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Notebooking use has grown:
– Science notebooks of K-12 teachers, professional developers and university faculty.
– Note booking is regarded as an important educational tool.
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Notebooking helps students:
– Develop, practice and refine content understanding.
– Students practice metacogntion.
• students can review initial understanding and how they have improved their knowledge.
– Enhances reading, writing and communications.
• oral sharing in pairs, small groups to the class.
– Improves organization.
• Students keep materials together in an organized manner.

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Notebook organization:
– Students use the organizational elements of note books to support their learning.
– Teachers need to consider what elements of note booking will meet the learning goals for their content.
– Formats for the organizational can vary due to grade level and purpose.
• Types of Notebooks: Quad-ruled, lined, etc.
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Notebook formats: Typically have the same format.
– Title page or note book cover.
– Table of Contents/Concepts with page number and title
– Activity titles/headings.
– Appendixes i.e. glossary, skill chart, equations, formulas, etc.

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Can take many forms:
• Drawing/Diagrams: Student drawn diagrams, Microscope observations, Diagram inserts to be labeled, colored. i.e. body organs, maps, sentences, etc.
• Charts and graphs: KWL, X and Y axis graphing
• Tables: T-Tables, Y-tables
• Notes: Cornell note format, hand outs, etc.
• Writing: Reflection and analytical-students thinking about their own learning.
• Practice Problems
• Graphic organizers: Venn Diagrams, concept maps, etc.
• Lab investigation formats i.e. question, research, hypothesis, experimental set-up, data tables
• Vocabulary builders (ESL)

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Notebooks can by used to assess student understanding and provide feedback.
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Notebooks are a valuable tool to both students and teachers to evaluate:
• prior knowledge and existing ideas
• how conceptual understanding is being built
• procedural understanding
• mastery of curriculum goals
• the ability to apply/transfer ideas to new context.
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Rubrics
• Tools teachers may use in assessing note books.
• Can vary and depend on the teachers goals and purpose for note books.

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Notebooking requires a “tool box”:
– A container filled materials to insert materials, highlight pertinent information, create tables, etc.
– The material could also be located in the classroom in a central area.
– May contain:
• Tape, scissors, glue sticks, high lighters, rulers, markers, crayons, colored pencils, etc.

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You will use this notebook to record the information you learn from the Sustainability Summer Workshop.
– Contact information
– Grant information
– Classroom Activities
– How to implement and create cross-curriculum activities and cohorts.
– Etc.

• Number ALL pages in the top corners
• Front (right) = odds
• Rear (left) = evens
• We will all have the same thing on the same page
• Inside front cover and inside rear cover don’t have page #s
• Please number pages 1-10 now
• If you need to use more than one page for an activity, then add letters. For example, p. 10a and p.10b can be one activity
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• Take the last three pages title them with roman numerals (I, II, III)
– Appendix I-Contact information i.e. names, email addresses, etc.
– Appendix II-Grant information.
– Appendix III-Glossary to list key terms and meanings.

Page # Activity Name
1-5 T.O.C (Table of Concepts)
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Sustainability-What it means to me.
Every page should have a TITLE and an entry in the
Table of Concepts (TOC). Remember, we all will have the same activities on the same pages!

• Think about your understanding of Sustainability.
• Write a reflection paragraph describing what you know and what sustainability means to you.
• Use the following prompt:
– Sustainability is…
• Share your reflection.