Power Notes is a strategy that teaches students an efficient form of organizing information from assigned text. This technique provides students a systematic way to look for relationships within material they are reading. Power Notes help visually display the differences between main ideas and supportive information in outline form. Main ideas or categories are assigned a power 1 rating. Details and examples are assigned power 2s, 3s, or 4s.

Structured Notetaking is a strategy that helps students become more effective note takers. Using graphic organizers specific to a particular text, structured notes assist students in understanding the content of their reading.

This resource gives information on the Cornell Note-taking System. It gives the three steps involved in this process.

Links to 75 lessons and activities that build student skills in standard W.3.8: Recall information from experiences or gather information from print and digital sources, take brief notes on sources and sort evidence into provided categories.

Work in a group to create a study guide that helps you prepare for an upcoming test or assignment. Time to complete: 45-90 minutes

In this video segment from WILD TV, a scientist in the Florida Everglades talks about her research on the pig frog. [6:25]

The Flip Book is designed to allow users to type and illustrate tabbed flip books up to ten pages long. Students and teachers can use the flip book for taking notes while reading, making picture books, collecting facts, or creating question and answer booklets.

In this free tutorial, you will learn the basics of Google Keep such as creating a note, adding collaborators, and other organizational tips.

Lessons include: (1) Getting Started. In this lesson, learn the basics of Google Keep. (2) Collaborator Tool. In this Google Keep lesson, learn how to use the Collaborator tool. (3) Organizing Notes. In this Google Keep lesson, learn how to organize your notes.

Share news about your family by making a family newsletter in Google Docs. Time to complete: 45-90 minutes

A useful site that gives information on how to make note cards when writing a research report or project. Provides examples and tips.

A great resource for putting together all of a student's possible sources onto note cards for later using in citing.

In this video segment from WILD TV, a guide describes how to camouflage a personŒë_í_Œ_ body to avoid being detected in the wilderness.

This video tutorial introduces how to use concept maps and flowcharts to take notes for writing a paper or taking notes in class. It is 1 of 3 in the series titled "Note Taking: Concept Maps and Flowcharts." [7:20]

This article describes the importance of teaching students the strategy of note taking and includes a template for use with elementary students.

A screencast lesson [8:35] explaining how to determine which information is necessary and relevant when taking notes.

In this video segment from Nature, animal lovers talk about their experiences having pigs as pets.

Useful for a wide variety of reading and writing activities, this outlining tool allows students to organize up to five levels of information.

Contains plans for a lesson on taking notes that is part of a larger unit on researching a state symbol. It works on skills like figuring out what information is relevant and irrelevant, using a variety of sources, and paraphrasing. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used in the lessons as well as assessment and reflection activities.