AMERICAN CIVICS: THE INTERACTIVE NOTEBOOK

What is an Interactive Notebook?

An interactive notebook is your personal, customized textbook

The notebook records your journey though American Civics and is designed by you as a place to:

Explore and learn about history

Organize your notes

Be a creative, independent, and analytical thinker

Interactive Notebooks Do A Lot

Interactive Notebooks: Organize you – most of your materials for class are in one place

DON’T LOSE IT! Help you keep things in chronological order – pretty important in a

history class Encourages you to take pride in your work – interactive notebook

grades should be a free A Helps students who learn visually, kinesthetically, and even

auditory Will provide a foundation for you to build on in seventh grade and

beyond in history classes

Parts of the Notebook

Your notebook will have: Rubrics for grading Table of contents for each chapter in class Class notes Places for you to work Handouts/maps/guides Flipbooks (Mr. Staten will teach you how to build them!) And more…

Braaaaaaaiiiiiins

Inside your head, you have a brain. (I hope.)

Your brain has two hemispheres, a fancy word for halves, that help you think. (Or should.)

Each half of your brain handles a different type of thinking.

I Waaaaaant Braaaaaaiiiiiins

Left Brain Right Brain

Logical Thinking Critical Thinking Reason Analytical Strategic Accurate Decisive Controlled

Emotional Colorful Musical Artistic Creative Imagery Poetic Passionate

Don’t Believe Me? Check It Out

Interactive Notebooks

Interactive Notebooks appeal to both the logical and creative sides of the brain by using both sides of the notebook

The Right Side is where your Cornell Style Notes will go Cornell notes are very good at preparing you to think about

material you learn at a higher (read: collegiate) level!

The Left Side is where you get to be creative Warmups, cartoons, drawings, free responses…that goes here!

Don’t Worry…

This guy spent two years working on this! You’ll eventually get really good at it with

practice He’ll make sure you get the hang of it

Mr. Staten (not Han Solo) will make sure you have everything you need to get started! Han is scruffy looking anyway.

To quote Bender from Futurama: Let’s go already!