Interactive Notebooks

1. …and all the awesome things you can do with them. Interactive Notebooks

2. Just Do It! Create an introduction notebook page where you draw and write what you know about the English Reformation. Think Henry VIII, his wives, his religion reform, his background with the Catholic Church

3. Graphically Organized Reading Notes • Have each person at the table choose a different activity: • Illustrated timeline • Sensory figure

4. Processing Assignment • Have each person at the table choose a different activity: • A eulogy for Henry VIII • Political cartoon of English Reformation

5. What is it? • Notebook containing three elements: • Preview assignments (Just Do it!) • Graphically organized reading notes (timeline and sensory figure) • Processing assignments (eulogy and political cartoon)

6. Materials • Notebook or binder-recommended 100 pages • Colored pencils and/or markers • Glue stick

7. Cover page • Have students create a cover page for front notebook, an author page (the student), as well as a cover page for a unit • Unit cover page often a preview assignment

8. Preview Assignment • It could be a prior knowledge showcase, review, or predicting of upcoming unit • Usually short assignments, like a Just Do It

9. Graphically Organized Notes • Innovative way to visually take notes • Information students should be responsible for • Used for recording information in a meaningful and memorable way

10. Processing Assignments • Lesson wrap ups • To synthesize and apply information from lesson or unit • Where teachers should incorporate multiple intelligences and higher order thinking skills

11. Benefits of Notebook • Provides structure for students • Engages students-by using a variety of assignments • The end product becomes a portfolio of student’s work

12. Goals • Hands on approach to learning-active participants in learning • Makes information memorable • Helps keep students organized

13. How to Implement • Should be a year long project, checked by teacher at least at the end of each unit • Teacher should keep a Teacher Notebook that includes information students need to have

14. Assessment • Have students keep a table of contents • Teachers should include rubrics or guidelines for students • Have students assess their own notebook to compare with teacher grades • In Bring Learning Alive on p. 168 there is an example of notebook guidelines between student and teacher

15. Other examples • Foldable maps for testing continent/ocean placement • Mosaic of demography of United States whose sizes and shapes match the importance of various topics, key words, or phrases • Create a Janus figure-a drawing based on the Roman god portrayed with two opposite faces-to represent the English and French perspectives on Joan of Arc

16. Other Resources to Help • Dinah Zikes “Notebook Foldables” provides different ways to create pockets or “foldables” like a foldable timeline • Cathy is the Queen of interactive notebooks

17. Closer • Was Henry VIIIs break with Rome a personal thing (divorce) or did he really find flaws with the message of the Catholic Church? Why? 2-3 sentences