Showing posts with label Notebooking. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Notebooking. Show all posts

Tuesday, December 11, 2012

Five Types of Pronouns Notebooking Page

Today I whipped up a notebooking page for my daughters to use in our grammar studies. This page highlights the five types of pronouns, which we've been studying via Daily Grammar: personal, relative, demonstrative, indefinite, and interrogative. I went with a basic format for this one. My idea is that the girls will definite each pronoun within its box and then list examples.

It's available for free on Scribd!

Pronouns

Thursday, December 6, 2012

Sir Isaac Newton Notebooking Page

Here's another notebooking page I created for our Secrets of the Universe: Objects in Motion (AO Year 6) study. Sir Isaac Newton features largely in this selection -- and quite rightly, too. I decided to keep this page more general in design for universal appeal. (No pun intended. I mean it.)

Sir Isaac Newton Notebooking Page


Speaking of Isaac Newton, the girls and I got a good feel for his life last year when we read the chapter about him in R.S. Ball's Great Astronomers (AO Year 5). He strikes me as one of those brilliant, weird types. His intelligence is stunning, and I'm glad he did what he did during his lifetime, but I wouldn't have wanted to sit next to him at a dinner party. And I'm quite sure the feeling would have been mutual. I suffer no illusions, believe me!

Sunday, November 25, 2012

Two New Galileo Notebooking Pages

I've been messing about with creating a few notebooking pages for scientists we are studying in Paul Fleisher's series, Secrets of the Universe, which is a part of Ambleside Online's Year 6 curriculum. I've uploaded my latest two on Scribd.

This first is a generic page featuring a rendering of the man himself and two quotations.

Galileo Notebooking Page

The second page is more specific to Fleisher's Objects in Motion: Principles of Classical Mechanics. It highlights the Law of Pendulum Motion and the Law of Uniform Acceleration. I used the same rendering but a different quotation.

Galileo Notebooking Page: Two Laws

Why I chose the quotations I chose: I found it intriguing that Galileo, a devout Christian, often criticizes the Church in Rome in his writings for its stance against heliocentrism. For Galileo, one's firm and unyielding faith in God did not negate one's own God-given power of observation and reason.

I hope you find these useful!

Wednesday, October 10, 2012

Archimedes' Principle Notebooking Page

I just uploaded a one-page notebooking page for Archimedes' Principle. There's room for writing and a box for drawing a picture illustrating the principle (or whatever -- like Archimedes in his bathtub).

Archimedes' Principle Notebooking Page

Enjoy!

Monday, October 8, 2012

Johannes Kepler Notebooking Pages

The girls and I have been studying Kepler's three laws of planetary motion (read about that here). I created a two notebooking pages for my girls to use (a PDF document) and uploaded them to Scribd for anyone to use, free. Here's the link and a preview:

Johannes Kepler PDF Notebooking Pages

Hope this is helpful!