Notebooks And Lapbooks
This group is for all things related to notebooking, lapbooking, or any combination of the two. If you aren't sure what "notebooking" or "lapbooking" are, please visit some of the lenses below to learn more about these great methods of education. If you have a certain theme for which you'd like us to create a lens, please leave a note in the comments.

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featured lens Notebooking Exhibit

You've heard about notebooking. You know it's a flexible tool that can be used with most any curriculum or homeschooling style. You've read a bit about it, but you're still not quite sure. What is notebooking? What does it actually look like, and how...

featured lens Make Your Own Notebooking Pages

So, you've done a bit of notebooking using the freebies online. Maybe you've even bought a kit or two. But now your creativity is kicking in and you want to do it yourself! Yes, you can make your own notebooking pages, even if you're not terribly co...

featured lens Notebooking

"Notebooking" is a term used to describe the process of creating a written and illustrated record of learning. Unlike other methods of education which are based on cosumable workbooks and texts, notebooking produces a journal of past educat...

featured lens Make Your Own Notebook Pages

Notebooking template pages are easy to create with a little computer knowledge and a few of these extras. Don't let the process intimidate you. Most makers of "professional" notebook pages started out just like you and learned by trial and error. You...

featured lens Homeschooling With Index Cards

We all use index cards to organize our thoughts for papers and projects, but how about to organize your self, home, life, and school? I am a homeschooling mom of 7 years, and we have always used index cards to help us each day. When my kids were you...

featured lens 50 States Notebook

The Fifty States of America is a popular notebooking topic. It can be the basis of a unit study, or it can be a supplement to your American history curriculum. When you're finished, you have a wonderful, homemade reference book.

featured lens Making A Yearbook For Your HomeSchool

At the end of third grade, my parents removed my sister and me from the private Christian school we had been attending and began home schooling. While I eventually grew to like being at home, I still to this day enjoy looking at my old school year bo...

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featured lens Lapbooking -- Frequently Asked Questions

Most any topic comes with its own set of FAQ --frequently asked questions. Lapbooking is no exception. These questions seem to be asked by most new lapbookers. The fortunate thing is that there are lots of other lapbookers who've already come up with...

featured lens How to Make Lapbook Templates in MS Word

I've spent hours figuring out how to create templates for mini-books used in lapbooking. I want to share some easy steps for you to be able to create a few basic mini-books of your own using the Microsoft Word program to hopefully save you many of th...

featured lens What To Do With Lapbook Scraps

Although lapbooking is a great educational tool, it does create an abundance of scrap paper waste. This is a major turn off for some who are considering this method of education, and a source of guilt for many avid lapbookers. But good stewardship a...

featured lens Lapbooking

Lapbooking can be done by any learner-- from preschoolers to adults. With this educational method, you make mini-books covering details that you've studied. After making a variety of mini-books about a larger topic, all the books are put together in...

featured lens Classical Music Lapbook

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. Th...

featured lens Mini Offices

A mini office is a particular application of lapbooks. Each child can make his own mini-office -- a lapbook filled with reference pages for his own learning. The sky is the limit on what you can include. Fill the mini office with the charts that your...

featured lens Sewing Lapbook

This lens provides ideas for completing a lapbook on the topic of "sewing." Follow the links to free printables for the lapbook. Graphic licensed by JupiterImages, copyright 2008.

featured lens How to Create an Animal Lapbook

Planning your own lapbook is quite do-able because of the wealth of free and instant resources available on the Internet. This lens will point you in the right directions for a free DIY animal lapbook. Once you understand the process, you can use the...

featured lens Thanksgiving Lapbook

Take a break from your regular homeschool curriculum and have a Thanksgiving unit study! History, culture, and food all come together in this topic! Create a lapbook to record what you learn. This page will direct you to great books to read and free...

featured lens Rainforest Lapbook

The tropical rainforest is a fascinating topic for a homeschool unit study! Just the botany and zoology alone could take months to cover. But there are also the history of the rainforest, the indigenous peoples of the rainforest, and the economy of...

featured lens Penguin Lapbook

The penguin makes a great unit study and topic for a lapbook. There is the biology involved in the study of the animal itself. You can also add the earth science and geography of the penguin's habitat.  Then there are great living books about pe...

featured lens Human Body Lapbook

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...

featured lens Physics Lapbook

Think physics is only for college geeks? Think again! Physics is a fascinating facet of science that is especially relevant to children -- pushing and pulling, falling and leaping are all components of this science. Even elementary students can benef...

featured lens Space Lapbook

Take advantage of children'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? Channe...

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Lenses With Both Notebooking and Lapbooking

featured lens Combining Lapbooks and Notebooks

I love to create lapbooks and use notebooking forms in our homeschool. Since we study history chronologically, I wanted to find a way to combine them both together. I came up with the LapNotebook. I have been working on this idea for quite some time,...

featured lens Viva la Mexico

Have you always wanted to visit exciting and exotic places, but haven't had the time or money? Well, now you can take that trip, without ever leaving your home! Hop on board the Lilliput Express as we go adventuring in Mexico. Bring along your camera...

featured lens Lapbooking Versus Notebooking

Lapbooking and notebooking are both popular among homeschoolers now. I will take you through some basic characteristics of each and hopefully answer these questions: What are these learning methods? How are they similar? How are they different? Whic...

featured lens Japan Unit Study

Have you always wanted to visit exciting and exotic places, but haven't had the time or money? Well, now you can take that trip, without ever leaving your home! Hop on board the Lilliput Express as we go adventuring in Japan. Bring along your camera;...

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