Although we are finishing up the first quarter at my school, we are going to start “true” interactive notebooks this week.  The reason I say “true” interactive notebooks is because we have been creating interactive notebooks but not in a composition notebook, which seems to be the most popular method.  So, in a sense, my students are comfortable with creating graphic organizers and foldables but not within their composition books.

The reason I am switching from the “paper” method to the composition notebooks is in the hope that the students will not throw these away after we finish a unit.  Currently, once we finish a unit, the students ask, “Can I throw it away now?”  But, I want them to keep it for future reference on the things they have learn.  Plus, the foldables are so cute that I want them to keep it!

Below I have found some resources for setting up an interactive notebook.

I have 5 notebooks: Master Copy and 4 notebooks for my four blocks of math that I teach.  Inside, I have inserted a “Table of Contents” page and a “Vocabulary” page.

The “Table of Contents” insert comes from StatTeacher.  It looks like this:

The vocabulary pages  that I modified look like this:

The links for the vocabulary can be found HERE.

I hope you can find some of this information and resources helpful!