October 16, 2012
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Free Ancient Greece Lapbook
So when we left off last year, we had done ‘Story of the World’ chapter 19, which is one of the chapters on the Greeks. Of course that was quite a while ago – we took off for the nearly 2-month feast season, and our memories are just so short…! (Or am I the only one with this problem?) Anyhow, the good news is, we never put anything in our Book of Centuries about the Greeks. So doing an Ancient Greek lapbook serves not only as an era marker in our BOC, but it’s a wonderful review of where we left off, last term!
I like it better when I can share something that’s easy to download – just a green button to one .pdf that gives you all the resources you need in one spot… but that only happens when I have to create the lapbook, myself. Which means WAY more work for me. And to be honest, it’s WAY easier when I can find resources for free elsewhere and just print them from here and there and put them together in one book.
Which is the case, this time. So I apologize for all of the different links, but it’s still pretty nice when the pieces are only a click away, and all compiled so you don’t have to go find them, yourself, no? So having said, here are the materials I used for our Ancient Greek Lapbook (for our Book of Centuries):
Cover Art
http://www.trojanhorseantiques.com/TrojanHorseMythImage.jpgForty-nine page lapbook
http://www.homeschoolshare.com/ancient_greece.phpClothing
http://www.hslaunch.com/mypage/file/3954Greek Alphabet
http://www.hslaunch.com/mypage/file/3949Greek Columns
http://www.hslaunch.com/mypage/file/3955
(I put these inside our Parthenon, btw)Map of Ancient Greece
http://www.greeka.com/greece-maps/ancient-greece-map.jpgAnd of course pictures of our final product!
Front Cover
as always with these, click to enlarge
Inside the Parthenon are column types on one side
and the statue of Athena on the other side.
Back CoverWe used the explaining booklet in the forty-nine page behemoth as our review and help in filling this out, and it was our first ‘Story of the World’ lesson of our new season! I think it turned out marvellously, don’t you?And I think we’re going to prolong the Greek study one more week,
and havea Toga Olympics adventure next Monday!
Comments (5)
Ok this might be a dumb question. I hav always wanted to have a Book of Centuries – and I know you posted how you did yours a long time ago.
But I wondered – does each kids have their own BOC or do you have a master version?
I thought it might be fun if you took a picture of the whole thing- how big is it now?
Each kid has their own Book of Centuries, and mine serves as the ‘master’ version that I reference. But I do put the pictures for Aaron and Owen in a manila folder for when they get to the age that they can participate. Their books are put together, but stored away until they’re older.
There is NO WAY, however, that I can take a picture of the whole thing. It’s not too big (yet), but we have added sections, and a LOT more pictures, and… it’ll get even bigger THIS year. But I kind of wish I had laminated our covers… they’re kinda getting battered. I can always print a new one and laminate/comb bind it on, but I figure until this one falls off, it works.
I didn’t add that the reason the cover is off-set (in the picture) is so that I can punch the back and comb bind it, and the folder still opens inside our Book of Centuries. Theoretically – I get to put it in, this afternoon and see if it works! LoL!!
@Anna - I don’t mean a picture of every page – I mean a picture of it closed, sitting on the table. To get an idea of how thick it is?
I’ll see what I can do. :spin:
Could you cover the cover in clear contact paper to keep it usable for a bit longer? That was the option before home laminating machines.