Mark Twain Life Science Workbook, Classifications of Living Organisms, Ecology, and more Biology, Study Guide and Test Prep, Interactive Notebook for Grades 5 and Up

It is a pretty good resource for life science. I started the class in the second half of the year. It will be a great resource for anyone teaching life science to 6th and 7th graders.

This is a super helpful tool for interactive notebooks. I use it in my 7th and 8th grade classes. I wont use every single one, but they offer a great visual representation for kids, and gives them a break from regular note taking. I had my school purchase true physical science and earth science versions and those are great too.

Great product. Each journal entry gives you a lesson for the left side of the journal.

Grandsons love this book..ages 7,9,12

Thank you good resource

I had been looking for science review books for my kids to use during school breaks and vacations so that their days aren’t filled with only screen time. I decided to give this Life Sciences Interactive Notebook a try. The Amazon listing said that it’s intended for a classroom setting, but as my kids have already had quite a bit of broad-based science in school, I figured they could adapt and find it useful as long as the content was good. Unfortunately, this Interactive Notebook is more heavily geared towards creating a science notebook than actually learning or reinforcing the science itself. In all fairness, at my kids’ middle school, a large part of their class work in almost all of their subjects now involves creating and maintaining their notebooks, including tables of content, page numbers, etc. That seems to be the direction schools are moving in, which I can understand as no one taught me how to take notes or what to include in my notebooks and my notes were often a mess. Additionally, I can see how after cutting out and pasting the materials from this Interactive Notebook, and then reviewing all the content in a completed science notebook might be beneficial to building on your child’s science knowledge, but so much time seems to be devoted to crafting the science notebook that the actual science learning is secondary in importance and diminished in my opinion. If you are a teacher or homeschooler using this book as a supplement to your actual teaching of the material covered in this book, then you may find this Interactive Notebook useful as an add on concept. If you were looking for a science review book as I was, you should look for something else unless you want to incorporate learning admin time to your child’s schedule.

This is a very unique format. For interactive notebook, you would think it's a workbook and maybe "interactive" means there's a website or something. Well, there weren't detailed reviews and the blurb about the book was so short when I got it. I just kind of assumed it would be a workbook. Nope. Interactive notebook means that you take this book, then you take a Mead composition notebook like for science projects and you cut up the pages in this book and it's a kit with instructions for building out pages in the plain old empty blank notebook.The kind of activities are mostly cutting out a diagram and pasting the diagram in your notebook, then pasting other smaller pics in to the correct place to complete the worksheet. It's lots of cutting and pasting and some drawing and writing. The exercises are life sciences orient, so parts of a cell, sorting plant vs animal cells (cell wall), and filling in the blanks with cut out word.The content is text heavy with instructions on how to complete the notebook and write ups about science concepts. The middle school age range seems accurate.It's a really unique style of book, and could be good for different kinds of learning. There's more moving things around and arranging things. Now I am definitely interested in this interactive notebook series.I got this for home use and not classroom use. Pages are black and white line drawings and writing, so could be xeroxed. There is some grading into in the intro pages, but no answer keys. Exercises are pretty simple, I hope, if you are teaching science. I remember all this stuff. I think you'd have to do the workbook page then use your work as the answer key, if you are using this to teach.Pages in this book are perforated to tear them out, and then are printed front and back. Since you cut out parts of pages to do the notebook, you have to be able to Xerox pages. Otherwise, when you cut up the front side, you also cut up the backside, then you can't do the activity on the back side. You have to be able to copy pages to be able to use this.

I really appreciate the almost self-guided approach that puts learning in your child’s hands. By creating a template for a scientific journal, it allows for more creativity and control, provoking more critical thought and engagement with the material. The pages seem to encourage coloring, as well, and exploring the world, using the scaffold of key concepts to build knowledge. Very cool method! I wish stuff like this had been around when I first took science classes.