Jackson's Ancient Greece Lapbook

I am “re-posting” the Ancient Greece lapbooks in the following 2 posts.  I am thinking that the original post may have had too many pictures in it.  We shall see if this helps. 

The boys finished up their Ancient Greece lapbooks today.  They are pretty proud of them. Things we learned.... our new method of working on them bit by bit over the course of a week may not actually be the best way to go.  We had soooooo much stuff today that is was a real struggle to figure out how to put it all in. 

When we used to just take a full day at the end of a unit and have a “marathon lapbooking day” we were able to keep track of what we had, what they wanted to include and when to STOP!   :)  So we will probably go back to that, even though those marathon days were a bit much for me.  :) 

Each boy arranged his lapbook - and I was intrigued by the decisions that they made that were the same and the also the ways they did things differently.  Jonathan made his decisions based on content.... “the Greek Gods and Goddesses folder should go next to the Parthenon with Athena inside - since Athena was a Greek God”.  However, Jackson wanted things placed according to style, color, and space/shape.  Definitely a concrete/literal thinker versus a creative/spacial thinker.  They are both so much fun to observe and they certainly stay “true to themselves”.

Below are a LOT of pictures of their lapbooks - so beware if this doesn’t interest you.  :)

First up is Jackson’s - the red lapbook....  

This is the left side - we actually used 2 full file folders along with 2 full page extensions!  The theater masks are on a “brad” to move, the mosaic is inside the square sealed envelope, there are 2 of 4 “matchbook” vocabulary showing here, and the Olympic book lifts on the front, then opens for more pages.  Also shown is a set of individual cards of Greek Gods and Goddesses - inside a library card envelope.

closeup of the mosaic completely unfolded

Below is the underneath of the blue extension - showing the other 2 “matchbook” vocabulary cards and a booklet on Ancient Greece.   Below is the right side of the lapbook - with a tri- fold of the Parthenon (Athena and info is inside), a lift the flap of ancient coins, and 2 lift the flap/fold outs on military power and Athens & Sparta. This shows a bit of the lift the flaps/fold outs on the right side of the lapbook.... on military equipment and a Venn Diagram on Athens & Sparta.  The other picture shows the underneath of the green extension showing a pop up book of the Parthenon and another booklet on Ancient Greece.  Plus, a tri-lift the flap on Triremes (fast ships used in war).