Carrying on from Lapbooking 101 – for 12 year olds and up.

Checking out more research and planning ideas, plus an experimentation or 2 on digital lapbooks.

For use more with preschool and primary children

§         A “mini-office” is like a little study corral or “busy book”, which enables the children to take their most commonly used reference materials in the van, to bed …
§         A “mini-office” is an organisational tool for drill sheets and other papers (like writing check lists and word lists) that the students for quick-reference when writing or studying.
§         especially useful as a busy book for little children to ‘read’ by themselves, with Mother or other older person.
§         It contains reference material - may include alphabet, numbers, colours, key words or names of family and friends … many possibilities – for different age groups.
§         Can be done for a particular subject, eg science, or topic, eg Human Body, or for different grades/levels.
§         Have it laminated or covered in clear contact/adhesive plastic.  

http://www.busyteacherscafe.com/mini_offices.htm
http://www.teachingheart.net/minioffice.html [scroll down]

http://shadow-earth.com/archives/9 – for older child
http://shadow-earth.com/archives/15

Clear photos and instructions here for a mathematics mini-office:
http://sheilasjourney-sheila.blogspot.com/2008/04/math-lapbook-mini-office.html

links checked Sept.2009

movie theme notes and a breezy tour through many of the themes of the latest Pixar offering : UP.

Carefully chosen entries from YouTube helped this study to come alive, especially the sections on Helium and the Angel Falls.

Has been an interesting and thought-provoking study. I presented this info to the kids as “a whirlwind mix of interesting topics” and told the chn about going to the movie when we’d finished the 2-3 weeks of quick study.

You may like this real story of Ethel and her house :

http://www.seattlepi.com/local/333917_macefield02.html

http://ciaralira.wordpress.com/2009/06/06/disneys-up-in-ballard/

http___www.lib.iastate.edu_spcl_gwc_bio

http___www.invent.org_hall_of_fame_30

http___www.ideafinder.com_history_inventors_carver

http___www.gale.cengage.com_free_resources_bhm_bio_carver_g

http___library.thinkquest.org_2667_Carver

http___gardenofpraise.com_ibdcarve

http___en.wikipedia

PDFS OF WEB PAGES about George Washington Carver

Can study as part of:

Nutrition, history, inventors, inventions, black history, african american, south, peanuts,

Check these out: Don’t be too quick to click it on to next frame.

*** http://www.bitbybit.co.nz/business/ppt/Monarchs.pps *** – worth
studying – starts with life cycle; some pp from a NZ perspective, Nth
America details about pg49)

Butterflies and Moths ppt – a big WOW! if you’re in to butterflies and
moths (in NZ); first few pages compare butterflies and moths
http://www.bitbybit.co.nz/business/ppt/NZButterflies&Moths%20BP.ppt

http://www.bitbybit.co.nz/business/ppt/EIFS_presentation_final.ppt -
Flowers That Fly - interesting

http://www.landcareresearch.co.nz/research/biosystematics/invertebrates/invertid/bug_details.asp?Bu_Id=133

http://monarch.org.nz/monarch/forum/ - forum – alse see word tags on
RHS

Enjoy!!
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Butterflies – metamorphosis

http://insectlore.com
http://www.insectlore.com/xlorepedia_stuff/butterflies.html http://www.insectlore.com/xlorepedia_stuff/monarch.html

