Scrapbooks are one tool for learning about science.
Science scrapbooks are like science journals. These books are used to present what you have learned about a particular topic within the study of science. They are projects that show the process of what you have learned, or how you came to a conclusion regarding a specific query.
A science scrapbook may be put together in a photo scrapbook, or by using a sketchpad. Things may be drawn and written within, and glued or taped. It may be decorated however you like, or not at all.
Instructions
1. Choose the materials that you will use to create the scrapbook. Start with the album. Decide if a photograph album will be used, or if a scrapbook of blank white pages will suffice. Use stickers that have something to do with the theme of the book you are creating.
2. Brainstorm ideas for your project. Think about the assignment or experiment that has been assigned, and decide what you will need to incorporate into the scrapbook. Using a plant theme, you may choose to add microscope slides of specimens and actual samples. Place a few flat rocks into a scrapbook using glue for rock studies.
3. Use journaling cards to explain the items that you are placing into the scrapbook. Explain the process of acquiring samples, draw out what the slide samples look like through the microscope and label everything. Add lab reports and important science notes to the book as well.
Write down questions that you have to start with, and that come to you throughout the course of study. Leave room for answers, and research to find out everything you can about what you feel is important. Be sure to date everything.
4. Decorate the pages according to what each is about. Use stickers of the planets, sun and moon for space studies, doodling stars along the edges of the pages. Consider black journaling cards and silver gel pens for journaling on this topic. Use cloud stickers and doodle raindrops for a weather scrapbook, or use embellishments consisting of general science equipment for a lab experiment.
Use premade scrapbooking borders for simple page embellishments, and puffy stickers to add depth to some of the pages. Decorate the cover of your scrapbook with markers, indicating the topic title, your name and the project due date.
