Getting to grips with Atoms and Elements - a free lapbook folder

If you are looking for a simple introduction to what science teaches about Atoms and Elements, you might like this folder printable, which can be made into a lapbook or put into your interactive notebooks.

Before I continue, I just want to interject with a sort of disclaimer here .... much of science is based on theory, not always proven facts.
And so when teaching our children different branches of scientific knowledge for their academic school studies, it's important to explain this to them, especially when scientific thought contradicts or opposes the Qur'an and Sunnah.

Germs lapbook

Simple lapbook all about Germs!
 A basic introduction to what germs are, how they spread and find their way into our body, as well as what defences our body has against them! Finishes off with the dua'as to say if visiting some one who is ill and the benefits of sickness as a means to expiate ones sins!

It is available for free download inshallah HERE!!!!

Finished lapbook below, not in order of competition!

Inside folder

Can we see germs?

What are Germs?

Brief description various bugs, including bacteria, virus, fungi and protozoa.

Germs can make me ill.

How Germs spread.

How we can stop germs spreading.

Method to wash hands wheel.

How does my body fight germs

Including explanation of immune systom, skin, stomach and white blood cells.

What to say when visiting someone who is ill.

2 cards inserted in pocket with dua'a to say when visiting someone who is ill.

Illness removes sins.

Hadeeth regarding the expiation of sins due to illness.

Poster to finish off project, stuck to the back of the folder.

Endangered Animals project

A while ago K developed an interest in endangered animals and extinction. We started this a couple of months ago but haven't actually done alot to it!

Yesterday we completed another animal so thought would post what she's done so far.

I put together the book using cardboard and covered with black construction paper, putting together with string - thus making a nice A3-ish size board book.

On the opening page we have a global map which K marks each country that each animal she looks at comes from.

K chose to find out about Pandas first, which we learnt are from China and there are only approximately 1000 left in the world!

K made a small booklet with a factual story about a Panda which included alot of information about Pandas.

The next animal K chose was Polar Bears. I've had all the prep done for this for weeks and weeks and weeks....but as with alot of things round here its been left in the cupboard waiting!
We learnt that Polar Bears are under threat because of the melting Ice....and I didn't realise that Polar Bears are found in 5 countries, Greenland, Russia, Alaska, Northern Canada and Norway......and did you know that Polar Bears skin is actually black!!!! SubhanAllah!

And in the interest of equality (Z doesn't get alot of blog attention yet! awww) here is Z's polar bear (made with cotton wool)

I got the animal material from Homeschool share.

Here is the Panda

Here is the Polar Bear

I think the Panda collage I googled a template I can not remember the site. The same for the Polar Bear collage, I just googled polar bear template I think, I didn't record the site.

All about me lapbook

K completed her "all about me" lapbook today alhamdulillah - she started it last Friday and had a couple of bits to finish off today....she wanted to get it finished asap because she knows I have prepared 2 more lapbooks she is interested in, one about the body, and another about dolphins!

I printed selected pages from the all about me lapbook on Home School share.

K decorated the "mirror" and then I helped her to cut out and stick the foil....she was disappointed it did work as a real mirror though! ....then lift up the mirror to draw a faceless picture of herself.

To list her favorate things, K wrote what they were, and then we went onto google images, to save, and insert into word, reduce image size and then print (all done by K mashAllah)...so got some basic IT skills in there too!

I tried to get K to cut a small piece of hair to stick in....but she was horrified at the thought...so she just drew a few strands of hair instead!

When K filled in the "my names and Alias" section both she and Z were horrified to discover they have their father's name as their middle name because its a "boys name"....they only calmed down and accepted it once I explained I also have my father's middle name Mahmood!