February is quickly approaching...can I get an AMEN????.....and with February comes Black History Month. I had a fun time teaching about Black History Month last year because we incorporated it into literacy and social studies. Our students learned a lot about historical figures in the African American culture, and had fun doing so. We learned about Madam C.J. Walker, we read Uncle Jed's Barber Shop, and then we made the produc that I am featuring on tonights blog......
**DRUM ROLL PLEASE**
Black History Month Lapbook!!!
If you have never had the opportunity to create a Lapbook before, I highly recommend looking into them! A Lapbook is basically a place where students get to store flipbooks, vocabulary cards, and other diagrams or charts that are all based around a particular unit. It is kind of like a portfolio of student work for that unit!! When I student taught, I sat through a Lapbook professional development and learned all about how to assemble a Lapbook, what to include in it, and how to make it fun for the kids! We have made Lapbooks on the human body, the life cycle of a butterfly, geometry, and Black History Month!
In this particular Lapbook, students learned information on Rosa Parks, Michael Jordan, Louis Armstrong, and 4 African American inventors. When it is all said and done, students get to take home their own little portfolio on all of these historical people.
I decided to type up a packet on this particular Lapbook for February and post it on TpT. Included in the document you will find all the templates needed for certain flipbooks, a list of all the materials you would need to make the flipbooks, possible links or sites to help with finding information (my Michael Jordan Smartboard lesson being one of those), and pictures of a completed Lapbook from my class.
Again, I would highly recommend looking into making a Lapbook for any subject. They end up being an awesome artifact of student work, and it is something they may be interested in keeping themselves instead of chunking it into the garbage....which I'm sure NONE of my kids have EVER done..............................................
To go look at this product, click on the link below! Please feel free to leave feedback, suggestions, comments (both good and bad....preferably good!!).
Did you make it over this hump day?? Only two more days to go until that fabulous weekend hits us!! Anyone else praying for a little (or a lot) of snow???? I AM!!! :)
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