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Lapbooking through the Earth Science with the Sassafras Twins 3 Lapbooking through Earth Science Table of Contents Introduction...............................................................................................5 Supply List.......................................................................................................8 Lesson pages...................................................................................................9 Prairie Mini-Lapbook............................................................11 Prairie Mini-Lapbook Overview 11 Prairie Mini-Lapbook: Lesson 1 12 Prairie Mini-Lapbook: Lesson 2 13 Possible Schedule for the Prairie Mini-Lapbook 14 Rainforest Mini-Lapbook......................................................15 Rainforest Mini-Lapbook Overview 15 Rainforest Mini-Lapbook: Lesson 1 16 Rainforest Mini-Lapbook: Lesson 2 17 Possible Schedule for the Rainforest Mini-Lapbook 18 Tundra And Taiga Mini-Lapbook.........................................19 Tundra and Taiga Mini-Lapbook Overview 19 Tundra and Taiga Mini-Lapbook: Lesson 1 20 Tundra and Taiga Mini-Lapbook: Lesson 2 21 Possible Schedule for the Tundra and Taiga Mini-Lapbook 22 Desert Mini-Lapbook...........................................................23 Desert Mini-Lapbook Overview 23 Desert Mini-Lapbook: Lesson 1 24 Desert Mini-Lapbook: Lesson 2 25 Possible Schedule for the Desert Mini-Lapbook 26 Mountains Mini-Lapbook....................................................27 Mountains Mini-Lapbook Overview 27 Mountains Mini-Lapbook: Lesson 1 28 Mountains Mini-Lapbook: Lesson 2 29 Possible Schedule for the Mountains Mini-Lapbook 30 Boreal Forest Mini-Lapbook.................................................31 Boreal Forest Mini-Lapbook Overview 31 Boreal Forest Mini-Lapbook: Lesson 1 32 Boreal Forest Mini-Lapbook: Lesson 2 33 Possible Schedule for the Boreal Forest Mini-Lapbook 34 Ocean Mini-Lapbook...........................................................35 Ocean Mini-Lapbook Overview 35 Ocean Mini-Lapbook: Lesson 1 36 Ocean Mini-Lapbook: Lesson 2 37 Possible Schedule for the Ocean Mini-Lapbook 38 Lapbooking through the Earth Science with the Sassafras Twins 4 Deciduous Forest Mini-Lapbook............................................39 Deciduous Forest Mini-Lapbook Overview 39 Deciduous Forest Mini-Lapbook: Lesson 1 40 Deciduous Forest Mini-Lapbook: Lesson 2 41 Possible Schedule for the Deciduous Forest Mini-Lapbook 42 Appendix........................................................................................................43 Lapbooking through Earth Science Cover Page 44 Lab Report 45 Book Narration 47 Blank Vocabulary Cards 48 Templates............................................................................................................T1 Prairie Lapbooking Templates T3-T8 Rainforest Lapbooking Templates T9-T14 Tundra and Taiga Lapbooking Templates T15-T20 Desert Lapbooking Templates T21-T26 Mountains Lapbooking Templates T27-T34 Boreal Forest Lapbooking Templates T35-T40 Ocean Lapbooking Templates T41-T46 Deciduous Forest Lapbooking Templates T47-T52 Lapbooking through the Earth Science with the Sassafras Twins 5 Introduction Lapbooking through the Earth Science with the Sassafras Twins is a unique and versatile program that leads you through a survey of weather and our planet using a series of eight mini-lapbooks to document the journey. The program is centered around the living book, The Sassafras Science Adventures Volume 4: Earth Science. It is designed to be a gentle approach to homeschool science education based on the Unit Study method suggested in Success in Science: A Manual for Excellence in Science Education by Bradley and Paige Hudson. What is a lapbook? Lapbooks are educational scrapbooks that fit into the lap of a students. Typically they are a collection of related mini-books on a certain subject that have been glued into a file folder for easy viewing, but they can also include pictures or projects that the students have completed. In the same way that notebooking does not require regurgitation of facts; lapbooking causes the students to interact with the materials instead of just responding to comprehension questions. Lapbooks are extremely versatile because they can be used in conjunction with any subject the students are learning about. They are excellent tools to use with elementary students as a way of reinforcing what they are learning because this age group tends to prefer a more creative format of notebooking. The heartbeat of the lapbook is the mini-books that are placed inside. Each of these booklets contains information on topics related to the main subject of the lapbook. They can be in a variety of shapes and sizes, but the cover should have a picture related to the subject as well as a title. The interior of each booklet should contain several sentences detailing what the students have learned about the topic in their own words. The mini-books will each pertain to different sub-topics of the main topic. So for instance, for this lapbook your main topic is plants and your related mini-books are on the types of leaves, the kinds of flowers, the parts of a seed and more. Lapbooks serve as beautiful scrapbooks that the students can continue to learn from for years to come, which makes them a beneficial addition to a students’ science education. A mini-lapbook is simply a smaller version of a full-sized lapbook. What is included in this program? Lapbooking through Earth Science with the Sassafras Twins includes all of the basic components of elementary science education that are explained in Success in Science. 1. Science-Oriented Books — Elementary students are an empty bucket waiting to be filled with information and science-oriented books are a wonderful way to do that. These books can include appropriate children’s science encyclopedias, living books for science and/or children’s non-fiction science books. In this program, the reading assignments are from the living book, The Sassafras Science Adventures Volume 4: Earth Science. I have also included a list of additional books from the library. 2. Notebooking — The purpose of the notebooking component for elementary science education is to verify that the students have placed at least one piece of information into their knowledge bucket. You can use notebooking sheets, lapbooks, and/or vocabulary words to fulfill this Lapbooking through the Earth Science with the Sassafras Twins 6 requirement. This unit includes all the templates and pictures you will need to complete a series of mini-lapbooks as well as vocabulary words to coordinate with each lesson. 3. Scientific Demonstrations or Observations —Scientific demonstrations and observations are meant to spark the students’ enthusiasm for learning science, to work on their observation skills and to demonstration the principles of science for them. This component of elementary science education can contain scientific demonstrations, hands-on projects and/or nature studies. Each lesson in this guide includes a suggested scientific demonstration to fulfill this section of elementary science instruction. These concepts are more fully developed in our book, or you can read the following articles from to learn