Month: July 2014

Here is the third and last lapbook on Origins. This one is by Ace.

If you’d like to see the sources that we used for these mini-books please see my previous post. All of the writing in this lapbook was dictated to me by Ace, but he did all the fancy designing and coloring in his lapbook. He also completely designed his Creation Days Wheel.

The cover:

 

The spread:

Vocabulary:

The Flood:

The Fall:

Why history is important:

Tower of Babel

Science Hoaxes:

Mt. St. Helens for a Young Earth:

Why Creation:

Ice Age:

Dinosaurs:

Evidence of a Young Earth:

Creation Days Circle:

If you’d like to see the other posts on this topic, here are the links:
How it All Began Unit
Zippy’s “Origins” Lapbook
JD’s “Origins” Lapbook

Here is the second lapbook on Origins. This one is by JD Boy.

If you’d like to see the sources that we used for these mini-books please see my previous post. JD Boy designed his own cover. JD wrote in some of his books and he dictated for me to write in some, but all were his answers. They are fun to read. I also think JD did some mighty fine coloring on a couple of these mini books.

The cover:

 

The spread:

 

The mini books:

Vocabulary:

Science Hoaxes:

Dinosaurs:

Days of Creation:

Why Creation?

Mt. St. Helens Evidences of a Young Earth:

Tower of Babel:

The Flood:

Evidences of a Young Earth:

Why History is Important:

Ice Age:

The Fall:

If you’d like to see the other posts on this topic, here are the links:

Origins Unit Study
Zippy’s “Origin” Lapbook
Ace’s “Origin” Lapbook

I decided that I’m going to share one lapbook a day from our origins study. We will start with my oldest’s lap book.

As you can see, washi tape was popular for this project. You will see it on all three lapbooks. The kids said they won’t use it again because it curls so bad, but it’s pretty this time.

I did have sources on hand for most of these mini books in this lapbook. Our sources were: Old Testament Activity Pak by Homeschool in the Woods, Creation Science Lapbook by In the Hands of a Child, and Binder-Builder by A Journey Through Learning for Truth Quest History Beginnings Guide. I had all of these before we did this study, so we picked and chose from all three. Zippy designed her own cover and also her own Creation Days Wheel.

(I see a few grammatical and spelling errors in these pictures that we missed. Guess we’ll have to go fix those.)

The Cover:

The Spread:

The mini-book close-ups:

Vocabulary:

Why Creation?

Mt. St. Helens Evidences for a Young Earth

Science Hoaxes Used to Prove Evolution

Evidences of a Young Earth

Creation Days Wheel (Design and Art by Zippy)

Tower of Babel/Distribution of People Groups

Dinosaurs

The Flood

Why History is Important

Ice Age

The Fall

If you’d like to see the other posts on this topic, here are the links:

Origins Unit Study
JD’s “Origin” Lapbook
Ace’s “Origin” Lapbook

We recently finished a unit on how life began. We had been studying ancient history for awhile, but had skipped over the prehistory sections, but I decided that for my older two children, in particular, it was time to address the theory of evolution. So we backed up and discussed some of the early chapters in our ancient history books. To be fair, I am a staunch Young Earth Creationist, so that did influence the course of our study. I suppose it was actually the study of evolution from the creationist viewpoint. I want my children to realize that evidence for the stories of Creation and The Flood are not only found in the Bible but in other ancient documents and that there is evidence for them in some scientific studies.

Here is a list of the sources that we used:

The Usborne Encyclopedia of the Ancient World: Internet Linked (History Encyclopedias) (This is a secular history book.)

Streams of Civilization: Earliest Times to the Discovery of the New World (Vol 1) (79555) (The first chapter deals with different ideas of origin.)

Beginnings (Creation/Old Testament/Ancients/Egypt) (I love all of the other Truth Quest History Books that I’ve used, but this one is not my favorite. But I’m still using the parts that I like out of it, since I have it.)

The Great Dinosaur Mystery Video (Watch online for free.)

Creation vs Evolution by Terry McComb (DVD)

After we studied about origins from these sources, my three oldest children worked on lap books to show what they had learned. They all did a beautiful job on each lap book, but I plan to share those over the next few days.

Here are the links for:
Zippy’s “Origins” Lapbook
JD’s “Origins” Lapbook
Ace’s “Origins” Lapbook