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/butterfly/ Label the parts of various insects (one that flies and one that crawls)http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/insects/printouts.shtml http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/butterflies/activities/ http://www.enchantedlearning.com/crafts/butterfly/
http://www.learningpage.com/free_pages/galleries/insects.html
To download this month’s special Creepy Crawlies collection, visit:
http://www.learningpage.com/free_pages/home/spring_fun.html

http://www.homeschoolshare.com/butterfly_lapbook.php - helps for creating your lapbook

http://insected.arizona.edu/bflyinfo.htm >> http://www.monarchlab.umn.edu/research/PNE/pne.html http://www.allabery.com/courses/webquest/harper/index.html – webquest
http://www.edhelper.com/AnimalReadingComprehension_75_1.html http://mpin.nbii.org/insects/kidsbutterfly/ – colouring pages, life cycle
http://kecirohomeschool.com/butterflypage.htm – games, activities, lifecycle links
http://ishoptoday.com/ishop_free.htm has a free unit on Butterflies and Moths [7-10yo].
It is a good example as to what the units look like from http://www.schoolexpress.com
http://www.theteacherscorner.net/thematicunits/insect3.htm http://www.ebookdestination.com/estore/product/TCR2372 – free teacher sample (Teacher Created Materials), including ‘Very Hungry Caterpillar’ outline. Not all learning will be on paper in the lapbook.
http://www.shrewsbury-ma.gov/schools/beal/curriculum/butterfly/butterflies.html
http://www.shrewsbury-ma.gov/schools/beal/curriculum/butterfly/teachers.html http://www.coe.iup.edu/worldofkindergarten/I/instac.html this lists lots of insect activities that could be applied to a lapbook – wealth of info on various topics!http://www.kent.k12.wa.us/KSD/GR/curriculum/4th/butterflies.htm

CONCEPT IDEAS

DESCRIBE

Life Cycle
http://www.geocities.com/wyllz/id177.htm – photosThis site has a wheel book for polar animals and another for the life cycle of a butterfly, a frog, and a hatching egg.
Circle book for butterfly at:
http://www.kizclub.com/animalcrafts.html – Look under life cycle p3
At www.windmill.net.au search code AJ12368  AJ12367 or do a search on frog life cycle & butterfly life cycle. Click on red camera for a photo.
http://www.hhmi.org/coolscience/butterfly/index.html – activity helps to illustrate life cycle, good graphic. Could also use ‘inch square’ pages with a butterfly.
www.learningpage.com – Creepy Crawlies worksheets – butterfly life cycle worksheet. Free membership.  Cockroach story includes butterflies/insects.
http://www.learningpage.com/pages/menu_wkshts/plans_insects.html

Camouflage …
Be intrigued by insect’s abilities to blend in with nature, or use their appearance to intimidate predators, like the spots on a moth’s wings appear to be eyes, etc. http://www.scholastic.com/magicschoolbus/games/teacher/butterflies/index.htm http://www.scholastic.com/magicschoolbus/games/teacher/butterflies/print.htm – activity sheet

What makes an insect different than an arachnid or true bug. Contrast/ compare. Venn diagram.

BIG PICTURE

Food Chain …
http://insected.arizona.edu/lesson_07/default.htm – nutrition
How insects stack up on the food chain, and where the world would be without them.
What eats Insects vs. What Insects eat – could do a lift the flap with pictures of various insects and things they eat vs. pictures of insects and animals that eat them

Pollination …
Where would the flowers be without their insect friends.

HABITAT & DISTRIBUTION  

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/alienempire/voyagers.html – Monarch migration
 
Tracking …

Follow the migration patterns of the Monarch Butterfly. There are sites you can read about online, students tag the butterflies and they go all the way down to South America from up North.   Map of U.S. (or World) and color according to where certain insects are found.

ETC…

Edibles …
Recipes for making bugs, eating bugs, and feeding bugs would be fun.

Inspiration Spot

• use imagination – will poetry or creative writing come from here? a shape story? a picture? a song? remind you of another story?
• www.readwritethink.com heaps!! Try a Diamante poem.
• Make an insect poem and practice handwriting/creative writing:
  http://www.nlsd.ab.ca/schools/veram/cyberbug/bug_poems.htm
• The music plays in the background while my 6 year old daughter flutters around in her butterfly wings being the Sugar Plum Fairy.
• Butterfly kisses and Velcro hugs
• http://www.homeschoolshare.com/very_hungry_caterpillar.htm  – Eric Carle
• http://www.billybear4kids.com/butterfly/flutter-fun.html – craft, jigsaw, puzzles, font, etc
• Make caterpillars using the bottom of egg cartons.
• Is this true? Butterflies taste with their feet.
• http://search.yahooligans.com/search/ligans?p=butterfly%20insects – just in case you haven’t got a zillion bits already.

