The Hermit Crabs Homeschool: The Appalachian Mountains Lap Book

A unit comprising activities, lap book and informational text. Filled with maps of Pangea and North America for students to

visually learn about the Appalachian Mountains.

We are learning flora and fauna as well through the eyes of the Native American
Indians that lived in the area.

Our project started with a one file folder and one card stock insert.

We have space for a lot of information.

Lap Books are meant to be review stations, where your students will keep visual

photo cards and even write about what they have learned inside.

This is an example of them personalizing the project and making it their own.

I like using visuals for everything in our classroom.............

For instance, I remember when we first started talking about Pangea.

I could tell my son was understanding the info but it was not

So a few days later, I proved my theory to be true when I asked

Sooooo...... What did we learn yesterday?

I decided I was going to make big visual boards for our classroom.

Obviously it was time consuming and rather expensive.

Lap Books and Interactive Notebooks became so much affordable and

for once I could do them myself on my computer.

This is why lap books are our main learning source, way and so important in our curriculum.

Coloring and making sense of where the Appalachian Mountains are.

We colored this map of North America and shaded the area of the

Appalachian Mountains and even the Rocky Mountains.