Our MOH Co-op is working on an Explorer lapbook. The link below will take you to photos of the lapbook as it now stands. I added comments with descriptions. I hope that helps to explain what every thing is. We will add to it as we move through history. We plan on working on this lapbook throughout Book 3. You can check back to this post and I will add files to the links below.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/24059365@N04/3297861530/in/set-72157614258270750/

      Here are the resources and templates for the mini books we have so far.

http://www.mediafire.com/myfiles.php

      This includes the following:

1. 5 Reasons to Explore

2. Anatomy of a Ship

3. Aztec and Inca

4. Cape of Good Hope

5. Caravel, Nao, Conquistadors

6. Explorer images

7. Images for some of the mini books

8. Scurvy mini book

      We have been busy working on Mystery Of History-  Book 3 in our co-op. We are working on an Explorer's Lapbook and Artists of the Renaissance lapbook that will continue throughout the whole book. I will post the mini books and pictures of  some samples of the kids lapbooks soonish.

     Last year we did several lapbooks with the elementary age groups in our co-op. Then I had several requests from our jr. high age kids to do lapbooks. I guess I thought that they would find them too childish or something. They have really impressed me so far with their work on the booklets. They have been putting even more work into them than they do on their journaling pages. I love their enthusiasm.

      In the meantime here is a link for some of the notebook pages that I have created to go with MOH Book 3, Quarter 1:

http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=68868bd3a93e1d81d2db6fb9a8902bda

The files include:

1. Wars of the Roses Mini book page- this includes several mini books, with House of Lancaster and York, and House of Tudor booklets

2. Wars of the Roses Journal page

3. Cosimo de Medici Journal page

4. Spanish Inquisition page

5. Lorenzo the Magnificent Journal page

6. Ivan the Great Journal page

7. Christopher Columbus Journal page

8. Empires of West Africa Notebook page- we cut out the 3 mini books and glued them in order with a description of each of the empires

9. The Safavid graph page goes with the Sunni & Shiite venn diagram- we folded the sheet with the diagram and cut so that it opened like a flap book, then used red for the sunni, blue for the shiite and green for both, we glued the mini diagram booklet to the bottom of the graph page

10. Da Vinci's Vintruvian Man group investigation page

11. Elizabeth I Journal page

      In response to several inquires; I am working on getting my teaching matierials together from Semester 1. I will be posting them in increments, so check back. It will take me awhile. I have to learn how to do this from scratch.

      I response to questions about parent involvement in our co-op; all parents are required to help in order to be able to participate. We have 2 moms in the 3 younger age groups and 1 in the high school group. I teach semester 1 of each book and Gina, www.homeschoolblogger.com/tlpgina , teaches semester 2. We have 7 families in our co-op. Some moms also help out by being in charge of map time, creating and leading a quiz game in our closing or hosting our quarterly mom's planning meetings.

      We have included some art projects that were appropriate to the lesson. Book 3 will lend itself to more art and music. The majority of our work has been with notebooking and lapbook type pages. There are more matierials, websites and library videos to support teaching for Books 2 and 3.

      See the previous MOH posts for more info on our co-op. I will try to answer all the questions I've gotten on my blog, email and at the MOH yahoo group as soon as we are finished with the last of our schooling in the next 2 weeks. Thanks for your patience.

-Trisha