THE BUTTERFLY STORY

A story about the wisdom of suffering. A man found a butterfly cocoon. One day a small opening appeared and he sat and watched the butterfly as it struggled for several hours to force its body through the little hole. Then it seemed to stop making any progress. It appeared that it had gotten as far as it could.

The man decided to help the butterfly, so he took a pair of scissors and snipped of the remaining bit of cocoon. The butterfly then emerged easily but it had a swollen body and small, shrivelled wings. The man expected that at any moment the wings would expand and be able to support the body, but this never happened.

The butterfly spent its whole life crawling around with a swollen body unable to fly. The restricting cocoon and the struggle required to get through the tiny opening were needed to force fluid from the body of the butterfly into its wings so that it would be ready for flight when it achieved freedom.

Sometimes struggles are just what we need in life. If we went through life without obstacles, it would cripple us spiritually. We would not be as strong as we could have been. And we would never fly.

Further information about monarch butterflies

• www.monarchwatch.org
• www.kidzone.ws/animals/monarch_butterfly.htm
• www.monarch-butterfly.com
• monarchlab.org/research/PNE/pne.html
• www.newzealandbutterflies.org.nz

 Resources and Web Sites

http://webtech.kennesaw.edu/kmcdavid/shunt.htm  This site is web quest in its own right. It starts with a legend. There is a list of questions. Each question is a link to a web page where the children can find the answer to that question. It also has links to other activities and the word butterfly in many different languages.
http://www.hhmi.org/coolscience/butterfly/index.html Art activity make your own chrysallis and emerging butterfly
http://www.foremost.com/butterflies/kid_stuff.htm   A diary written from the caterpillars point of view. Could be a good written lang activity. Also colouring in pages xwords etc http://monarchwatch.org/gallery/class/long1.htm    Worksheet examples
http://monarchwatch.org/gallery/class/long3.htm http://www.zoomschool.com/subjects/butterfly/species/Monarch.shtml   Zoom butterflies page pictures and general information http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/butterfly/activities/printouts/lifecycle.shtml  A life cycle diagram
http://monarchwatch.org/order/index.htm   Butterfly books and products
http://monarchwatch.org/order/posters.htm   Some posters in pdf format I haven’t tried these so I don’t know how relevant they are. 
http://www.ecotours.co.nz/webforum/ecoforum/index.phtml?subject=view&msg=48 – enemies, alt food source

In New Zealand, small over-wintering swarms have been found in coastal areas, for example, Church Hill, Nelson, where they spend from April-May to September. Other wintering sites include Kaeo (Tauranga Bay), Manaia and Hastings. The butterflies are not totally dormant – they will start to fly if the weather warms up, and feed at flowers.
No New Zealand records have been found from before the 1860s-70s, though it is notable that there is a Maori name – ‘kakahu’ – for this butterfly. Records suggest this species migrated quickly across the Pacific Ocean, reaching Hawaii in 1840, Pohnpei 1857, Tonga 1863, Samoa 1867, Rarotonga 1869, Brisbane 1870, Melbourne 1872, NZ 1873, Tahiti 1972.
The first confirmed New Zealand record in 1873.
Monarch butterflies breed here, depending on the introduced swan plant as a host for its caterpillars.

