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Well, this year we have been studying Earth Science. Recently we covered a chapter about volcanoes in our Science Book. My kids seemed very interested, so we decided to make some volcano Folder Books (also known as lap books).I promised photos of them, so HERE THEY ARE!
This first photo shows the front cover of my son's:
This next photo shows my son's book with the two front flaps opened up. We have also been studying the Byzantine era in History, and one of our assignments was to make a Mosaic, so we incorporated our History and Science together and made a paper Volcano Mosaic for the center flap of our folder book.
This next photo shows the whole inside of the book when you lift up the center flap:
Now, because I thought I might need a closer view of some of the stuff inside, so I also took this (notice that I moved the wheel that shows the three states of a volcano, now it is showing information about an active volcano):
My five year old daughter's volcano had all the same info, but she chose her own layout for some of it, here are a few shots of hers:
First, the Cover:
Then the inside with the center flap down:
Then with the flap up:
Here mini-books had exactly the same thing in them, so I won't post separate photos of them.
Now, here is the really neat part. Except for the cost of basic materials such as file folders, glue, construction paper, and printer ink, these folder books cost me nothing. I found all of the materials on-line. The wheel in the center was a free sample from Hands of a Child. The rest of the stuff either came out of the reproducibles in our science book (Christian Kids Explore Earth and Space), or were things I found on-line by Googling things like "Tectonic Plates", "Volcanoes", and "Magma Chamber". Unfortunately, I forgot to save the links to all the sites I found so that I could share them on here. I guess if you want to do these, you'll have to do some searching on your own!
Now, here is the really neat part. Except for the cost of basic materials such as file folders, glue, construction paper, and printer ink, these folder books cost me nothing. I found all of the materials on-line. The wheel in the center was a free sample from Hands of a Child. The rest of the stuff either came out of the reproducibles in our science book (Christian Kids Explore Earth and Space), or were things I found on-line by Googling things like "Tectonic Plates", "Volcanoes", and "Magma Chamber". Unfortunately, I forgot to save the links to all the sites I found so that I could share them on here. I guess if you want to do these, you'll have to do some searching on your own!
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