Name tags Get a paper plate with shaving cream on it. Add 3 or 4 drops of food coloring and then use a toothpick to make a design On an index card (blank side), write your name and then place a piece of scotch tape over it so that it is ‘protected’ Place your index card, with your name down, into your shaving cream. Carefully pick it up Using a ruler, hold a small corner of the card and scrape the shaving cream off (then scrape your card on the foil to clean the ruler) Get two pieces of tape from me and tape to the front of your notebook

Folders Put loose leaf paper in folder This is where you will put bell ringers (Daily Science)

Notebook Set up Place your syllabus as a flap on the inside front cover of your notebook.

Notebook Set up On the very first page, label it ‘table of contents’. On the left side, place the odd numbers. On the right side, place the even numbers. When you are done it should look like my picture.

Notebook set up Page 1 (back of table of contents) Label the back of the table of contents page 1 (put the number in a corner of the page). Glue the lab safety contract as a flap. On the table of contents, label page 1 ‘Lab Safety Contract’.

Notebook set up Page 2 Opposite the lab safety sheet is page 2. label it. Glue down ‘How to Write a Lab Report’. Label it in the table of contents.

Notebook Setup Page 3 Page 4 Label this ‘Scientific Method Notes’. These will be notes Page 4 Put your scientific method lab handout here (as a flap)

Taking notes Cornell Notes/Split Page Notes

References pages Flip to the back of your notebook. Count out 4 pages. On the front of the 1st page, write reference pages and create another table of contents