This resource has the resources needed to teach students in Grades 3-5 to take notes using the Writing Revolution framework.
This resource has the resources needed to teach students in Grades 3-5 to take notes using the Writing Revolution framework.
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The Flip Book is designed to allow users to type and illustrate tabbed flip books up to ten pages long. Students and teachers can use the flip book for taking notes while reading, making picture books, collecting facts, or creating question and answer booklets.
Middle Years Inquiry Guidebook.
A resource guide for beginning the inquiry process with your students. Links to many resources and mini-lesson ideas.
Resources included:
- Brainstorming & forming research questions
- Skimming & Scanning
- Online Research Skills
- Note taking & paraphrasing
- Embedding quotations
- In text citations & works cited
"Office Lens trims, enhances, and makes pictures of whiteboards and docs readable. You can use Office Lens to convert images to PDF, Word and PowerPoint files, and you can even save images to OneNote or OneDrive.
Office Lens is like having a scanner in your pocket. Like magic, it will digitize notes from whiteboards or blackboards. Always find important documents or business cards. Sketch your ideas and snap a picture for later. Don't lose receipts or stray sticky notes again!"
This can convert handwriting to text (including chemical equations)!
Sun West teachers can add this from the app catalog. Contact your school's Tech Coach if you need assistance.
"Padlet is a great place for gathering ideas, sharing them and modifying them later. It's like a living, breathing webpage. Users can add links, YouTube videos, files and images to Padlet notes. They can move and arrange them."
1. Style
2. Invite
3. Post
4. Share
This article from Ditch That Textbooks talks about 20 ways you can use Padlet. https://ditchthattextbook.com/20-useful-ways-to-use-padlet-in-class-now/ (copy and paste into a browser).
Useful for a wide variety of reading and writing activities, this outlining tool allows students to organize up to five levels of information.
These strategies help middle school students improve their critical thinking, in turn encouraging them to take the initiative in their learning.