Foldables

Like I said in my previous post, for each new ecosystem we learn about we will add a new foldable into our Lapbook. The first ecosystem(s) we learned about were the four types of forests.

This foldable was pretty easy. You take an 8.5x11 piece of regular paper and fold it nearly in half "hot dog style". You want to leave about a 1in margin on the end so that you'll have room to write "forests". Next, fold it in half "hamburger style" and half again the same way. When you unfold it, you should have four equal sized rectangle-like shapes. Have your students cut along the fold lines (*only on the top side of the page, the purpose is to create flaps, not four seperate rectangles). If it is cut right, there should be four seperate flaps which will represent the four different types of forests. I had students write the type of forest on the bottom lip of the flap and draw what the forest looks like on the outside. Then when you open the flap is the notes that we took on that forest.