My eight-year-old son wants to make a pond scum lapbook, and I am having a hard time finding anything that covers that specific area. I've found stuff for cells in general, but nothing that fits the pond scum criteria. I know I *could* make one, but it is so nice to have something to just print and cut. Anyone have any links to something like that? I found this site with nice pictures, but it isn't in Lapbook or specifically "educational" format: http://www.silkentent.com/gus1911/RonPond.htm He does link to an educational site, but they still don't have anything really good to print other than some pictures.
What about free lapbook components from like homeschoolshare and put some pics from those sites on them.
Thanks, but Homeschoolshare doesn't have anything for pond scum. Right now I have a feeling that what I am looking for does not exists online. lol I've been searching off-and-on all day, and keep finding boring written material for middle/high school classes or overly simplified pond stuff about frogs and tadpoles, etc... This wasn't what I was looking for, but interesting anyway..... http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/ponddip/index.html On the positive side, he has spent the better part of two hours looking at scum and water from our fish tank under the microscope. We've found all sorts of fun "squishies" to try to identify.
I meant their blank books. You make them whatever you want..... print them out, print out your pictures and cut them and glue them.
Oh, okay, thanks! That still counts as making my own, though! The problems I'm having are mostly because I never had microbiology in school, and the information I'm finding is not in the right format for what I need. "It's all Greek to me," comes to mind when we start talking about microbes, and I don't want to put a unit together with wrong information, kwim? So, I'm doing a lot of reading and printing. So far I think I've gone waaaaay beyond the interest level of my 8 year old. LOL I think I have enough information for 3 lapbooks if I can figure out how to sort it out and put it back together simply, sensibly, and without making some biologist cry. I managed to make this really awesome layer pond with flaps for the different protists in the different levels of the pond.
I have a 10th grader doing biology this year...and to make a long story short...I looked for a pond scum lapbook also. The closest thing I found is a lapbook from Hands of a Child and it is Single-Celled organisms. It is not especially about pond scum but does have some of the things you will find in pond scum. They also have a lapbook for younger kids about Pond Life which might be more what you are looking for. I used this website for a pond scum activity...http://sciencenetlinks.com/lessons/pond-2-life-in-a-drop-of-pond-water/ . I had him make a slide from pond scum and draw a couple of things he saw. I also used this site...to help identify what he saw...http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/ponddip/index.html He was fascinated at what he saw moving around in that sample of pond scum. This is a good page for younger kids about pond scum could work for a unit study http://www.earthskids.com/ek_science-pond-wetland.htm and on this page there is a link for worksheets for younger kids too http://prek-8.com/1stgrade/lessonplan_pondanimals.php activity pages make good lapbook elements too, just print them smaller and glue them to a lapbook foldable. In case you have a pond nearby to investigate here is a printable field notebook for kids...http://www.ducks.ca/assets/2012/06/Field-NB-English-2013-converted.pdf this website about ducks also have some cool paper foldable activities of pond animals...not pond scum but kids do like stuff like this. For some subject matters there just isn't a ready made resource and you have to wing it.
Thanks for the links! I might get that lapbook from Hands of a Child too. Their stuff is usually decent. Currently our "lapbook" project has become obsessively huge, and has spawned multiple other projects, including bacteria, cells, pond insects, and even some pond scum comic strips (Bob the Blob and The Squishies). I tried to focus our pond scum unit to mostly Kingdom Protista, witch covers most of the scummy squish you'd find in ponds. Even limiting it to that is challenging, sort of like trying to do a generic animal lapbook. Seriously, where do you stop? It is always dangerous when I do my own units, because my brakes stop working. lol It is really disappointing how few good, written resources there are for middle aged children. We are going to the library on Friday, but most of what I've found online for books look dry, and are for high school ages and up. This is a fun topic, there should be more interesting and well ORGANIZED material out there!
We use Abeka and I use the scope and sequence as a basic guide. This is from the 3rd grade lessons plans. Unit 6 is about pond life....and it is broken down into these categories...Pond Community, pond plants, pond fish, pond birds, pond amphibians, pond reptiles, pond invertebrates. Well, in third grade the book doesn't really go into pond scum, so I would add that myself. The pond life lapbook from hands of a child, does have pond dipping and that is where I would add my own foldables etc if it doesn't include the information I wanted. What any kid is going to find the most interesting is looking at the pond scum samples you collect yourself under a microscope. My 10th grader spent a couple of hours glued to the microscope and was totally fascinated with what he saw moving!