Monarchs in the City: Ambassadors for Invertebrate BiodiversitySteve Pawson (University of Canterbury, Forest Research) and Lisa Berndt (Forest Research)

The monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus) is a quintessential part of the New Zealand urban summer, as it is in many parts of the world. The monarch was first observed in New Zealand in the 1870s. Monarchs rely on milkweeds (Family: Asclepiadaceae), which are not native to New Zealand, but often cultivated by home gardeners. As such, throughout their range monarchs are one of the most common butterflies seen by the general public.  Monarch butterflies are known to overwinter in New Zealand in large clusters in areas where the average winter temperature drops below 10°C.  Little is known about monarch overwintering behaviour in New Zealand, so the authors were keen to find out more. A small article in the Christchurch provincial newspaper (31st May, 2003, The Press) elicited a huge response. Over 100 reports of monarch clustering behaviour came in via phone and email, and at present over 40 possible overwintering sites have been recorded in Christchurch alone. Public interest was such that five other articles were published in various media including newspapers, local television and web sites.

http://www.usyd.edu.au/macleay/larvae/nymp/plexi.html – pics lifecycleI rang Hamilton CC, Parks Division, and they told me of sightings last year around some pine trees in Lincoln Street.Butterflies can get to Australia if there is a sustained easterly. Apparently it takes them a couple of days to get here on a westerly. But not all butterflies migrate back to Oz – it seems that our temps are moderate enough and at 10deg C they just cluster in trees locally til August-September. I find it interesting that Chch has so many clusters. Also found this article on Scoop from a couple of days ago: http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/SC0507/S00020.htm - Press Release: Monarch Butterfly NZ Trust
http://monarch.org.nz/monarch/ - take a photo or just post comments on this group, seems to be new site  Chch City Council- brochure – overwintering
http://www.ccc.govt.nz/Parks/TheEnvironment/monarch.asp
http://www.forestandbird.org.nz/publications/magazine/1999/february/bluemoon.asp

Butterflies

Websites

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/butterfly/ Label the parts of various insects (one that flies and one that crawls)
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/insects/printouts.shtml http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/butterflies/activities/ http://www.enchantedlearning.com/crafts/butterfly/
http://www.learningpage.com/free_pages/galleries/insects.html
To download this month’s special Creepy Crawlies collection, visit:
http://www.learningpage.com/free_pages/home/spring_fun.html

• This ‘country study’ chart I’ve done is flexible and comprehensive enough to serve as a framework for a make-your-own lapbook on any country or region.

country-study - pdf, one page grid

• Then scour your local public libraries and online at google.
  Try:   lapbook  SUBJECT     OR     free lapbook  SUBJECT.
• We’ve just done India so typed in “lapbook India”    OR   “unit study India”   OR   ”lesson plan India”   – so much out there.
• Search with other words eg. clothes   food   religion  
• Also check out Google images – click open photo and right click save a few to decorate the lapbook.

Enjoy your lapbooking,
Johanna
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Lapbooking101/ - from the beginning
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Lapbooking7up/ - 12yo+ lapbooking

LINK : Nutrition …

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· An understanding of yeast.
· An understanding of leavened and unleavened bread.
· An understanding of the bread-making process.
· An understanding of the variety of breads available internationally.
· An awareness of the additives that are in commercial breads.
· A recipe they have designed and adapted.
· A package/wrapper for this bread.
· An item modelled from bread.
· A number of different types of bread, unleavened, leavened, cultural and festive.

Globally, wheat is the most important human food grain and ranks second in total production as a cereal crop behind maize; the third being rice. Wheat is a staple food that is used to make flour for breads; cookies (biscuits), cakes, pasta, and noodles. Wheat is also used for fermentation to make alcohol.

