Use of Interactive Science Notebooks Enhance Students Organizational Skills
A study source to enable you to be a creative, independent thinker and learner!
Your Interactive Science Notebook (INB) will increase your understanding of science by:
- Using writing as a process for discovery and synthesis of inquiry;
- Modeling many enduring functions of scientists- recording information, data, and experimental diagrams;
- Improving your ability to organize ideas and information;
- Providing a study reference for each unit, a resource to consult for review before standardized tests, and guide you as you make your way to other science content classrooms;
- Demonstrating to yourself and your teachers your developing organizational skills, understanding of science concepts and ability to express thoughts and ideas in a variety of ways.
Implementation of your INB:
- Notebooks should be kept in a spiral notebook, composition book or three-ringer binder. Bring to class every day. It will be damaging to your grade if you forget it, or lose it.
- Pages should be numbered consecutively; each page titled and dated.
- All work (input and output, graded and non-graded) should be in your INB
- A table of contents will be kept in the front of the INB and should be updated continuously. Reserve the first few pages for this purpose.
Challenges or Obstacles:
“Teaching” the students how to properly use the notebooks and encouraging them to understand this is more than just a standard notebook to keep class notes and graded work.
Benefits and Successes:
Students will actively engage with the content outside of the classroom which will increase the understanding of the information and allow students to trigger prior knowledge and outside resources.
Click here for the instructions given to the students
Submitted by: Cresta Hancock, Muncie Central High School
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