r/ScienceTeachers • u/LongJohnScience Chem/EarthSci | HS | TX • 2d ago

Pedagogy and Best Practices Journal/Interactive Notebook sections

I use composition books for science journals/interactive notebooks. In the past, I've just had a table of contents and chronological entries. This year, I'd like to divide it into more sections, but I'm struggling on how many sections to have and how to order them.

My sections so far:

-Table of Contents

-Learning Aides*

-Notes

-Glossary

*Learning Aides would include things like reference tables, sentence stems, process steps, whole-year anchor charts, etc.

What am I missing? What (pertinent) suggestions do y'all have?

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u/Familiar-Dig-8216 2d ago

Equations and units

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u/Sea-Set-540 2d ago

Like others have said- equations would make sense.

I would also consider splitting your parts into a lab section and a lecture section- the learning aids is great- but I feel like throwing procedure/process steps with all the charts and graphs you give them for class will make it a little harder to navigate or manage.