You Will Need:

1.Pencil, Colored Pencils

2. Mission Possible Lab (picked up last week- Due today if you didn’t turn in on Friday)

3. Cornell Notes (Bookshelf- 2 pgs/4sides- Please staple)

4.Log #1 (Update On-line)

Check Off

Date Given

Date Due Name of Assignment Possible Pts.

Earned Pts.

8/24 8/31 E-Mail Me 40

8/24 9/9 Lab Supply Donation 10

8/25 8/29 beginning of class

Mission Possible 100/15

8/29 8/30 Cornell Notes Parts 1 & 2 60

MATERIALS MANAGER– Please come up and get one POST-IT note from me. TIMER/DESIGNER– Write Period # and Table # on Post it.MANAGER– Make sure everyone has Pages 2 and 3 of the lab done.

• Collect all Labs• Staple Lab Sheets with Post-It note on top

ORAL PRESENTER– I will be asking 5 questions about your design- It may be you I pick…..Be ready to answer.

1. Please Pick up all your materials, push in your stools and move to the back of the room.

2. Listen for your Name and sit where directed.

3. Negotiate new Jobs. Be ready to let me know what your job is when I call on

you.

Manager, Materials Manager, Timer/Designer, Oral Presenter

Note taking is an essential tool for helping learn the material you will cover in any content area. In Science, you will be required to take notes using the Cornell Note-Taking System. The system requires a specific format which will enable you to better understand, review content delivered in class and help you study for quizzes & tests.

There are many benefits from this type of note-taking. Taking notes keeps you alert and focused during class. Notes enable you to be an active contributor to your understanding & group. Notes help you become more actively involved in your own learning.

Class NotesTopic: ________________________Questions/Main Ideas:

Name ________________________________________ Class ________________________________________ Period ________________________________________

Date _____________________________________Notes:

Summary:

SLANT

Sit UPLean Forward; Listen Ask QuestionsNodTalk to your teacher

How will SLANT benefit you?

S Set Up Your Paper

T Take Notes according to the Cornell Format – Highlight

A Apply Your Thinking to the Notes

R Reflect and Review – + = Already know = May need to review -- = Still need to learn

Every

Evening

It is almost impossible to write fast enough to get ALL the information down accurately so you are able to remember things later.

However, there are some tricks you can use to make note taking easier!

HIGHLIGHT & understand the basic 7 strategies.

Using the tricks we have just gone over, carefully complete the worksheet by following the given directions.

Whatever you don’t finish in class is homework tonight.

Due Today:• Mission Possible Lab Packet w/ Post-It NoteDue Tomorrow:• Cornell Notes (If you didn’t finish in

class you have homework)Due Wednesday by 7:00pm:

• E-mail MeDue Thurs:

Orientation Guide