Tag: lapbooks

Studying marine animals? Whales? If so, your students will love the student-centered, hands-on, cross-curricular project where they’ll learn all about whales while creating a lapbook or an interactive notebook.

This can be used as a stand-alone unit that includes all of the informational materials, maps, illustrations and templates needed to create a beautiful project. However, a booklist is given if further research and reading is desired.

Includes:
– Instructions and lapbook/notebooking visuals
– Supply list
– Required elements checklist (optional for teacher assigned elements)
– Grading rubric and grading sheet
– Informational text covering: General and fun information about whales in general and more specific information on 8 species (orca, sperm whale, blue whale, beluga whale, humpback whale, gray whale, bowhead whale and narwhal), taxonomy, description of the 2 types of whales (baleen and toothed), migration, diet, communication, life cycle, predators, swimming displays, vocabulary
– Book suggestions for additional reading
– Illustration of anatomy: Baleen and toothed (labeled)
– Maps (Where in the World) for the orca, sperm whale, blue whale, beluga whale, humpback whale, gray whale, bowhead whale and narwhal
– 16 pages of templates that can be used to either create a lapbook or use in an interactive notebook