Notebooking Exhibit

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What Does Notebooking Look Like?

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 does it work? What subjects can you use with notebooking?

You've landed on the right page. I've got lots of photos here to help you understand notebooking here on this Notebooking Exhibit.

Notebooking Exhibit #1 

the standard notebooking page

toulouse lautrec notebook

This is what many people think of when they hear "notebooking page."

In fact, this is what I first think of as well: a black and white page with lots of lines and a graphic or two. The student writes what he learned on the lines and may color in the graphics or draw his own.

These kinds of notebooking pages are easy to find for free online. You can also buy sets of themed notebooking pages.

Free Online Notebooking Pages





The Magellan page below came from Hold That Thought notebooking pages CD. The map is from Knowledge Quest.

magellan notebook page

Here is a Thomas Jefferson page that I created.

notebooking

Commercial Notebooking Sites (that also offer freebies)

Exhibit #2 

a notebook page with drawings

Columbus notebooking page



Another type of notebooking page would have text already printed on the page. The student illustrates the page with his own drawings. The examples given are from Winter Promise American Story 1 curriculum. This style of notebooking is especially good for younger students for whom writing is a real chore.

SW Indians notebooking page



CurrClick

History Scribe pages (from Westvon Products) have room for both pictures and text. In fact, all they have at top is a topic and short introductory blurb. You can see the example below. I printed it onto colored paper for more variety.

Currclick has the best prices on History Scribe sets. The best deals are the bundles.



underground RR history scribe

Exhibit #3 

a notebooking page with photographs

pueblo notebook page



pueblo village

Another kind of notebooking page is one that documents a 3D craft. Most children love making paper crafts and other messy projects. But long-term storage is always an issue. A great solution is to photograph the product and put the pictures onto a notebooking page.

To the right you can see the original craft, a pueblo village, that we wanted to document.

Exhibit #4 

a notebooking page with a minibook

Sometimes you may have some elements of lapbooking in a noteboook. Here is a minibook about Zuni pots. Instead of putting it into a lapbook, we mounted it onto a piece of cardstock for our Native American Indian notebook.

Zuni Pot Notebooking/Minibook

Zuni Pot minibook



Any minibook can be mounted into a notebook in this way. In fact, the entire lapbook could be put into a notebook. Visit this homeschool mom's creative method of doing so using duct tape!

Exhibit #5 

transform a 3D craft into a 2D notebooking page

Hopi clothing notebooking



Some 3D crafts can actually be reassembled to fit into a notebook. This diorama (pictured below) is a great example. After enjoying the project for a week or so, I give my daughter a piece of cardstock for mounting the craft. The now 2D images can be neatly filed away in the three ring binder.

Hopi Who Wore What Diorama2Hopi Who Wore What Diorama1

Exhibit #6 

one page printables -- maps and coloring pages

Other really easy things to add to a notebook are coloring pages and maps.

coloring page



A really great coloring page site is EduPics. Most of the coloring pages there are high quality and of great educational value.

notebook Viking map

native americans notebook 18



World Atlas is my favorite map site because it has almost any type of map you could want!

Exhibit #7 

realia -- real things

You can use real things in your notebooks too; it will make your notebook more similar to an old fashioned scrapbook.

Examples include


  • postcards

  • artwork

  • brochures

  • feathers or hair from animals

  • pictures cut from magazines

  • photographs from field trips


Postcards of the Mayflower and Plymouth, MA.
Pilgrims notebook page with postcards



For mounting these things in your notebooks, you need a method that will hold things in place without damaging them and allow them to be taken in and out.

We have used


  • page protectors

  • clear zipper top bags

  • photo corners


A "Wanted Poster" for Robin Hood.
Robin Hood Wanted Poster



A paragraph about Jamestown, VA.
Report on Jamestown
Report on Jamestown



This shows a cartoon styled diagram that my daughter drew to help us keep track of all the different names used during the American Revolution -- Torries, Whigs, Rebels, Yankees, Redcoats, etc.

American Revolution



And another postcard page, this time Philadelphia.

Philadelphia notebooking page

What Subjects Can You Notebook? 

Any subject at all! Look at these examples.

Composers from your composer study and art from your artist study:

BACH notebooking vermeer notebook venn diagram1

Science notebooking is easy! But don't neglect math notebooking:

Mars notebooking page math notebooking fractions

Copy poetry into a poetry notebook and do Bible notebooking too:

poetry notebooking3 Joseph Timeline2

Of course you know you can make history notebooking pages:

native americans notebook06 Government notebook page

Notebooking Themes 

Visit these other pages for more about notebooking, lapbooking, and unit studies.

 

Blogging About Notebooking 

vermeer notebooking2

Lots of people are using notebooking in their homeschools. Read some of their experiences on these blogs.
Notebooking Pages Black Friday Sale « Katie's Homeschool Cottage
Notebooking Pages Black Friday Sale. Posted on November 25, 2009 by kamrg. Black Friday Sale Event. Tired of Busywork? Seize the Most from Your Day . . . with Notebooking! Notebooking is a powerful tool that captures what your children ...
Our Busy Homeschool: Lapbooking, Notebooking, and More
We also do some notebooking. We like unit studies. One company that offers products to meet all those needs is Knowledge Box Central. I have their Mini-Lapbook on Ancient Rome. I especially like that if I do not have time to do a lot of ...
Free Thanksgiving Notebooking Pages | Pawpaw Holler Home
I've uploaded my ?Thanksgiving Memories? notebooking pages that I made last year and posted at my old site. You can find them here: Free.
Pages From My Notebook: Show your support
Pages From My Notebook. "the works of my ballpoint pen". Wednesday, December 9, 2009. Show your support. Living or working in Philly can be rough. Crime is not some theoretical political issue to be argued about, but a reality that is ...

Reproducible Craft Books 

You will find lots of easy notebooking, lapbooking, and project ideas in these books.

Online Notebook for Your Feedback 

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I welcome your comments or questions.

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    HarmonyArtMom HarmonyArtMom Oct 12, 2009 @ 5:33 pm
    This is an awesome lens Jimmie. :)

    Great resource for notebooking for both new and vets.
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    kimberlydawn kimberlydawn Jul 20, 2009 @ 6:14 am
    this is exactly what i was looking for! i have been a scrapper for 20 years and now homeschooling my daughter in the biblical principle approach, i discovered notebooking...and all tho i have read much on the subject, i needed visuals and i couldn't have asked for a better resource! thank you so very much and God Bless You!
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    Evelyn_Saenz Evelyn_Saenz Mar 31, 2009 @ 2:15 pm
    These are spectacular notebooks. When this much artistry, thought and information is put into a notebook it is a treasure to be kept and reread over and over.

    Thank you so much for sharing.
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    Eve Heaton Eve Heaton Mar 19, 2009 @ 5:16 am
    Thank you for mentioning my blog (www.sciencenotebooking.blogspot.com) on your website. I love notebooking in science and am sad I don't teach social studies as well, since all your examples above are excellent. I'm adding your site to mine!
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    Michellel Michellel Feb 19, 2009 @ 3:39 pm
    I love that wanted poster, and the colonists cartoon. Great pages! Looks like a lot of fun learning!
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