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The election process can be quite the intriquit process, many well educated adults don't even fully grasp it, myself included. Home School In The Woods has created an all inclusive lap-pak that really puts everything together in a fun hands on visually pleasing way. With it being an election year we couldn't have asked for a better resource than the US Elections Lap-Pak.
What's a lapbook?
Think of a project board, but made to fit in your lap. It has one topic and each section of the lap-pak has information and details about that topic.
Benefits of lapbooks:
I like this blog post from Home School In The Woods on the benifits of teaching with Lapbooks. Lapbooks can be made with any main topic, all you really need to put it together is a file folder, cardstock, tape and some writing utilsils. Getting your creative juices flowing might take some work but Home School In The Woods has created many different lap-paks that have everything you need to make your lapbooks in easy to print PDF paks. Topics include:
Think of a project board, but made to fit in your lap. It has one topic and each section of the lap-pak has information and details about that topic.
Benefits of lapbooks:
- Visual with pictures and pop ups
- Tactile learning
- Can be used over time gradually building on to a topic
I like this blog post from Home School In The Woods on the benifits of teaching with Lapbooks. Lapbooks can be made with any main topic, all you really need to put it together is a file folder, cardstock, tape and some writing utilsils. Getting your creative juices flowing might take some work but Home School In The Woods has created many different lap-paks that have everything you need to make your lapbooks in easy to print PDF paks. Topics include:
- US Elections
- Benjamin Franklin
- Knights
- Wonders of the World
- 20th Century America
- Mount St. Helens Erupts
We have been working our way through the US Elections Lap-Pak, the boys have learned about:
The pak comes with a HTML website that you follow along as you go, telling you the order for each project, has a lesson to read aloud or an audible option for the lesson, and a link to the PDF's.
- Definition of elections
- Forms of Gorvernment
- Branches of Government
- Sufferage
- Terms of Office
- Caucuses & Primaries
The pak comes with a HTML website that you follow along as you go, telling you the order for each project, has a lesson to read aloud or an audible option for the lesson, and a link to the PDF's.
This project has been fun to go through over the past few weeks, we even let the kids be apart of doing the mail-in ballots for the primaries and they got our "We Voted By Mail" stickers. We will continue to build on to this lap-pak throughout the year as the election process unfolds. I love that I'm learning new things right along with them!!
We have enjoyed this Home School In The Woods Lap-pack, but don't just take our word for it other families from the Homeschool Review Crew reviewed this lap-pak and others as well so be sure to check out their reviews by clicking on the banner.
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