Lapbook

Human Body Lapbook
A Homeschool Unit Study
We all have one! We use it every moment of every day-- your incredible human body! What a personal and relevant topic of study for any child! For the younger students, your study may focus primarily on anatomy, so you will explore the body's organs and body's systems. For older students you may extend the study into physiology and add in the functioning of the human body, including its systems, tissues, and cells. Browse the ideas and links here to plan your human body lapbook, notebook, or...

Classical Music Lapbook
Music -- the often overlooked art
Music is one of those topics that we homeschool moms know we should teach our children. But whether it's because of our own lack of knowledge, a tight homeschool budget, or just a crowded schedule, music study often gets pushed to the back burner. This lens will help you painlessly educate your children about classical music through a unit study or lapbook approach.

Space Lapbook
Explore the Solar System in a Lapbook
Take advantage of a child's natural fascination with outer space and space travel with this science unit study!  What child doesn't like to pretend he's an astronaut, flying a spaceship to a distant planet or yet to be discovered galaxy? Channel that curiosity into the creation of a space lapbook! It is so much fun, the children won't realize that they are "doing school!"

Lapbooking Through the Year
and through the seasons...
Lapbooking through the year provides resources for lapbooking all year long. A lapbook is a wonderful way to educate. A lapbook is creative and it helps with retention of the information that is being learned. It also provides a lovely keepsake of your children's work. Not sure what a lapbook is??? Then check out my beginner how to lapbook or scroll down and check out the video on how to lapbook. Here is a directory of different lapbooking resouces for you to use throughout the year. I will b...

Rainforest Lapbook
The Rainforest -- a fascinating topic of study
The tropical rainforest is a fascinating topic for a homeschool unit study! Just the botany and zoology alone could take weeks to cover. There are also the history of the rainforest, the indigenous peoples of the rainforest, and the economy of the rainforest. You can cater this topic to your youngest of students by focusing on the fascinating creatures such as toucans and leopards or raise the challenge by requiring older students to explore the political issues surrounding the use and misus...

Chemistry Lapbook
Elements, Atoms, and Reactions! Oh My!
Finally we are studying chemistry for homeschool science! This year is going to be really fun! We will study the elements, learn about subatomic particles, read biographies of famous chemists, and the best part -- make lots of messy experiments! Besides all that, we'll record our learning in a lapbook or two. And we're sure to throw in some notebooking as well. So here are the free online goodies I found to supplement our Noeo Science curriculum. By the way, Noeo offers three levels of chemi...

How to Make a Lapbook
This page is on how to make a lapbook. Lapbooking has became popular over the last several years. Lapbooking started off as a homeschool thing and has now spread to the classroom as more classroom teachers discover the fun and education value of a lapbook. Lapbooks are easy to make, do not cost a lot of money (especially if you use free printables or Dinah Zike's methods) and they provide a lot of learning and retention for children. Lapbooks can be used from toddler age all the way through h...

Bird Lapbook
A bird lapbook is a good way to study birds with children! This year, my little guy is planning on doing the bird watching project for 4-H. It has gotten me interested in what other bird projects and activities we can do. I think studying birds is a fun way to learn science and a great introduction to nature studies. A bird lapbook is another project that children can do to learn about birds. This page has lots of resources to make a bird lapbook. If you are unfamiliar to what a lapbook is, ...