My granddaughter has requested to learn more about animals. She wants to know where they live, what they eat, which ones are good as pets, what they eat, where they live, and more. We are already using Animal Science PACE booklets to learn letters and sounds of letters. There's a some information provided for each animal in the Animal Science PACE but she'd like to learn more.
We are creating a lapbook this week on gerbils since Gg is our letter. It will be fun creating the lapbook as it reminds me of a scrapbook or junk journal. What's a lapbook? A lapbook is a simply a file folder that has been folded hot dog style to the existing middle and filled with mini books and foldables. The lapbook is a hands-on approach to teaching multiple topics. It can include pictures, drawings, timelines, graphs research or anything else that assist in teaching a subject.
What is the benefit of creating a lapbook? A lapbook is a hands on educational tool. I meets the various learning styles which are visual, auditory, reading/writing and kinesthetic. According to classical education style of learning children learning in three phases which are grammar, logic or dialectic, and rhetoric. Creating lapbooks help with all learning styles and phases of learning.
After searching the web for a lapbook template that I could purchase for the topic of gerbils, I could not find one. Being a designer I took the next step and designed my own. Below is a link to the gerbil lapbook we will be using. It is free for personal use in your family only! For commercial use and licensing please contact Heavenly Designs.
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Gerbil Lapbook
