This week on The Experimental Zone,  HSB blogger, Jennifer Galloway,   is our guest columnsit.  She designed and created the  human body lapbooks outlined below  for her children.    Jennifer created two versions - one for her older children and another for her kindergartener. 

When I saw these on her blog,  I knew this was a child-friendly and educational project other families would enjoy! 

Jennifer's creativity has certainly inspired me, and I hope it does you, too.  Thank you, Jennifer,  for sharing with us this week.  (After reading through the entry, check out all the active links Jennifer provided.  What a great resource!)

In addition to the lapbooks, I made an interactive learning wall to go along with our human body study.  I bought a skeleton at WalMart for $1.00.  Next, I printed name labels for various bones and put magnets on the back of the labels.  Now, the children can use the metal door in our classroom for learning their bones!

This is the lapbook  for older ages.  It is created using 3 file folders.

The front cover is the same for both ages lapbooks. On the first flap, I had each child write a word from the human body that started with the letters in thw words HUMAN BODY.  Not too diificult!

This is the lapbook opened up once.  On the left flap, a maze that starts with a skeleton.  Below it are the answers to the label-a-skeleton. ...No peeking!

The skeleton in the center can be labeled with labels stored inside a envelope which is stored placed in the "Bag-o-Bones" pocket.  The black space above that, on the right flap, is the 'body bag'.  Inside it are bone pieces that they can make into a skeleton.This is the body bag, with the parts in place.  It closes with metal brads.

This is the lapbook opened up twice. The children then label the organs in the center. The left flap has the labels in an envelope and pocket.  The answers are placed below.   (I just used paint and put an empty box over the words.)  On the right are ten pockets for 'Little known facts about the human body'.

I made up a fact cards with a picture of the fact, and I wrote the fact on the card.  Each day we worked on our books, they were given one fact card, for a total of 20.)  The other ten are on the other side of the flap.

The top photo is the lapbook opened up three times and bottom photo is the first back side and flap.  We labeled  these little organs, etc., in class together.  (The children got a big kick out of this activity.)

The organs include: the eye, ear, heart, and lungs.  On the cards beside organ diagrams, the children wrote  a little fact they thought interesting about that specific organ.

Next,  is the very back. It is to be completed when the book is finished.  I left space for them to write a little bit about what they had learned and what they liked best about the lapbook.

Younger Version

I tried to keep the theme the same, but took it down a notch for my kindergartner. This version uses 2 folders. The cover is the same as above.

Activities include:  Label the Five Senses,  a brain maze,   Label the Body Parts.(Just a link. You have to click on the label the body parts.).

 The card envelope with the labels is on with velcro.  The right side is the 'body bag', see above.

This verions also contains the same skeleton maze as the older verion, a word wearch, .Label the Face Parts.  (Again, the labels are again attached with velcro. )

On the right flap, they draw pictures of body parts that they have in pairs.

This is the back and last flap.  In the fold over envelope are cards with the body parts.  In the vinyl pockets are little pieces used to decorate the face.  In this photo, my daughter has already colored her person, sans facial features.  She had great fun with this page.  I am surprised at how much she plays with this lapbook.

Here are a few of the links I used to develop the lapbooks.

http://edtech.kennesaw.edu/web/humanbo.html

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