Cornell

1. Cornell Notes

2. Taking Cornell Notes

3. Objective: To understand how to use Cornell Notes.

4. What do Cornell Notes Look Like?

5. The Hidden Curriculum Quickwrite Questions: • How you ever been taught how to take notes? • How do you think notes can help you?

6. Why take notes? • Cornell note taking stimulates critical thinking skills. • Note taking helps you remember what is said in class. • A good set of notes can help you work on assignments and prepare for tests outside of the classroom.

7. By day 2, if you do not think about or review your notes, you will lose 50%-80% of what you learned. • By day 30, if you do not think about or review your notes, you remember only 2% - 3% of what you learned on day 1. The Curve of Forgetting Source: Counseling Services, Study Skills Program at the University of Waterloo

8. Students who take no notes or some notes retain less than 59% of what was learned. • Students who take and use Cornell Notes as a study tool retain 90%-100% of what was learned. The Value of Cornell Notes

9. Why take notes? • Good notes allow you and your peers to help each other problem solve. • Good Notes help you organize and process data and information. • Helps you recall by getting you to process your notes 3 times. • Writing is a great tool for learning!

10. History of Cornell Notes • Developed in 1949 at Cornell University by Walter Pauk. • Used as part of the AVID curriculum since 1980. • Meant to be easily used as a test study guide. • Adopted by most major law schools as the preferred note taking method.

11. First & Last Name Class Title Period Date Topic Questions, Subtitles, Headings, Vocabulary, Drawings, Diagrams Key Terms Mind Maps Class Notes 3 to 4 sentence summary across the bottom of the last page of the day’s notes 2 1/2”

12. Anthropods Cornell Notes Sample

13. What goes where? Don’t forget the heading: Name, Class, Period, Date, Topic Questions, subtitles, etc. go here, in the left hand column. Remember, we want higher level critical thinking questions. Notes go here, in the large right hand column. A 3 to 4 sentence summary down there on the bottom of the last page of notes. Written after questions are finished.

14. Handouts Student Samples

15. Tips for Studying with Cornell Notes • Cover the right side of your notes; review and answer study questions from the left using the right side as an answer key • Quiz yourself out loud • Cover the right side with blank paper; write out answers to the left column study questions

16. Objective: • With your table group, discuss when • you should take notes in class. • Make a list. • Be prepared to share with the class!

17. When to Take Notes The speaker says to take notes The speaker says something you don’t already know The speaker presents using Powerpoint The speaker writes on the board The teacher says, “This will be on the test.”

18. S.T.A.R. Set up your paper Take the notes Apply your thinking to the notes Reflect on Revise and Review your notes.

19. Set Up Your Paper Put a proper heading in the top right corner. Name Class Period Date Save 1/3 of the left hand side of paper for questionsby folding or drawing a vertical line. Write the topic of the lecture, passage, etc in the form of an essential question.

20. Take Notes Write notes on the right side of the page Abbreviate words Paraphrase Skip at least 2 lines between each idea Use symbols, pictures, or diagrams

21. Take Notes

22. Within 24 hours of taking notes, review your notes and write questions on the left side of the page. Apply Your Thinking

23. Add a summary to your notes. Answer the essential question as your topic sentence and turn each “chunk” of information into supporting sentences. Reflect on Notes

24. Review notes with a partner and add details that you each missed. Revise Notes v v

25. Look in your textbook and add details from the book to your notes. Revise Notes v v

26. Fold your notes so that the questions show, but the notes do not. Quiz yourself or work with another student to quiz each other. Review Notes