Curated OER
They Live in Guinea
Learners watch a video about Guinea, take notes, and discuss the video in large and small groups.
Curated OER
How to Take Notes
Learners practice taking notes while reading their textbooks. In this note taking lesson, students read a text and use the given procedure to take notes for the text.
Curated OER
Fluoride in Durango's Water-Helpful or Harmful?
Third graders complete several activities in their quest to find out about the addition of fluoride to city water. First, they create a guide sheet to help organize notes. The next two steps involve taking notes through guided practice....
Curated OER
Making the Grade: College Level Study Skills
Students discuss their most difficult college text. They take a questionnaire that analyzes their note taking styles and skills and then identify the appropriate way to study for a college level exam.
Curated OER
Comparing Wives and Lives
Students take effective useful notes from a video documentary, explain and use new vocabulary words, and research and create an oral report about an assigned aspect of the video.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Everglades
In this video segment from WILD TV, a scientist in the Florida Everglades talks about her research on the pig frog. [6:25]
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Writing Across the Curriculum
Designed by groups of Nevada teachers, this collection of modules and lesson plans is continually growing. Find suggestions for incorporating good writing practices in non-language arts areas of the curriculum from history to science.
Other
Note Taking Skills
This site contains information on taking good notes and how to use them effectively. Check out all three note-taking and listening links as the information varies.
Other
Sweet Briar College: Note Taking Skills
This site contains information for you to evaluate your current note-taking strategies and gives hints on more effective ways to take notes.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Nonfiction and Research: The Research Process: Notetaking
This lesson focuses on taking notes for your research project. It explains what to included in your notes and how to write them. It offers a link to The Quality Writing Center: "Creating and Using Outlines" and Study Guides and...
Other
Classroom Uses for the Two Column Notetaking Method
An excellent resource for students and teachers concerning two-column notes. Includes detailed information, two examples and several other helpful issues to keep in mind, including a discussion board on the topic.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Setting a Purpose for Reading Using Informational Text
This lesson engages students in using a two-column graphic organizer to take notes. Students will record titles and subtitles and list questions that will correspond with each one.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Character Cards
This video lesson focuses on using character cards as a reading strategy. It defines and gives the purpose of character cards, explains the type of information to put on the front and the back of the card and how to maintain the card. It...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: How to Take Research Notes
This tutorial focuses on how to take research notes using two slideshows. The first presentation compares taking research notes to class notes and offers 3 methods of note taking that would work for either: Cornell notes, index cards,...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Note Taking: Concept Maps and Flow Charts
This slideshow lesson focuses on note taking using concept maps and flow charts; it provides background information, 6 types of concept maps or flow charts with best uses, uses in the classroom, uses while reading or researching, and how...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Note Taking: Symbols and Abbreviations
This video lesson focuses on creating a system of note taking symbols and abbreviations that work for the individual. It explains the purposes of note taking and of using symbols and abbreviations; offers quick tips for abbreviating...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Note Taking Techniques
This lesson focuses on note taking techniques, such as Cornell notes, note cards, graphic organizers, highlighting, etc. It discusses reasons for note taking, techniques, how to take notes, and what to do with notes. It offers this...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Underlining and Highlighting Effectively
This slideshow focuses on underlining and highlighting effectively by showing what ineffective underlining and highlighting looks like and explaining the problems with it; this is followed by showing what effective underlining and...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Annotating Text
This slideshow focuses on the reading strategy, annotating text. It defines the term and purpose, lists types of annotation, explains what to annotate, and suggests how readers develop their own method.
Colorado State University
Colorado State Writing Center: Taking Notes
Provides essential and additional information concerning note-taking skills, in settings such as lectures, discussions, and research papers.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Reading Comprehension and Classroom Discussions
This tutorial focuses on active reading comprehension strategies including reading aloud, taking notes, summarizing, and writing in the margins of books to improve retention and class discussion. It includes two Flickr videos on active...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Paraphrasing While Listening and Taking Notes
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Learn to paraphrase a speaker's remarks in the process of your note taking.
Other
College of St. Benedict: Lecture Note Taking
This site contains information on taking notes during lectures and gives signal words to listen for during the lecture.
University of North Carolina
University of North Carolina Writing Center Handouts: Plagiarism
Use this handout to learn what plagiarism is and specific ways to avoid it. The explanation of "common knowledge" should be particularly useful to students. Although this handout is directed to college students, it is equally applicable...