What are lapbooks?
A lapbook is a file folder that is refolded a certain way. Inside, learners glue in notes or foldables on a particular topic.
What are benefits of lapbooks?
• Motivation for reluctant learners
• Easily stored projects
• Creative outlet
• High subject matter retention
• Review tool for students
• Alternate assessment tool for teachers
What does this Underground Railroad lapbook include?
As a great activity to be incorporated into your Black History Month studies or US History 1800s unit, this lapbook includes directions, examples and several printables such as:
* Freedom quilts (examples plus quilting folklore)
* Biographies of key people (Harriet Tubman, William Still, John Parker, Frederick Douglass)
* Mini foldable vocab folders
* Map coloring activity
* Who am I - expandable
* Freedom Acrostic Poem
1/14 update: I added in a worksheet on codes used on the Underground Railroad.
For another great February resource take a look at my Non-Fiction Text Detectives (February Edition).
Enjoy!
Visit my shop, TeachingintheSunshine, at Teacher's Notebook.
Or view this product, Underground Railroad Lapbook w/ foldables.