1. Plus1: Organization
Week 7
Cornell Notes
Christopherson

2. Planner Check: Teachers

3. Get your composition books or a piece of notebook paper
Get your composition books or a piece of notebook paper. You are going to take notes!

4. Look back over your notes
Recall - After Class....
Look back over your notes

5. Different Note Review Methods

6. Outlining your notes
Best used for well organized material that moves from main ideas to details. (History)

7. Charting your notes
Great for subject matter that can be broken down into categories, such as similarities/difference, date/event/impact, pros/cons, etc.

8. Mapping your notes
Uses graphic organizers and diagrams to organize notes; It is useful for those who learn best with visuals.

9. -Take time review/reorganize these notes on a separate sheet of paper.
Last Week………
-Find a “sheet” of notes from the class with your lowest grade OR one in which you have a test this week.
-Take time review/reorganize these notes on a separate sheet of paper.

10. Cornell Notes

11. Developed in 1949 by Walter Pauk at Cornell University.
History
Developed in 1949 by Walter Pauk at Cornell University.

12. Why?
He developed Cornell Notes in response to frustration over student test scores.

13. How?
Cornell notes get students to process notes THREE DIFFERENT times!! Recall the Forgetting Curve.

14. Why should WE learn how?
“When used appropriately, students are GUARANTEED to increase their knowledge and raise their grades in ANY given class.”

16. Remember STAR3

17. Write a proper heading: Class and Date
S = Set up your paper
Write a proper heading: Class and Date

18. Write the topic of the lecture.
S = Set up your paper
Write the topic of the lecture.

19. S = Set up your paper
Save 1/3 of the left hand side of the paper for questions by folding or drawing a vertical line

20. Write notes on the right side of the page.
T = Take Notes
Write notes on the right side of the page.
Abbreviate and Paraphrase
Skip at least one to two lines between each idea.

21. A = Apply your Thinking
Within 24 hours of taking your notes, review your notes and write questions on the left side of page.

22. R = Reflect on Notes
Within 24 hours, add a summary to your notes at the bottom half of the paper.

23. R = Revise the Notes
Compare notes with classmates or textbook for items you might have missed.

24. Fold your notes so that the questions show; Quiz yourself
R = Review Notes
Fold your notes so that the questions show; Quiz yourself

25. 3. 1. 2. 4.

26. Example: History

27. Example: Math Notice that there is no reflection.

28. Example: English

29. Example: Science

30. Blank Templates on the Wiki
If you do not want to set up your own notes, I have several templates linked to the Wikipage.

31. On a new sheet of notes, turn these notes into Cornell notes.
What now?
On a new sheet of notes, turn these notes into Cornell notes.