• Jan. 15, 2008
Civil War Lapbook Weeks 2 and 3
**Edited on 4-29-08
**Click this link to see nice, ready made templates for a Civil War Lapbook. http://www.homeschoolshare.com/civil_war_lapbook_templates.php **
Week 2 Directions*Don’t forget to keep adding vocabulary cards as you come across new words.
Vocabulary-
Regimental flags- Flags used to represent different groups of soldiers
Color Guard- group of men who carried the flags into battle
8. Why flags were used
Use a simple matchbook for this book. Put the title and possibly a picture on the outside and write your answer on the inside.
Matchbook
9. Flag protocol
Use the flag shaped fan book for this. You will cut out the individual fans and use a brad to fasten them together. The top page will be the title page with the inside pages containing the info that Charity taught this week. To attach to the lapbook, you can either glue down the last page or put the brad all the way through the folder. For now, you will put in in the Ziploc bag with the rest of the mini books you’ve made.
Flag Book
10. Different Flags
This book would work well as a tab book or a popup book. If you use the tab book, try to print on colored paper. It just looks nicer! Label the tabs with the different types of flag and draw or paste a picture of that flag along with some info about it. If you’d like to use a pop-up book there are directions at this link. You will want to make the book smaller than shown to best fit your lapbook. To make it multi page, make several popups and slip them inside each other. Staple at the top.
Tab Book
*Don’t forget to keep adding vocabulary cards as you come across new words.
Vocabulary-
Recruit- to get people to join the military
Abolitionist- a person who was involved in doing away with slavery
Fugitive- a person who is running away
Slavery- being bound to serve as property of another person
11. Underground Railroad
See directions for booklet on the next page. You can use some of the clipart I’ve provided or use your own. You can also add pages as necessary.- just repeat steps 3 and 4.
12. Uniforms- who wore what
You can use the template for a twice folded book or you can make a popup book (see the link above). Put a picture on the union uniform on one side and the confederate on the other. Write the info about them inside.
Twice Folded Book
13. Civil War Quilts
Simply fold a piece of paper in half then cut to look like a square that is the size you need. Draw a picture of the quilt pattern on the outside. On the inside you can write directions for making the quilt or information about who made the quilts and why.
14. Civil War Dolls
Another simple fold of whatever size you need. If you wanted to, you could cut out into the shape of a person and decorate that way. Inside put the information your child would like to remember.
**If you have a teen making a lapbook to go along with the co-op, this week they will want to make a booklet on the importance of photography in the war.**
