Note Taking Activities
Note Taking Activities
Note Taking Activities
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2. Fill a 3- x 5-inch (roughly 7.6x 12.7cm) sticky note or index card with
important facts from the reading selection.
3. Narrow down those notes to the important notes that fit on a medium-size
(approximately 3- x 3-inch or 7.7cm square) sticky note or card.
4. Narrow down those notes again to the most important notes that will fit on a
small (approximately 1x 2 inch - 2.5 x 5cm) small sticky note or card
Activity 2:
Mind-mapping… (for those who can’t draw)!
1. Brainstorm information
you Know about your chosen
topic and write it in the K
column.
Brainstorm a list of questions you Want to know about the subject and write them in
the W column. Save the KWL chart for use at the end of the lesson.
2. Select three questions you are most interested in learning about (or your
lecturer might assign one question to each student). You can then choose the
other two questions.
3. Use a word processing program to type the three questions into the
"Research Question" field on the Note-Taking Graphic Organiser (See
example below – the organiser will be on Moodle
4. Next, use library and or Internet to search for the information to answer the
three questions on their charts. Identify three "Research Sources" and write
Now write a report that includes a summary paragraph or two about each of
the questions they researched.
5. Now fill in the L column on your KWL chart with the information you have
learnt.