Setting Up Your Setting Up Your Interactive Student Interactive Student

Notebook (ISN)Notebook (ISN)

Setting Up Your Setting Up Your Interactive Student Interactive Student

Notebook (ISN)Notebook (ISN)

Your Key to Success Your Key to Success in Geography/Social Studiesin Geography/Social Studies

Have you ever heard yourself say . . .

Materials Needed (everyday):

Composition Notebook Pens or pencils

Colored pencilsGlue sticks

What is an Interactive Notebook?

• A personalized textbook• A working portfolio – all of your

notes and classwork– in one convenient spot.

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Inside Cover

Your NameMrs. Council

Your Class PeriodWorld Geography

2011-2012

Author’s Page

You may decorate your page on your own time!

Rules and Procedures(Write the following word for word on the

last page of your notebook.)

1. The ISN must be brought to class every day.

2. NO Ripping out pages from the ISN.3. Right side of notebook is used for daily

class notes – Words of Wisdom (WOW).

4. The top left side is used for the Review and Process (RAP). You must write out the daily RAP question or prompt before answering it in a complete sentence.

5. The bottom left side is used to “Work it Out” (WIO) and process the

information taught.6. All work done in the WIO must be your

own work. (This is to assess comprehension.)

Rules and Procedures (continued)

7. You must write the TOPIC #, TOPIC TITLE, and DATE on the top right hand corner for each entry.

8. Table of Contents must be filled in with each new entry.

9. Your ISN is part of the 30% class work grade and must be kept up to date.

Rules and Procedures –(continued)

10. If you are absent, it is your responsibility to copy down the missed assignment from the Master ISN Teacher Book or from the teacher’s website.

11. No doodling – no pictures that are irrelevant to the topic.

Rules and Procedures (continued)

WOW• The WOW is for learning!• The WOW are your notes from class.• The WOW has all “testable”

information.

WIO• The WIO is for “reflection”• The WIO lets me know if you

understand what was taught. The WIO belongs to YOU and only YOU! (Must be your own work!)

Table of ContentsUnit One – Intro to Geography

1. Mapping Skills

Topic NumberTopic Title

Example of Unit Page:Intro to Geography

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Illustrated Outlines

Sensory Figures

Sensory Figures, cont.

Concept Map

Acrostics

Comic Strips

Venn Diagram