In my
previous post I mentioned that with all the media coverage of the Japan earthquake, we would start a unit study of them. We opted to make a lapbook with our study. Indy really enjoys making lapbooks and I do too, I just forget about them.
Homeschoolshare.com has loads of FREE lapbook components and information on a wealth of subjects (we started on their HUGE volcano unit week). All of the parts of this lapbook came from them.
Cover:
Inside:
We didn't have enough room in the basic folder for all the components,
so I added another sheet of heavy card stock to make a flap that opens
and give him more room to put things. Here it is open:
Area under the flap. We made booklets with info on the Haiti and Japan earthquakes:
Close up of one of the components (notice the neat handwriting!):
Indy really enjoyed learning about the earthquakes and has been riveted to the news to get the latest information on what's going on in Japan.