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Our co-op is doing a unit study on the Civil War this semester.  I've decided to do a lapbook to go along with it.  I don't know if it will be helpful to anyone outside of our co-op or not.  We do a lot of hands on activities in our co-op and this lapbook is based off of what we will be learning each week.  I will post a new entry each time I get a section finished. 

This is a link to the free book download from WOWIO. This is the book that we based our Civil War Co-op off of. The book is called Great Civil War Projects You Can Build Yourself.

This is pretty much just my planning page of topics and booklet ideas for each topic.  I had grades K-5 in mind when designing this.  I hope it will benefit someone!

Civil War Lapbook

1. Map (use the blank map made in class)

2. Important People (Side by Side 4 books)

3. Timeline/dates of important battles

4. Bugles (layered book; why were they used, who were the buglers, important facts, other jobs)

5. Drums (cylinder shape book)

6. Taps (shutter fold, notes and verses)

7. Vocabulary (pocket, ongoing each week)

Additional options for older kids

-causes of the war

-Emancipation Proclamation

-Gettysburg Address

-first aid/stretchers

8. Why flags were used (matchbook)

9. Flag Protocol (flag shaped fan book)

10. Different flags (tab book)

Older kids

-importance of photography

11. Underground Railroad

12. Uniforms (who wore what? Multi page popup)

13. Civil War Quilts (simple fold decorated as quilt square with info inside)

14. Civil War dolls (simple fold)

15. A new way of fighting- periscopes

16. At camp (week 4 and 5; a recipe and a shelter; flapbook with cover)

17. Signal flags (t book)

18. Flag signals (use page from book)

19. Telegraph (flip book; inventor, telegraphers, why it’s important)

20. Morse code (simple fold, use code in book)

21. Ships (side tab book 3 divisions)