March Lapbook Contest: Earth Day Lapbook

[Valerie]

Update: We have a Winner!

Daphne, who provided us this great link to Planet Pals As a winner she'll receive a $15 Gift Card to www.CurrClick.com.

Thanks to everyone for participating, I've been working on gathering all the resources you've shared with an easy page for your to start working on your Earth Day Lapbooks

http://lapbooklessons.ning.com/notes/Links_Earth_Day_Lapbook

And if you have more to add, just keep the comments coming below (the contest is over, but we can still add in some more resources to help everyone out!)

And if you didn't win, don't worry....check out our current contests in our Member Forum!

Here is a direct link to our April 2009 Contest so be sure and check that one out first!




Original Post Follows:

Well ladies and gents it's time for our March Lapbook Contest! It seems that our monthly contests are a bit hit, so we're going to keep them going for a while......(at least until June....I'm due in July, so I'm sure I'll be taking a bit of a hiatus to welcome our new family member)

Anyway, for our March Contest I thought we'd make it a little bit like our monthly group themes. Earth Day is April 22nd, and I thought it would be fun to generate a list of resources and links we can all share and use for making an Earth Day lapbook.

And for participating you'll be entered into a random drawing for a $15 giftcard to www.CurrClick.com where you can pick up more lapbooking and homeschooling supplies!

So, ready to join the fun? For this month's contest all you have to do is..............

1. Add a link below for helpful resources for making an Earth Day Lapbook. (If you can help it try to share one that hasn't already been shared) And if you can let us know what exactly to expect when we click on that link (i.e. Craft, worksheet, or tell us the age level ect....)


BONUS ENTRY: If you upload a file (or files) you've created for making an Earth Day Lapbook you'll get one additional entry. Please note that these files must be your own work and you must hold the copyright to them and images must be copyright free. (Homeschool Share has an amazing list of copyright free links and re...)

I'll leave this post open for entries till the end of March, and then I'll announce the random winner of the giftcard then!

[Nanette]

www. sparklebox.co.uk is a UK web site with some great things -
www.sparklebox.co.uk/topic/life/recycle.html
and choose:

Sorting for recycling set (Ref: SB1297)
A great set of sorting cards featuring various items of rubbish, some of which can be recycled. Children sort the cards onto their corresponding recycling containers, or the skip.

Could be used as a sorting game.

Nanette

[Danica Bailey]

There are so many ideas on this page for Earth Day lessons.

(It's not showing the link when I see my reply, but when I click to edit I can see it. : \ http://www.theteachersguide.com/earthdaylessonplans.htm )

[Donna Sweet]

Hey everyone!
When I saw this contest I thought, hey!, now this I can do...look for good links! :0)
This first one is from abcTeach...there's some great printable for Earth Day
http://abcteach.com/directory/seasonalholidays/earth_day/

Here's some really nice early readers from Enchanted Learning that could be used in a lapbook.
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/books/holiday/earthday/

This next one is a coloring/activity book in PDF....it could be placed at the back of lapbook
http://www.epa.gov/region5/publications/happy/happy.pdf

A very cute song about Earth Day
http://www.lessonplanspage.com/SSScienceMusicEarthDaySongIdeaK4.htm

A PDF earth coloring/fact page
http://freestuff4kids.net/colorearth.pdf

Here's a site that would have some useful items for a lapbook
http://www.primarygames.com/holidays/earth_day/earthday.htm

Well, guess I'll stop here! :-) I love to do searches.
In Christ, Donna

[Christine]

Starfall.com has an earth day page. It's a read-along story, with recycleable sorting activity (online).

http://www.starfall.com/n/holiday/earthday/play.htm?f

My son, 5 yrs old, loved it.

Many Blessings,
Christine

[Dana]

Earthday photo contest
http://www.timeforkids.com/TFK/kids/news/story/0,28277,1717273,00.html

An earth theme with tons of resources.
http://www.fastq.com/~jbpratt/education/theme/earth.html

What is Earth day?
http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngexplorer/pioneer/0804/article...
On line game
http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngexplorer/pioneer/0804/games/g...

[Daphne]

Hi all,
I found a great site that has a lot of info for copywriting, starting with the history of earth day. If you go down the page to the Earthday Pages link you can find a lot of other pages including free clip art to include. On that page you can find some printables in the Free Fun for Kids section.

http://www.planetpals.com/earthday2.html

Daphne

[Angela]

Earth Day Pendant:

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/crafts/earthday/glue/

[April]

Here are some I found!

http://www.earthday.gov/kids.htm

http://holidays.kaboose.com/earth-day/index.html

[Dana]

Sorry found another good one
Preschool kids earth day
http://www.first-school.ws/theme/h_earth-day.htm

[M. K.]

Here are some fun songs to sing throughout the week/year about caring for the Earth:
http://www.preschooleducation.com/searth.shtml

Awesome way to recycle newspaper. Make a kite- would be great for older children to do on their own, and for younger ones with help. A great extension lesson
http://www.makingfriends.com/grandfatherskite.htm

Printable of the water cycle used to emphasize the clean source of power that can be found thru water driven power plants. There are also a couple other lessons on this site about alternative energy sources
http://www.funlessonplans.com/science_lesson_plans/water_power.htm

Printable Coloring/activity book with ideas for helping the Earth
http://www.epa.gov/region5/publications/happy/happy.htm

[Patty Thompson]

I found this: The Earth Day Network. This would give you the opportunity to coordinate any activities with local organizations. A great way to learn is of course--Hands on!

http://www.earthday.net/

T8ermomma

[Wilda]

I forgot to add: when you go to www.schoolexpress.com look up recycling for starters. ;)