SKILL: Cornell Notes
Learning Targets
Learning Targets
You should be able to:
- Organize your notes to reflect flow and
- Determine what is essential learnings based on the learning target(s)
- Categorize notes for main ideas
- Summarize learning based on notes
How do you notes meet the required (3) expectations? How can you enrich your work to get so it exceeds expectations (4)?
The focus for the unit is Cornell notes to help you organize, process, and reflect on what you are learning.
The focus for the unit is Cornell notes to help you organize, process, and reflect on what you are learning.
These are just ideas of how to structure your notes to get some inspiration. Notes can be all or none of these ideas...there are many opportunities for taking notes!
Cornell Notes Format
Cornell Notes Format
The overview below should be helpful as a reference for when you are working on Cornell notes for this unit. Please work on trying new things so that you can find a way for Cornell notes to work for you, now and in future learning experiences.
***Example to provide inspiration & ideas***
Main Ideas: Outline to guide what your notes are out, chunking your notes into manageable sections
Main Ideas: Outline to guide what your notes are out, chunking your notes into manageable sections
Notes: Anything you think is important, what you want to record, what stands out to you...
Notes: Anything you think is important, what you want to record, what stands out to you...
- Bullet points of ideas
- Drawings or visuals
- Maps
- Abbreviations and short-hand
- Flow charts
- Timelines
- Outline with less detail beneath other ideas
- Symbols! Why write when you can convey an idea differently?!
Summary: Focus on what you learned or what you think was important about the notes
Summary: Focus on what you learned or what you think was important about the notes
- Are you using the learning standards to check and make sure you understood and recorded enough to demonstrate what you learned?