1. Warm Up
1. Finish your lab safety poster.
2. Make two piles at your table: one of lab
safety contracts and one of lab safety
posters.
3. Number the front and back of all pages of
your notebook starting with page one.

2. Unlocking Science
Success
INTERACTIVE SCIENCE
NOTEBOOK

5.  A interactive notebook (ISN) your own
personalized DIARY of learning about science
 A portfolio of your work in ONE convenient
spot. This is great for studying for upcoming
quizzes & test
 A great ORGANIZATIONAL tool that gives
you permission to be PLAYFUL AND
CREATIVE in your responses without "messing
up" your notes.
 Allows you to be like a REAL SCIENTIST!

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8.  The Left Side is for LEARNING. This is the
side that holds information that I give you.
 The Right Side is for REFLECTION and
contains only your reflections about what you
have learned. It should be full of color, and
it’s the side where you can get creative.
The notebook is divided into TWO sections.

9.  The LEFT SIDE should only contain
information given from Mrs. Wilson
while we are learning new material.
Nothing else should be placed on this
page!
 The LEFT SIDE contains all the
TESTABLE material.
Even Pages = 2,4,6,8..YOU KNOW IT.

10.  Date
 Warm Up
 Essential Question
 Notes from
– Teacher guided PowerPoint notes
– Group collaboration notes
– Movie/video
– Article/textbook readings
 Vocabulary words
 Lab procedures
 Study Guides

13.  The RIGHT SIDE belongs to you.
 On this page you may include diagrams,
cartoons, drawings, poems, foldables, etc.
Let your CREATIVITY go wild!
 The RIGHT side loves color.
ODD PAGES = 1,3,5,7…YOU GOT IT..

14. The day’s activity is placed
on the RIGHT or
REFLECTION side of the
notebook. This section acts
as a reinforcement and
processing for the LEFT or
LEARNING side.

15.  Graphic Organizers
 Diagrams/Illustrations
 Poems, Song Lyrics
 Cartoons/Comics
 Lab Analysis
 Advertisements
 Etc.
YOUR OPPORTUNITYTO BEAS CREATIVE ASYOU WANT
TO BE

18.  Each unit will start
with a cover page to
introduce the new
unit. This will go on
a right hand page.
 Like all right side
pages, it should be
colorful and
illustrated.

19. colored
pencils
Pens &
pencils
NO MARKERS!
3-subject Spiral
Notebook
Highlighter
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Scissor
s
Tape

20.  The name of the course:
– Earth Science
 The words:
– Mission Log
 The class period that you have
science:
– 3rd
period, for example
 The school year: 2013-2014
 Your teacher: Mrs. Wilson
 Your name: (self explanatory)
My Name
My Grade

21. MISSION
LOG
EARTH SCIENCE
YOUR NAME
Your Class Period
Mrs. Wilson
2013-2014

22. Left-Side
Items
Page Right-Side
Items
Page
1 Left Side Info 4 1 Right Side Info 5
2 1st
Semester
Syllabus
6 2 Rocks Unit
Cover Page
7
3 8 3 9
4 10 4 11
5 12 5 13
6 14 6 15

23.  No RIPPED OUT pages or torn corners
 No DOODLING that doesn’t relate to science
 Notebook should be used for SCIENCE CLASS
ONLY
 NUMBER each page
 All entries must go into the Table of Contents
 BE COLORFUL & LOVE YOUR NOTEBOOK

25.  Many thanks to these wonderful teachers for
creating wonderful POWERPOINT slides
from
– Barbara Zimmerman, adapted from her original
presentation
– Annette Holder, rockin’ Science
– Doug Saunders, bringing History Alive!