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Civil War Lapbook plus Notebooking Pages

October 16, 2009 By Jimmie Quick 8 Comments

We’ve finally wrapped up the Civil War! It took us over two months to cover what Winter Promise had assigned for a mere six weeks. (Too many interruptions lately — mostly traveling and sickness. Ah, well, this is why we homeschool.)

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Civil War Lapbook

We used these resources inside the lapbook:

  • RETAIL (bought at Currclick)–Hands-On History: Civil War
  • RETAIL (bought at Currclick)–Scribe System – History Scribe Combo which includes a section on The Civil War
  • FREE–Homeschool Share Presidents Lapbook — Lincoln layered book
  • FREE–sample from HTTA Civil War Time Traveler
  • RETAIL (part of Winter Promise curriculum)–Interactive 3-D Maps: American History (Scholastic)

Here’s a great link which we didn’t use simply because we had enough things already — Tina’s Dynamic Homeschool Plus War Between the States Lapbook.

The whole set of Civil War lapbook pics are here at Flickr.

civil war lapbook inside

The large, light yellow shutterfold started out as a notebooking page. But we kept adding information until it grew two flaps. And then we decided to treat is as a large minibook and as a flap on the lapbook. The back of this book holds two more minibooks.

civil war lapbook open

civil war lapbook names of the war minibook

Our Favorite Civil War Living Books:

  • Ghosts of the Civil War by Cheryl Harness.  Sprite loved the graphical format of this picture book.
  • The Civil War for Kids by Janis Herbert. This was Sprite’s first history book to be read alone. A milestone!
  • Behind Rebel Lines: The Incredible Story of Emma Edmonds, Civil War Spy by Seymore Reit. This one starts out dull, but keep reading! It’s quite suspenseful. Of course, a female soldier and spy really intrigued Sprite.
  • Bull Run by Paul Fleischman (a Scott O’Dell Award book) which we downloaded as an audio book from Audible.com at Sandwich’s recommendation. Great call, Sandwich! This was fantastic! And I know I’ll be buying more books from Audible in the future.

Notebooking:

For the notebooking pages, we put them into sheet protectors and affixed them to the lapbook with paper brads. You can see the brads on the cover.

brads on outside showing brads outlined
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And that wraps it up! Next we’ll be on the wagon train, delving into Westward Expansion.

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Filed Under: history, lapbooking, notebooking Tagged With: American history, civil war, lapbook, notebooking

Comments

  1. Jennifer says

    October 16, 2009 at 8:05 pm

    Don’t know if you’ve done this before but we’ve done it twice and we had so much fun with it. It’s a virtual Oregon Trail group project. http://www.cyberbee.com/wwho We didn’t join in on any of the group things but just did our own things using their Travel & Fate cards and made travel journals and covered wagons, hardtack, etc. We had a blast! If you do your own thing then there is no need to wait for the group “travel” in February. Here’s our page on what we did. http://www.toadhaven.com/oregon%20trail%202007.html Just thought I’d share becasue it was so much fun and all the travel and fate situations are based on real journal entries from those on teh Oregon Trail so are historically accurate. Cool!

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  2. Sarah at SmallWorld says

    October 16, 2009 at 8:37 pm

    Fanatastic! It took us nearly all of spring semester to finish the Civil War, so don’t feel bad!!
    .-= Sarah at SmallWorld´s last blog ..Three Beautiful Things: Friend, Candlelight, Sprouts =-.

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  3. Sarah at SmallWorld says

    October 16, 2009 at 8:37 pm

    (Sorry, that would be fantastic, not fanatastic! But perhaps that’s more expressive?!)
    .-= Sarah at SmallWorld´s last blog ..Three Beautiful Things: Friend, Candlelight, Sprouts =-.

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  4. Sandwich in Wi says

    October 17, 2009 at 4:03 am

    So glad you enjoyed Bull Run. We are just getting ready to do it again and I can’t wait. I’m anxious to take a few minutes (when I have some!) and slowly peruse your lapbook. We are just using the History Pockets Civil War as it easily gets overwhelming for us otherwise. There are too many good things to add in.

    Daisy just finished Behind Rebel Lines and loved it as well. I kept hearing her chuckling from the couch as the girl got to keep all the things she used in her spying (the gun and the horse).

    Blessings,
    Sandwich
    .-= Sandwich in Wi´s last blog ..CC Meet 6 =-.

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  5. Heather says

    October 17, 2009 at 7:59 am

    We’ve been “rowing” Follow the Drinking Gourd and George Washington Carver and we are going to follow a rabbit trail to discover the Underground Railroad and the Civil War. We are going to use Homeschool in the Woods Time Travelers unit on the Civil War.

    Your lapbook looks great!

    Heather

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  6. Lynn says

    October 19, 2009 at 9:16 am

    So cool! I LOVE the way that turned out. We just had a co-op meet here for the study of Cowboy Charlie, the story of Charles M. Russell who goes west, becomes a cowboy and friends to the Indians and then paints what he saw. It’s a good go-along for westward expansion if you can find a copy. I think it’s OOP. I hope to post pictures of it soon.

    Hugs,
    Lynn
    .-= Lynn´s last blog ..Annie Bananie =-.

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  7. Jennifer says

    October 21, 2009 at 10:55 pm

    what a great looking lapbook!
    .-= Jennifer´s last blog ..Pumpkin Patch 2009: Wordless Wednesday =-.

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  8. Mary says

    January 7, 2015 at 9:16 am

    Love all of this! We’re wrapping up the Civil War here and I’m trolling your blog for ideas. Thanks (again!) Jimmie!

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