Antarctica Lapbook

For Georgia's final project on Antarctica, she created a lapbook. For those unfamiliar with the term, it is a little book packed with information which is usually made from a file folder. We used a letter size manilla folder. We opened it up and folded it in thirds.

Here's the front...

The inside has different folded pockets and doors of information. On the left is a flip-up style penguin book. It has pictures and information on seven different species of penguins with their species name on the overhanging tab. There is an orange door flap that has a map of Antarctica and a picture of the volcano, Mt. Erebus. The yellow box opens to show pictures and information on four different species of birds. She chose the skua, cormorant, albatross, and petrel. The light blue doors in the center open up to give information on Antarctica's summer and winter. The dark blue accordian fold book shows the food chain of a leopard seal. The red flip up book tells about Antarctica's extremes. (temp, elevation, ice, precipitation, etc) And the bottom has a pull tab to show some pictures of common things found under the ice in the ocean.

Here's a picture of the inside...


Here's a picture of the inside with some books opened up...


For the back cover, Georgia made up a game called "Help get the penguins to the ocean!" The penguin pawns start at the rookery and have to make their way to the ocean to get food. Along the way they have three bonuses and three penalties to look out for. The bonuses let you move extra spaces, the penalties make you move back or lose a turn. The number of spaces to move is determined by rolling a die.

Here's the back of the folder, with the penguin pawns and die.