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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Note Taking Strategies

For Students 11th - 12th
Note taking involves recording ideas and facts that you learn in class to help you remember and use them later. It is important because you become active in the learning process. Good notes create a complete history of the course content...
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College of St. Benedict: Lecture Note Taking

For Students 9th - 10th
This site contains information on taking notes during lectures and gives signal words to listen for during the lecture.
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Other

Math power.com: Note Taking Tips for Math

For Students 9th - 10th
Let Professor Freedman's MathPower site help you take better notes in math class. Clear and easy to follow tips are provided.
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Keene College

Keene State College: No Nonsense Note Taking

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from Keene State College contains information on the No Nonsense Note-taking Method. Which explains how to take notes correctly and efficiently.
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LD Online

Ld Online: Helping Your Child With Organization and Study

For Students 9th - 10th
On this site on study skills, scroll about 3/4 of the way down the page for a section on note taking. Content includes some helpful hints to improve your note taking, taking notes from reading vs. listening to lectures, and different...
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Note Taking Techniques

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A five-slide presentation explaining techniques writers can use to take effective notes while gathering information for a research project. SL.9-10.1a Prepared/Discuss
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Note Taking: Word Selection

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A screencast lesson [8:35] explaining how to determine which information is necessary and relevant when taking notes.
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Curated OER

Biz/ed: Note Taking

For Students 9th - 10th
This webiste from Biz/ed discusses taking notes in class and taking notes from written sources. It lists some tips on how to improve your technique on taking notes in class, and lists five different methods and the...
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Mind Tools

Mind Tools: Mind Maps: A Powerful Approach to Note Taking

For Students 9th - 10th
An excellent resource for learning about the organizational concepts of the Mind Map. The site includes definition, uses, and examples. This technique would work especially well for visual learners.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: How to Take Research Notes

For Students 9th - 10th
This tutorial focuses on how to take research notes using two slideshows. The first presentation compares taking research notes to class notes and offers 3 methods of note taking that would work for either: Cornell notes, index cards,...
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Colorado State University

Colorado State Writing Center: Taking Notes

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides essential and additional information concerning note-taking skills, in settings such as lectures, discussions, and research papers.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Paraphrasing While Listening and Taking Notes

For Students 10th - 12th
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Learn to paraphrase a speaker's remarks in the process of your note taking.
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Online Writing Lab at Purdue University

Purdue University Owl: Observing

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This entry focuses on observation as a primary research tool. It covers topics including participation alters the outcome, observation and interpretation are separate, note-taking vs recording, and paying attention to details.
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Virginia Tech

Beehive Wordpress: The Cornell System

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource gives information on the Cornell Note-taking System. It gives the three steps involved in this process.
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Curated OER

Clip Art by Phillip Martin: Note Taking

For Students 3rd - 8th
A clipart illustration by Phillip Martin titled "Note Taking."
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Other

Reading Quest: Strategies for Reading Comprehension: Column Notes

For Teachers 9th - 10th
An informational look at two and three-column note formats, complete with definitions, uses, and examples of each. A variation of the Cornell note-taking system.

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