Guide to Science Interactive Notebooks

Guide to Science Interactive Notebooks

Note: This post is for helping you be successful with traditional Science Interactive Notebooks where students take notes and engage in paper-based activities. If you’re looking to learn more about Digital Science Interactive Notebooks, click here. Using Science...
Interactive Notebooks in the Classroom: Enhancing Learning Through Engagement

Interactive Notebooks in the Classroom: Enhancing Learning Through Engagement

Interactive notebooks can be a powerful tool to promote active learning and student engagement in your science classroom. These notebooks are not the traditional ones we grew up with; they go beyond pen and paper, offering a creative and dynamic way for students to...
Successfully putting the “Interactive” in Science Interactive Notebooks

Successfully putting the “Interactive” in Science Interactive Notebooks

How many times have you heard your students say, “I forget what we did yesterday!”, or “I can’t find my notes!”? Probably more times than you wish. Students are frequently unprepared and unorganized. It’s a fact. How can we fix this problem? The solution – have...
Keys to a Successful Science Interactive Notebook

Keys to a Successful Science Interactive Notebook

Science Interactive Notebooks are the cornerstone of my science curriculum and continue to be because of these Keys to a Successful Science Interactive Notebook that I keep in mind when designing new material for you. 1. Introduce topics by asking a guiding question....
Plate Tectonics and Sea Floor Spreading for Science Interactive Notebooks

Plate Tectonics and Sea Floor Spreading for Science Interactive Notebooks

Teaching the concept of sea-floor spreading can be easily modeled using my simple, yet powerful interactive resource for science interactive notebooks. Using the given template and a sheet of colored paper, students will be able to manipulate a model that will allow...

Bubble Plasma Membrane Demo

Well, my New Year’s Resolution was to start adding posts to this blog to share my ideas…it’s now February so I better get my act together 🙂 Good old Punxsuatawney Phil gave us a few more weeks of winter, so better make the most of it and have a...