Notebook Requirements

Biology Notebook

1. Enhance the organizational skills of the students.
2. To share responsibility for learning with the students. (They come to class prepared and ready to work)
3. To improve efficiency of class time so that real science learning can take place.  Less time wasted looking for lost or missing things!

1. All students will keep a notebook exclusively for biology class.
2. The notebook will be at least a 1" binder type notebook with dividers and loose-leaf notebook paper.
3. The notebook will be brought to class each and every day. (You may not go to your locker to get it!)
4. The notebook will be divided into sections as described below.

• Special handouts - handouts you will keep all year.
• Current outlines - outlines covering the topic we are currently going over.
• Current activities - activities we are working on.
• Current assignments - assignments you are currently working on that are not an outline or activity
• Graded Stuff - assignments/quizzes etc. that have been graded and returned to you (other than outlines and activities)
• Absence forms - forms that you complete when absence from class.

• Neatness - The entire notebook must be neat (inside and out).  This means free of doodles, obscenities, graffiti, etc.
• Organization - The notebook must be organized with dividers as described above.  Items are in the right place and easy to find!
• Content - The notebook must contain the materials it is supposed to contain.  Outlines, activities, graded things, attendance forms and special handouts.