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Cornell Notes
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| Date | 31.03.2018 | | Size | 21.02 Kb. | | #41186 |
| - How did you learn the skill of note taking?
- How did this skill contribute to your success?
- Cornell note taking stimulates critical thinking skills.
- Note taking helps students remember what is said in class.
- A good set of notes can help students work on assignments and prepare for tests outside of the classroom.
- Good notes allow students to help each other problem solve.
- Good Notes help students organize and process data and information.
- Helps student recall by getting them to process their notes 3 times.
- Writing is a great tool for learning!
- Developed in 1949 at Cornell University by Walter Pauk.
- Designed in response to frustration over student test scores.
- Meant to be easily used as a test study guide.
- Adopted by most major law schools as the preferred note taking method.
- First & Last Name
- Class Title
- Period
- Date
- 2)
- Questions,
- Subtitles,
- Headings,
- Etc.
- 3) 3 to 4 sentence summary across
- the bottom of the last page of the day’s notes
- be used to provide an outline of chapter or lecture.
- Organized by main ideas and details.
- Can be as detailed as necessary.
- take notes as they are given by instructor or
- text in an orderly fashion.
- After class, write a summary of what you learned to
- clarify and reinforce learning and to assist retention.
- Can be used as study tool:
- 1. Define terms or explain concepts listed on left side.
- 2. Identify the concept or term on the right side.
- Can be used to provide a "big picture" of the chapter or
- Organized by main ideas and sub-topics
- Limited in how much detail you can represent.
- you can use this method for instructors
- who jump around from topic to topic.
- Can be used as a study tool
- and to determine whether you need more information or
- need to concentrate your study on specific topics.
- Summary is added at the end of ALL note pages on the subject (not page)
- Summary added AFTER questions
- are finished
- Summary should answer the problem stated in the subject.
- (Diagram copied
- during lecture)
- How do the ticks find the cattle?
- Why don’t the ticks usually kill their host?
- How could tick infestations in cattle impact humans?
- Let’s get out a sheet of Cornell note paper and get ready to practice the skill.
- Assignment & Instructions
- In the large, right hand column, take notes like you normally would.
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- You may use any style of note-taking you wish:
- outline format,
- narrative format,
- symbols,
- short hand, etc.
- Compare notes with a partner.
- Talk about what you wrote and why. Look for gaps & missed info.
- Both partners should feel free to add to their notes.
- Assignment & Instructions
- With your partner(s), create questions in the left hand column.
- These questions should elicit critical thinking skills.
- Levels 3 through 6 in Bloom’s Taxonomy.
- Assignment & Instructions
- 1. KNOWLEDGE: recalling information
- 2. COMPREHENSION: understanding meaning
- 3. APPLICATION: using learning in new situations
- 4. ANALYSIS: ability to see parts & relationships
- 5. SYNTHESIS: Use parts to create a new whole
- 6. EVALUATION: judgment based on criteria
- Brief Review of Bloom's Taxonomy
- Your questions should reflect:
- Info you don’t understand or want to discuss with your teacher/tutor.
- Info you think would go good on an essay test.
- Gaps in your notes.
- Assignment & Instructions
- On your own, in the space provided at the bottom of the page, complete a 3 or 4 sentence summary of what you wrote in your notes.
- (the summary…)
- Assignment & Instructions
- Notes go here, in the
- large right hand column.
- Questions,
- subtitles,
- etc. go here,
- in the left
- hand column.
- Remember,
- we want
- higher level
- critical
- thinking
- questions.
- A 3 to 4 sentence summary down there on the bottom of the last page of notes
- Don’t forget the heading:
- Name, Class, Period, Date, Topic
- In the right sleeve of your packet:
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- Basic Cornell Notes Instruction Sheet
- Ninth
- Grade
- Biology
- Notes
May reflect headings in PowerPoint lectures - May reflect headings in PowerPoint lectures
- Leave room on the left for questions and diagrams
- Leave plenty of room within the outline for student note-taking
Provide students with skeleton computerized Cornell notes - Provide students with skeleton computerized Cornell notes
- Students re-copy their notes that night into their journal
- Automatic review
- Kinesthetic learning
- Can edit, look-up words
- Prompts higher-level questions
- Absentees can target on what they need to know
(Overview: quickly scan) - (Overview: quickly scan)
- (Establish a purpose)
- (to answer questions)
- (answers to questions with the book closed)
- (Take notes!)
- (at short intervals)
- A writing technique to help focus
- on what you are learning in class.
- Writing in your learning log is a
- great way to use writing as a
- process of discovery and for
- clarification of ideas.
- Speaker says: “Hippocrates, a
- Greek who is considered to be the
- Father of modern medicine, was
- Born on the island of Cos in
- 460 B.C.”
- Notes say: “Hippocrates (Gr.)
- Father of med. B. Cos 460BC”
- Think about the reading
- Consider how the parts relate to the whole; how the text relates to previous ideas
- Create questions about new words/ terms, why emphasized points are important
- Examine what you have learned from visuals
- Look for the pattern in elements like chapter /subsection headings, summary points, graphics
- Know where to find the index and glossary
- Be Aware of Textbook Organization
- Tips on Taking Text Notes
- Become familiar with the font, symbols, borders, graphics, colors, and layout that highlight main ideas or terms
- Be alert to the writer's goal: highlight ideas/ references /opinions that seem significant to their point of view
- Use the text style to identify important points
- Tips on Taking Text Notes
- Include headings, key terms, & graphics
- Take down only the important ideas: brief, but clear
- Summarize in your own words
- Use symbols to highlight for review
- Use textbook review questions to develop study questions
- Tips on Taking Text Notes
- Identify main ideas
- Fill in details for better understanding
- Identify unclear information and/or questions - collaborate for answers
- Delete unnecessary information
- Review note organization; add symbols or rewrite
- Write a summary
- Tips on Taking Text Notes
- Use discussion topics/questions organize your notes
- Use symbols for important ideas
- Include your own responses in notes
- Develop questions to review later
- Add references to other material as they come to mind
- Tips on Taking
- Discussion Notes
- Cover the right side of your notes; review and answer study questions from the left using the right side as an answer key
- Quiz yourself out loud
- Cover the right side with blank paper; write out answers to the left column study questions
- Tips for Studying with Notes
- Write summaries of the most important material in the summary/reflection section
- Write a quiz for others using notes; exchange and correct
- Write anticipated test questions beyond those already in the left-hand column and write answers
- Tips for Studying with Notes
- Look over notes frequently to keep information and questions still unanswered fresh in mind
- Recite information from notes
- Tips for Studying with Notes
- Exchange notes with others to flesh out information and understanding
- Use notes in study groups to provide a common ground of material for reference and review
- Rewrite notes if necessary
- Tips for Studying with Notes
- Designed by
- Paul Bullock
- Senior Program Specialist
- &
- Anne Maben
- AP Science Coach
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