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Reflection helps people (and students are people!) make connections to what they've learned.  Use these strategies to use to get the most out of your Science Notebook.

Reflection Ideas
Review Your Notes Once a Day and Make Connections

  1. Read your notes once a day.  This only takes a few minutes, but it's SUPER IMPORTANT.

  2. Make sure your notes make sense. 

  3. Fix your sentences and drawings to record what happened during class.

  4. Use a highlighter to highlight 3 key ideas on each notebook page.

  5. ON THE LEFT SIDE of your notebook, write out a connection you made to the highlighted idea.  This means that you connect it to another idea in the text or to something in your life or to something in the world.  These connections are called:

Text to Text

Text to Self

Text to World

 
 

 
30-Word Summary

  1. Read your notes once a day.  This only takes a few minutes, but it's SUPER IMPORTANT. (Do I sound like a broken CD?)

  2. Make sure your notes make sense. 

  3. Fix your sentences and drawings to record what happened during class.

  4. Use a highlighter to highlight 3 key ideas on each notebook page.

  5. ON THE LEFT SIDE of your notebook, write a 30 word summary of your notes.

  6. Make sure it includes the 3 key ideas that you highlighted.

  7. Make sure it is NO MORE THAN 30 WORDS LONG and includes all the key points that we discussed in class.

 

 

 
Partner Questions

  1. Read your notes with a partner.  

  2. Take turns asking your partner questions about the text.

  3. Find the answers in the text to check for correctness.

  4. Write the questions and the answers on the Left side of the notebook.  Show where you found the answer in your notebook.  You and your partner should have different questions.
 

 
Q-Notes.

  1. When you get ready for a quiz or a test, you can use your notes to prepare Q-Notes!  Click here for an example.
 

 
Thinking Map

  1. Read your notes once a day.  This only takes a few minutes, but it's SUPER IMPORTANT. (Do I sound like a broken CD?)

  2. Make sure your notes make sense. 

  3. Fix your sentences and drawings to record what happened during class.

  4. Use a highlighter to highlight 3 key ideas on each notebook page.

  5. ON THE LEFT SIDE of your notebook,

  6. Create thinking maps for your notes on the opposite side of your notes.

 
You asked me to do it. 
I promised to do it. 
I planned to do it. 
I started to do it. 
I really meant to do it. 
Except I forgot. 
Couldn't I get some credit? 
For promising, 
Planning, Starting, 
And really meaning to do it?

Guess not.

Judith Vorst