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Useful websites Index

http://www.bbga.org/breads.html

Yeast sites
http://www.breadworldcanada.com
http://www.botham.co.uk/bread/yeast.htm

History sites
http://www.breadworldcanada.com
http://www.botham.co.uk/bread/

Commercial bread
http://www.botham.co.uk/bread/baker1.htm
http://www.tiptop.com.au/

Recipes
http://breadrecipe.com
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~mjw/recipes/bread/   http://www.webvalue.net/recipes/bread00.htm http://www.ebicom.net/kitchen/page/breadidx.htm  

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“Cast your bread upon the waters.” – Bible

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Craft : Painted Bread Buttons

By Megan Pflug

This craft is almost good enough to eat. 
What you need:

·       cookie cutters
·       white bread
·       yarn
·       craft glue
·       paint brushes
·       acrylic paint

What to do:
1.     Using cookie cutters, punch out shapes from slices of white bread and let them dry out.
2.     Poke a hole at the top and bottom of each shape for lacing the yarn.
3.     With watered-down glue, paint around the outside edge of the cut-outs to reinforce the shape.
4.     Once the shapes have dried, invite your child to paint them with bright designs.
String them together to create a funky bread-based work of art for hanging on walls or windows.   
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“knows what side his bread is buttered on”

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Story : Little Red Hen

Once there was a little red hen who found some wheat. “Who will help me plant this wheat?” she asked.“Not I,” said the cat.“Not I,” said the dog.“Not I,” said the pig.

“Then I will plant it myself,” announced the hen.

 After the wheat grew, the little red hen needed to harvest it and take it to the mill.“Who will help me?” she asked.“Not I, ” said the cat.“Not I,” said the dog.“Not I,” said the pig.

“Then I’ll do it myself,” sputtered the hen.

 When the wheat was ground into flour, the little red hen decided to bake some bread.“Who will help me make the bread?” she asked.“Not I,” said the cat.“Not I,” said the dog.“Not I,” said the pig.

“Then I’ll do it myself,” yelled the hen.

 The bread smelled delicious as it was baking. “Now, who is going to help me eat this bread?” asked the little red hen.“I will,” said the cat.“I will,” said the dog.“I will,” said the pig.

But the little red hen shook her head and said “No, thank you. I’d rather eat it by myself.”

 As a group activity, write your own Little Red Hen book.
Decide who will help with the writing, with the illustrations, with proofreading and assembling the book.
Make sure you add the book to your classroom library.

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“best thing since sliced bread ”

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Should the government ban bread?

Look at these facts ….. it’s horrifying?

— More than 98 percent of convicted felons are bread users.
— More than 90 percent of violent crimes are committed within 24 hours of eating bread.
— Fully HALF of all children who grow up in bread-consuming households score below average on standardized tests.
— Bread is made from a substance called “dough.” It has been proven that as little as one pound of dough can be used to suffocate a mouse. The average American eats more bread than that in one month!
— Bread has been proven to be addictive. Subjects deprived of bread and given only water to eat begged for bread after as little as two days.
— Newborn babies can choke on bread.
— Bread is baked at temperatures as high as 400 degrees Fahrenheit. That kind of heat can kill an adult in less than one minute.
— Most American bread eaters are utterly unable to distinguish between significant scientific fact and meaningless statistical babbling.— Bread has been the catalyst for political upheaval and dietary disaster worldwide, the militant “Whole Grain Cult”, for instance.
— After Jesus broke bread with his disciples the resulting betrayal changed world history forever. (Incorrect fundamentalist thinking blames it on the wine.)
— Money is sometimes called “bread”. Money is the root of all evil. Coincidence?

Frightening statistics! We propose the following:
— No sale of bread to minors.
— A nationwide “Just Say No To Toast” campaign, complete with celebrity TV spots and bumper stickers.
— A 300 percent federal tax on all bread to pay for all the societal ills we might associate with bread.
— No animal or human images, nor any primary colors (which may appeal to children) may be used to promote bread usage.
— The establishment of “Bread-free” zones around schools.
— Eliminate subsidies for farmers engaged in the growing of wheat.
— Health hazard warning labels to be placed on all packages of bread

http://user.pa.net/~nrwing/whataguy/banbread/

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Enjoy!

Johanna
Your Lapbooking 101 Host