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4th Grade Lesson Plan on Notetaking Skills

 * Objectives**
 * 1) Students will gain a basic understanding of the notetaking process.
 * 2) Students will learn to develop questions before they start taking notes.
 * 3) Students will understand that notetaking can include drawings and words but doesn't include writing down every word.
 * 4) Students will be able to complete the notetaking process on their own.


 * Materials**
 * 1) [[file:Basics of Notetaking Handout.pdf]]
 * 2) [[file:T-Format Handout.pdf]]
 * 3) Laptop and projector to view the website for class example - [].


 * Lesson Procedure**
 * 1) Students and media specialist will review together the Basics of Notetaking handout and the media specialist will answer student questions about notetaking.
 * 2) Media specialist will ask students to comment upon why they think it is important to take good notes. Media specialist will then ask students to comment upon what they think is important to creating good notes. Students should mention organization, tidiness, completeness, etc. Media specialist will write all of these comments on the board in an organized format.
 * 3) Students and media specialist will review together the T-format handout and discuss why this format is helpful to the notetaking process.
 * 4) The class will view the Soils exhibit from the Chicago Field Museum together and fill in their T-format handouts as a group. The media specialist will take suggestion for topics, drawings that might be included, how the different topics could be organized, etc.

5th Grade Lesson Plan on Media Notetaking and Analyzing

 * Objectives**
 * 1) Students will understand the differences between notetaking from presentations and notetaking from written sources.
 * 2) Students will gain a basic understanding of the parts to a videotaped presentation.
 * 3) Students will understand that notetaking can be used for more than just recording facts.


 * Materials**
 * 1) [[file:Script for Notetaking Presentation.pdf]]and a teacher to be helper.
 * 2) [[file:Notetaking for Presentations Handout.pdf]]
 * 3) [[file:Cornell Note Format Handout.pdf]]
 * 4) Laptop and projector to view sample video fieldtrips from [] - [|San Francisco Cable Cars], [|New York Hall of Physics], and [|Edgewood, Pennsylvania: Summer in My Town]


 * Lesson Procedure**
 * 1) Media specialist and teacher will perform the Notetaking skit. During the skit, students should be taking notes. After the skit, media specialist and students will discuss difficulties of notetaking during presentations. Students will share what parts of the message they wrote down and what they missed. Media specialist will mention the importance of keywords.
 * 2) Students and media specialist will review together the Notetaking for Presentations handout and the media specialist will answer student questions about notetaking.
 * 3) Media specialist will ask students to comment upon how taking notes from live and media presentations is different from taking notes from written sources.
 * 4) Students and media specialist will review together the Cornell Note Format Handout and discuss why this format is helpful for taking notes during presentations.
 * 5) Students will view the three videotaped fieldtrips and take notes on their Cornell Note Format Handout about what is included in each presentation. Students should NOT focus on facts, but rather, parts of the presentation (introduction, credits, interview with expert, etc.) and similarities between the videos.
 * 6) After the videos, students will share the similarities and parts of the presentation they noticed.