The Interactive Science Notebook
Your student will also be spending a lot of time with something called the ISN. In our AP Biology course, students keep an interactive student notebook (ISN), where they document their learning and interact with course content. We will use it daily.
On any given day, we could be doing one of the following things in our notebook:
This document is a continued work in progress and will result in a homemade study guide for the course by year's end. It is important that your student keep up with their ISN on a daily basis, since this learning log is the physical representation of their processing of course concepts. We will use this notebook in class on a daily basis to catalog all the learning that students do both inside and outside the classroom, so it is important that they have it with them each day. Below are examples that illustrate a little bit about what an ISN is, and how it might appear.
On any given day, we could be doing one of the following things in our notebook:
- Solving practice problems
- Interpreting graphs or diagrams
- Creating graphic organizers or concept maps about biology content
- Writing practice free response questions
This document is a continued work in progress and will result in a homemade study guide for the course by year's end. It is important that your student keep up with their ISN on a daily basis, since this learning log is the physical representation of their processing of course concepts. We will use this notebook in class on a daily basis to catalog all the learning that students do both inside and outside the classroom, so it is important that they have it with them each day. Below are examples that illustrate a little bit about what an ISN is, and how it might appear.