Sketch notes weren’t a new learning for me.  A grade 8 teacher recently introduced me to sketch notes while listening to a podcast.  I find them a neat alternative to regular note taking-not all kids are into copying or making notes the regular copying way.  This teacher encouraged students to add colour and use things within their notes that would help them to remember what they meant.

I was excited to try sketch notes on my own.  Mine do not have colour as I find this too busy for me, and mine have more words then pictures as I am not the best drawer and I find that I learn better by the use of words.  I used quick jot notes instead of long passages and a few little drawings when I felt like it was important.  I really like this task as I think it would be a great strategy for the classroom as students can have a little bit of choice how they make their notes.

Here is an example of my sketch notes on our Residential School learning