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Taking Notes for Science Class HandoutTaking Notes for Science Class Handout
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Santiago Canyon College
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5th - 12th
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Career & Technical Education
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Taking Notes for Science Class

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Provide young scholars with the tools they need to succeed with this reference on the Cornell note-taking strategy. By breaking the content of lessons into main ideas, supporting details, and overall summaries, students are able to create organized study guides that reinforce their learning.

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CCSS: Adaptable

Concepts

note-taking skills, Study Skills, organizing information, main ideas, supporting details, summarizing, cornell notes

Additional Tags

classroom support

Instructional Ideas

  • Apply this note-taking strategy across all subject areas, not just science
  • Create a note-taking template that students can use to implement this strategy
  • Have students use this strategy during lectures, while watching videos, or even while reading textbooks

Pros

  • Offers a clear five-step process for using this approach to note-taking
  • Provides a sample page of notes that models how this strategy is used

Cons

  • None

Common Core

RI.5.2 SL.5.2 RI.6.2 RI.7.2 RI.8.2 RI.9-10.2 RI.11-12.2 SL.6.2 SL.7.2 SL.8.2 SL.9-10.2 SL.11-12.2 RST.6-8.2 RST.6-8.7 RST.9-10.2 RST.11-12.2 RST.11-12.7

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