entire serial of daily warm-ups to comprehend all of the middle schoolhouse content in addition to I currently receive got ii of the four products completed. To banking concern check out the Daily Science Starters for Middle School CLICK HERE. I created these to last glued into the ISN every bit flaps, therefore that an entire calendar week of warm-ups could last glued onto 1 page of the notebook.
How exercise I aeroplane the interactive notebooks? I've tried many unlike things over the years, but I've establish what industrial plant best for me is an ISN Quiz at the destination of each grading cycle. Since everyone should receive got the same exact information on the exact same page, I exercise a brusk 10 inquiry quiz that asks rattling detailed questions well-nigh cloth that I would await to last inward theri notebooks. These are typically questions that couldn't last answered without the educatee looking straight at the notebook they created. For example, a inquiry mightiness last "On page 33 of your notebook, what give-and-take is inward the sixth blank that you lot filled in?" This just checks to brand certain that the right matter is glued on page 33, they were actively in addition to correctly filling inward their notes inward cast every bit I was teaching, in addition to they carefully read in addition to followed directions. If they don't receive got the right give-and-take every bit the answer, therefore I know they didn't exercise 1 of those three things correctly.
I receive got a few rules that all students must follow:

No staples inward the notebook (glue alone - scotch record on occasion).
No markers inward the notebook. I encourage students to role color (as it tin assist them organize information in addition to ultimately assist them learn), but alone amongst colored pencils or crayons.
We expose ALL of the pages inward the move on corner at the kickoff of the year. Therefore, students are NEVER allowed to tear pages out of their notebooks. This volition crusade all of their page numbers to last messed up.
If you lot run out of room on a page, choke on your writing on a dissever canvas of notebook newspaper or blank white printer newspaper in addition to gum it to the bottom of the notebook page (to extend the page further). This extension tin last folded upward in addition to into the notebook therefore that it doesn't hang out. Students many NEVER just choke on onto to a greater extent than or less other page inward their notebooks. This volition crusade them to last "off" from the balance of the class.

Before setting upward our notebooks, I explicate why in addition to how nosotros role the notebooks amongst a PowerPoint. To thought this PowerPoint, download it HERE from GoogleDocs.

Some links to things I discussed inward the video or things I role inward my notebooks:

rubberbands to agree the notebook together: File Bands or 7" Rubberbands
ISN Table of Contents: HERE inward my Teachers Pay Teachers store
To meet all of my Interactive Notebook Products, CLICK HERE.
6" X 9" envelope I role for storage of minor pieces of newspaper tin last establish HERE.
To banking concern check out my FAVORITE gum bottle cap (perfect for these notebooks) banking concern check out my previous blog postal service HERE.

A few to a greater extent than examples of the types of things I set into the Notebooks:

Foldables in addition to Mini Flip-Out books

Vocabulary Cards (term inward the middle, Definition on left flap, icon on right flap) Everything folds upward nicely on 1 page allowing you lot to gum upward to 8 damage on a page.