Ideas to Setup Your Interactive Notebooks

Check out this video illustrating a few ideas about setting up and using a secondary interactive notebook in your classroom; as well as making the most of the left and right-side space.
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In this video, James of Bond with James talks about tips for setting up student science interactive notebooks. Interactive notebooks, INBs (or interactive journals, ISNs), are a great teaching strategy to employ in order to have students take notes and keep a record of all of their work. Students interact with their notes - graphic foldables or graphic organizers - to demonstrate their understanding of the content. While James talks about the left-side / right-side method to science interactive notebooks, he always recommends that you use a style of interactive notebook that works for you.
While this video displays a science interactive notebook ideas, the tips are applicable to all levels and content areas. Hopefully, these interactive notebook tips and tricks will help you take your student interactive notebooks to the next level!

[@trohnb8104]

I find his work to be quite thorough & professional. I use his creations often with my students.

[@Bondwithjames]

Thanks for sharing that with me; I appreciate it. :)

[@AhappyteacherAtruestory]

Hi James! I'm so glad you did this series about Interactive Notebooks. I've never seen such a thing here in France. It's really inspiring. I have so many things going for the year to come that I'm sure wether I'll do it next year, but I will definitely give it a try!

[@Bondwithjames]

Thank you! I really need to update this; which I will probably do now that I have my vlogging series going. I also shot this video while I was out of the classroom and so I saved examples from my return last year (biology) and will definitely showcase some chemistry versions this year.

[@JesusPaidItAll]

Hey James, Getting ready to start the school year and I am FINALLY going to implement the ISN. I've thought about it for a few years now and I've decided to take the plunge. I really like how you set your notebook up. I visited your TPT site, but didn't see any of the files like the questions starters, writing prompts, etc. Just wondering if you were going to post those or not?

[@Bondwithjames]

Sorry for the late response. I have to update mine because the ones I showed were something created by my team and therefore, do not necessarily belong for me to post. I apologize for the inconvenience.

[@violetmartin9738]

Do you have files of those sentence starters and reference pages you put in the front of your INB? Thank you!

[@Bondwithjames]

Hello Violet - I need to redo them as they were created during work hours.

[@brencapilitan7119]

hello do you have like sample rubrics for Interactive notebook? thanks

[@brendacapilitan8681]

hi James im really inspired with your interactive notebook, i would like to do this teaching strategy in my class.. hope i can get some ideas on how will i start this one.. thank you so much

[@SergioHernandez-wz3jj]

Could you describe a days routine using interactive notebooks? Are there any other portions you do during your periods or is it all about the notebook and getting things in it? Thanks!!

[@professortan3425]

Hi James, thanks for posting! I'm thinking of starting interactive notebooks in all my classes this year. Do you have downloadable resources for the Biology prefixes and sentence starters you showed in this video?

[@grade5az-zahra562]

Can you please share the sentence starters sheet for teachers to use? Thanks and good video!

[@Bondwithjames]

Yes, I will need to redo it as this version was created during my professional hours.

[@kraftymomma1979]

Great video! Where did you find your starters and references?

[@Bondwithjames]

Several of the starters/references were created by my science team; or were shared years ago.

[@tamarar.4642]

I homeschool my daughter and she has ADHD. THIS HAS TOTALLY CHANGED HOW FAST SHE LEARNS SUBJECTS! We start school earlier than everybody else. I like to include her in making every sheet that goes in the book. Mondays and Tuesdays we introduce new lessons and make interactive pages for them. She use the book for a quick review at night before bed. She LOVES school now. The website teacher pay teachers has MANY free pages to print for interactive books!! I just print and we decide what to write or draw. I do it that way because the book is HER study guide to understand the lesson. I make sure she has the correct information. If I make the book she want understand it lol 😂. She’s a great artist as well so she gets to learn and draw.

[@emilymarsch4982]

Hi James, thank you so much for such a thorough video about interactive notebooks! I am currently doing a field experience in a middle school classroom and the students use an interactive notebook (which is an idea I LOVE) but I wasn't able to see how they set them up. I absolutely love the rubber band bookmark (it is so clever!) and all of the resources included at the beginning of the notebook. I'll definitely be watching the rest of your interactive notebook videos :)

[@msalonso6324]

Do you rather use composition notebooks or spiral notebooks. Do you have a copy of the six things worksheet of what the students can do on the left side?

[@Bondwithjames]

Hi, Esther. I prefer composition notebooks because it's harder to tear the pages out; (it's still possible but I watch for that). I like spiral because they're larger in size but I've been able to work around that issue with the comp books by layering paper (and resizing documents prior to printing). The worksheet you spoke of is copyrighted (I didn't create it), but I do have a version that I created this past school year. I'll probably add it to my TpT store and will let people know once it is done.

[@msalonso6324]

Bond with James thank you James. I am a 6th grade science teacher, you’re videos are helpful!

[@adriannamartin5992]

Thank you very helpful! Just starting first year of college

[@Bondwithjames]

No problem. I need to do an updated one. I cringe at this one as I was just starting my YT channel, lol. Thanks for watching!

[@adriannamartin5992]

Bond with James no problem :)

[@theXfrontier]

Good afternnon James, I just recently purchased your chem 7 in 1 interactive notebook bundle, and have a question of how the set up is with the IGOs included. Are the worksheets/student pages used in either the right side or left side? I am thinking of implementing them with some being left side and others being right side depending on what my students need. But some insight into using this would be helpful since this is my first time tackling this. Also, do you have the student choice sheet(left side ideas) available? I saw you made one on one of your videos. I have found some online but none seem to be as close and clear as yours. Thanks hope to hear from you soon. -Raymond

[@Bondwithjames]

Hello, Raymond. First, I apologize for the late response. I took some time away from KZbin and now I'm trying to catch up to all the comments. As far as how you use the pages, it's up to you. I personally use all the notes for the right-side and have students demonstrate their learning on the left-side. If using both sides works for you, then do it! I need to look in my files to find the choice sheet. I hope I was able to help you out!

[@kcoldie]

Do you get a free period every day?

[@Bondwithjames]

I wouldn't necessarily call it free, but I do get 1 planning period each day. Sometimes this is taken up by team meetings (PLC, department, or interdisciplinary). Thanks for asking!

[@brencapilitan7119]

you are great.... you always have videos that gives a lot of ideas on how to improve teaching... i would like to introduce interactive notebook in my class...

[@steptemberangle6606]

This video is very helpful! I’m a Highschool student and I just finished my sophomore year and I wanted to create a chemistry notebook containing everything I’ve learned over the year, all though I was wondering if you have a pdf of the Prefixes and Sentence/Question starters ?

[@Bondwithjames]

Thank you! I need to check my old files as I just saved a paper copy and reuse that.

[@cherridawalters-jackson9025]

Hi James I have 11th graders:) would you suggest setting up the ISN ahead of time ( for topics that lend itself to pre set-up) rather than during class? The periods are pretty short?

[@Bondwithjames]

I do a combination of both. Although, I did run into an issue with my students this year in regard to them setting it up ahead of time.

[@lucymorisset2342]

Finally! An INB that WORKS!

[@Bondwithjames]

Thank you!