|Back to Taking Notes Lesson Plan| Use crayons or markers to
teach note-taking skills. note taking, notes, study skills,
research, Earhart, theme About the Lesson This lesson employs a
brief biography of Amelia Earhart as the starting point for
note-taking exercises. The Earhart biography is only a suggested
starting point for this lesson, however. You can substitute any
piece of literature for the selection, or provide additional
note-taking practice by repeating this lesson with a variety of
content-rich, subject-related reading material. Very often,
students read for a specific purpose rather than general
information. For example, if students are working on reports
about the causes of the Civil War, they will likely skim many
Civil War resources to find the sections of those resources
about the specific topic. That means students will be
"eliminating" a lot of information as they skim for details
about the causes of the war. In this activity, students skim a
brief biography of Amelia Earhart -- or another