Give Your Students a Voice With Interactive Notebooks Interactive Notebooks will change the way your students organize their thoughts, show creativity and express their knowledge of a subject. Using Interactive Notebooks, your students will have a significant decrease in lost papers and a more personalized education. Though this session is directed towards Science, Interactive Notebooks are easily adaptable for other subjects. Presenter: Catie DiVito - Broad Creek Middle School - Newport, NC

1. Sinker Index 2013-2014; Miss DiVito’s Science Class
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Comic Strip 6
1 comic
strip
Hero or Wanted
Poster
4 1 poster
Chart or Graph 4
2 charts/
graphs
Advertisement,
Book/ Magazine
Cover
4
1 ad, book/
mag. cover
Invitation 2 1 invitation
Biographical
Poem
3 1 poem
Haiku 1 1 poem
Illustrated
Timeline
3 1 timeline
Song Lyrics 3/5 1 song
Visualization 3 3 words

2. Sinker Index 2013-2014; Miss DiVito’s Science Class
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Mnemonic 2
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mnemonics
Definition Poem 3 2 poems
Current Event 10
1 current
event
V3- Verbal Visual
Vocabulary
1 5 words
Acrostic Poem 2
3 words/
terms
Letter 4 1 letter
Section Review
Questions
4
1 set of
review
questions
Verify Class
Information
10
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verification
Text or Tweet
Summaries
2
2 texts/
tweets/
statuses
Design a test/
quiz w/ answer
key
1
10
questions
w/ answers
Foldable 5 1 foldable

3. Sinker Index 2013-2014; Miss DiVito’s Science Class
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Shrinking Notes 4
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