Cover Page for Interactive Notebook

Cover Page for Social Studies Notebook

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Utah Map on a Graham Cracker

Some of my pre-service teachers provided a sweet activity for us today.   We made a map of Utah on a graham cracker.   

Presidents! Interactive Notebooks

Mini Presidential report using a top tab book.

True/False sort on fact and fiction.

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Common Core Connection in Interactive Notebooks

It is important to connect to the Common Core and the emphasis on understanding informational text.   Here are a two ideas I have used: Entry and Exit slips and Chunking the Information.

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Time Lines in Interactive Notebooks

Have students make timelines of their own life by deciding on a few events and looking through magazines to find pictures that represent those events. Glue the pictures with a description of the event on index cards. Attach to yarn. These can be hung up on a bulletin board for display.   I had my students make pockets and include in their social studies notebook.     

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The Underground Railroad Pop-Up in Interactive Notebook

In this lesson I taught the students about the Underground Railroad.   I used several oral histories from To Be a Slave by Julius Lester and an electronic field trip from National Geographic  Electronic Field Trip Underground Railroad.   I also read them Jeanette Winter's Follow The Drinking Gourd.  I taught the students how to make a pop-up book within their notebook to illustrate their understanding.

We also made vocabulary books to recall certain key terms.  

Template for Pop-Up

Using graphs in Interactive Notebooks

Here I have students demonstrate information using a circle graph and a bar graph.   This one I used with my pre-service teachers.   It could be easily adapted for elementary students to use to convey anything that can be demonstrated in graph form: gross national product, population, diversity of a region, data collected from science project, etc.

Sensory Figures for Social Studies Interactive Notebook

Sensory images give students a chance to demonstrate their understanding about the people they are studying.   I have students write about 6 complete sentences describing what the person sees, feels,

hears, tastes and smells.

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