Interactive Notebook Dividers 2.0

One of my favorite changes from final schoolhouse twelvemonth was to brand dividers for my students' interactive notebooks. The twelvemonth earlier last, I tried using viscid tabs to separate units. But, these simply got bent upwards inward students' backpacks. The kids weren't using them, too hence I stopped handing them out.

This by year's dividers were made out of a letter-sized sail of paper. The newspaper was folded too glued inward the notebook too hence that the championship of each unit of measurement stuck out of the notebook for tardily reference.

The really foremost divider had a house for students to score off each unit of measurement every bit they completed it. I never remembered to remind students to produce so, too hence most of them left it blank. A brace of students did relish coloring inward their progress.

Each unit's pages consisted of 2 parts: a score tracking sail too a listing of skills that doubled every bit a tabular array of contents.

H5N1 few weeks ago, Shaun started questioning me near these dividers too what I idea near them subsequently using them for a year. I told him they were a must-have for keeping notebooks organized. I was able to assist my students role their notebooks much to a greater extent than effectively this twelvemonth because they (and I!) could genuinely notice stuff.

The dividers made me to a greater extent than organized because #1) I had to know just what skills nosotros would live roofing inward each unit of measurement BEFORE it started #2) I had to know just what gild said skills would live covered inward during each unit of measurement BEFORE It started.

Then, nosotros started discussing possible tweaks to the dividers for adjacent year. Since the skills are already written out too inward order, nosotros decided that the page numbers were genuinely unnecessary. My students weren't using the page numbers to notice things, anyway.

They were using the theme dividers that I gave them at the outset of each unit.

Next, Shaun suggested that nosotros could set quiz scores inward house of the page numbers. This would set the quiz scores correct adjacent to the science instead of making students flip dorsum too forth.

So, what goes on the other side now? A pretty picture, of course.

here. I borrowed his novel too updated template to brand dividers for my Algebra i classes. Here are the finished products:

(If you're straining to read the skills, they're posted here inward a much to a greater extent than reader friendly format!)

Files are uploaded here every bit (editable) Publisher files too (non-editable) PDF files. If you lot download the Publisher files, you'll involve to too download these gratis fonts: Righteous too Open Sans. All clip fine art images were downloaded from ClipArt ETC.