- allow you to be creative thinker
- help you become an independent thinker
- help you improve reflection
IANs are used for:
- class notes
- labs
- and other activities where you will be asked to reflect on your learning and process or apply information in a way that is meaningful to you
- to study for tests
Left Side vs Right Side
Left Side
- Reorganize new information in creative ways
- Express opinions and feelings on certain topics
- Explore connections with prior learning
- Apply skills learned
- Demonstrate what you have learned or know through an activity of your choice (see below)
- Draw conclusions on an experiement that was run in class.
- Table of Contents (TOC)
- Class, reading, discussion notes
- Informative handouts
- Any activity assigned by your teacher (i.e. labs, worksheets, Cornell Notes, PowerPoint notes, vocabulary words, etc.)
Examples of Left Side Work:
- Venn Diagram
- Concept web
- Drawn/ClipArt
- Personal responses
- Comic strips
- Points of view
- Word gram
- Chart/graph
- Metaphors
- Processed article
- Political cartoon
- Pictoword
- Mind notes
- Timeline
- Flow charts
- Illustrated definitions
- Map
- Cause and effect charts
- Connection to today
- Connection to the past
- Poem
- Essay
Grading:
- Notebooks will be checked periodically as classwork/homework.
- I will check to see that left side activities are varied and not a simple restatement or picture. You must show evidence of processing.
- Right side: Full credit/No credit (Since it is done is class.
- It is your responsibility to get the missed information from a fellow student or from the teacher's example IAN.
