The Customary System Doodle Notes
Understanding the customary system of measurement and converting customary units: 2 page visual interactive "doodle notes" set -
When students color or doodle in math class, it activates both hemispheres of the brain at the same time. There are proven benefits of this cross-lateral brain activity:
- new learning
- relaxation (less math anxiety)
- visual connections
- better memory & retention of the content!
Students fill in the sheets, answer the questions, and color, doodle or embellish. Then, they can use it as a study guide later on. Graphic doodle and sketch notes take full advantage of Dual Coding Theory (the way brains process visual and linguistic information) to maximize retention.
Content includes:
- customary units of measure
- capacity, weight, and length
- understanding and estimating with U.S. standard measurements
- converting between units
- using conversion factors & dimensional analysis to cancel units
- practice & examples
Check out the preview images for more detail about this item and the research behind it.
Visual note taking strategies like sketch notes or doodle notes are based on dual coding theory. When we can blend the text input with graphic/visual input, the student brain processes the information differently and can more easily convert the new learning into long-term memory.
This strategy also integrates the left and right hemispheres of the brain to increase focus, learning, and retention!
2 pages are included, plus answer keys, samples, and info.
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Reviews from other teachers:
-My students love doodle notes to make them more engaging and eye-catching for reference. We use these and the metric version every year!
-My middle school students love doing doodle notes and these really helped them to stay focused during our note taking time.
-My students LOVED using this!! I love showing them different styles of note taking to help students learn their style. This resource helped soo many of my gifted students understand how to take "doodle-notes"
-I used this resource with my sixth-grade students. I was so inspired by this that I created my own set of doodle notes for the following week. Thank you for this resource!
-Great addition to my interactive notebook