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Lesson Plan: Note-Taking Skills. Subjects Language Arts (Study Skills) Note: This activity can be used with a selection from literature or nonfiction reading materials related to science, history, and many other subjects.

Lesson Plan: Note-Taking Skills

Grade 3-5 6-8 9-12 Advanced [facebookbadge] Brief Description A brief Amelia Earhart biography is used to teach the skill of summarizing. Objectives Students will listen to or read a brief biography of Amelia Earhart or a selection of the teacher's choice. Keywords summary, summarize, note taking, Earhart, detail, notes, listening, study skills, research Materials Needed[shopmaterials] a brief biography of Amelia Earhart, or another grade-appropriate reading selection Lesson Plan About the Lesson This is the first of three lessons that employ a brief biography of Amelia Earhart as the starting point for the note-taking exercises. In this lesson, The Long and Short of It: Summarizing Important Details, students practice summarizing a brief reading/listening selection.

Assessment Lesson Plan Source Submitted By. 6 Great Note-Taking Tools for Students and Teachers. One of the best things about education technology is that it has allowed students and teachers alike to turn to online annotation and records, making hastily scrawled, illegible scribbles and coffee-stained pages a thing of the past.

6 Great Note-Taking Tools for Students and Teachers

From university students keeping track of lectures to young students making plans and mind maps, there is an online note-taking tool to suit everyone… 1. Study Blue A great site that allows students to create online flash cards, study guides and quizzes. These learning resources are stored online, making heavy folders and easily-misplaced notebooks redundant, as students can simply login anywhere anytime and use their notes to revise, or test themselves using their flashcards. 2. A brilliantly simple online interactive whiteboard, Scriblink allows notes to be shared as they’re created. 3. Perfect for individual students, Penzu is the online version of the old-fashioned notebook or journal in which you build up your body of lecture or class notes.

Scriblink - Your Online Whiteboard. 8 Awesome Tools to Quickly Take Notes and Annotate Webpages. Most of the research one does nowadays, be it of any kind and in any area, requires that significant time be spent browsing online and scouring through all kinds of websites and encyclopedias.

8 Awesome Tools to Quickly Take Notes and Annotate Webpages

After all, the internet is an ocean of knowledge. Where else would one find such information that’s readily available? Now, when you do research for something on the web, it’s imperative that you take notes and capture some stuff for checking out later. Using methods like copy & pasting and sending emails to yourself are passe. You don’t need to go through those tedious processes when there are brilliant note taking tools available.

This article lists eight such note taking and web page annotation tools to help you in capturing and organizing information productively. 1. It also provides a small utility called the web clipper which lets you quickly capture text and images from web pages and transfer them to your Evernote account. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. Cheers, Abhijeet. Note taking.