Discovering Dinosaurs - A Unit Study/Lapbook Tour
Monday, May 2, 2011 at 5:36PM
We love to lapbook!
Recently, my son completed a dinosaur lapbook and I had him give a "video tour" of his work.
{This was a huge motivator for him - what child doesn't like to see themselves on film?}
Following are the resources we used for our study, a study which was fueled by my son's interest in dinosaurs.
Many materials I already had here at home because I had a feeling we would get to this at some point this year. I've posted before about interest-led learning. Most of my son's learning this Kindergarten year has been interest led and I wouldn't have it any other way.
When I knew my son was interested in dinosaurs I scoured our books for dinosaurs.
We also made a trip to the library and just sat in the dinosaur section picking out books together - this was fun! I knew Homeschool Share would have a lapbook about dinosaurs, so printed out all the lapbook elements and we set to work. ** I need to mention that I also picked up adorable flashcards and a dinosaur workbook last summer at Target in their dollar section. Keep your eyes out when you go to Target - they have some great stuff there!
We did a little bit of dinosaur study each day, and the entire unit took us two weeks. I integrated dinosaurs into everything. Each day I gave him a different dinosaur fact for copywork, we made up math word problems about different types of dinosaurs. We had such fun! I hope you find these resources helpful if you embark upon a study of dinosaurs.
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Do you enjoy lapbooking?
What about unit studies to fuel your interest led learners?
Reader Comments (10)
Love this, My youngest has been on me to put together a study for Dinos and I have been picking up things here and there too for about 2-3 months. We are going to do a lapbook(the same as you from hss, i love that place) and also some learning about them to in August!
These resources are wonderful and so are your lapbooks! We used the Homeschool Share lapbook on dinosaurs last year and it was such a hit! Glad your little one enjoyed it too.
Hooray! We have a dinosaur unit in our future this year I think. Joseph chose Robots to start with but dinosaurs was pretty high up on his list too.
What a fun project to do with your kids. My son would love this. I will have to check out Homeschool Share.
THIS is why I love homeschooling! We can jump on our kids' interests and run with them. Dinosaurs are a huge favorite with little boys. :)
I'm glad you linked up today!
We do a version of lapbooks. I enjoy them because they break things down so well.
Visiting from Hip Homeschool Moms. We are going to do dinos in August. Will have to mark your post for reference.
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I agree with Dawn! It's great that homeschooling allows us to teach our kids based on their interests. I will have to check out Homeschool Share to see what I can find.
Holy smokes, those videos just convinced me to do lap books. No matter how people explained them to me in 140 character sound bites, I couldn't figure out why they were such a big deal.
They're an awesome blend of craft meets education. And the opportunity for puns is endless! Thankfully I'm well stocked on construction paper!
This is great! We love lapbooks too and Noodle keeps asking to do a Dinosaur one.
Great job!
This could be a fun article to use as a compliment to a Dinosaur Unit. It investigates whether or not Jurassic Park could happen in real life!
http://everydayeinstein.quickanddirtytips.com/could-jurassic-park-really-happen.aspx