The document provides instructions for setting up paper for simple note-taking and describes the note-taking process. It instructs students to draw lines to divide the paper, write their name and date in the top right corner and the source title and page number in the top left. Students are told to write the title of their notes on the top line. The note-taking process involves drawing pictures of important ideas, labeling the pictures, and writing a paragraph summarizing the ideas in their own words. Examples of note-taking for a lab are also provided.

1. What’s so Simple about Note-Taking?

2. Let’s Start with the Paper Set-Up Draw Lines Heading at Top-Right Corner Source at Top-Left Corner Title of Notes on Top Line

3. Paper Set-Up: Draw Lines 6-6-12 Count 6 spaces from the top & draw a line across the page. Count 6 spaces from the bottom & draw a line across the page. Count 12 spaces from the left & draw a line from top to bottom of the page.

4. Paper Set-Up: Draw Lines 6-6-12 Count 6 spaces from the top & draw a line across the page. Count 6 spaces from the bottom & draw a line across the page. Count 12 spaces from the left & draw a line from top to bottom of the page.

5. Paper Set-Up: Heading In the top-right corner, write: Your Name Block Date

6. Paper Set-Up: Source In the top-left corner, write: Title of the Source (book) Page number(s)

7. Paper Set-Up: Title On the top line (that you drew), write: The Title for your Notes

8. READ!

9. Simple Note-Taking After Reading: 1. Draw Pictures of Important Ideas 2. Label the Pictures 3. Write a paragraph (in your own words)

10. Note-Taking: Pictures Draw pictures of Important Ideas (from the reading)

11. Note-Taking: Labels Label the Pictures (and any important parts of the pictures)

12. Note-Taking: Paragraph Write a paragraph (in your own words) about Important Ideas from the reading selection

13. Let’s Try it Together!

14. Let’s Start with the Paper Set-Up Draw Lines Heading at Top-Right Corner Source at Top-Left Corner Title of Notes on Top Line

15. Let’s Start with the Paper Set-Up

16. READ!

17. Let’s Take Notes!

18. How Did We Do?

19. Now Try It on Your Own! Starting Science Pg 66 Pond Weed Cell

20. Now Try It on Your Own! Paper Set-Up STOP! READ! Simple Note-Taking Draw Pictures of Important Ideas Label the Pictures Write a paragraph (in your own words)

21. Note-Taking in the Lab

22. Note-Taking in the Lab Paper Set-Up Look at specimens under microscope Draw Pictures of what you see Label the Pictures Write a Paragraph: Observations & Comments

23. Note-Taking in the Lab Write a Paragraph: Observations & Comments What do you see? What did you do? How is it similar to what you expected? How is it different from what you expected? What did you learn from this activity?

24. Note-Taking in the Lab: Paragraph (example sentences) What do you see? The cells are so small that I can’t see any details. It’s difficult to see the ____ because ____. What did you do? I tried to focus on the _____ but it was too small to see.

25. Note-Taking in the Lab: Paragraph (example sentences) How is it similar to what you expected? I see the same cell parts that we saw in the textbook. I can see the _____. How is it different from what you expected? What I see under the microscope is different from what we saw in the textbook. The parts that look different are ____.

26. Note-Taking in the Lab: Paragraph (example sentences) What did you learn from this activity? Sometimes, you can’t see chloroplasts in a plant cell under the microscope because _____. Staining the specimen with iodine makes it easier to see the ______ because _____.