The A Journey Through Learning lapbook was an outstanding spine.  I had never used one of their lapbooks before, but it won’t be the last one!  It was put together in a very organized, simple to implement way – refreshing!!

We also completed some of our own inventions using ideas from the Teacher Created Materials Inventions book.  (You can find links to the books I’m mentioning below.)  The kids LOVED creating their own inventions.  I’ve put together a little slideshow of our lapbooks and inventions….

Below is the list of resources that have been in the sidebar.  We read a few more great books from the library, too…Lights Out,So You Want to Be An Inventor?, I Is for Idea: An Inventions Alphabet, The Berenstain Bears Fly-It! Up, Up, and Away!

Inventors and Inventions

Lesson Idea Links from The Homeschool Mom

Lots of Links from About.com

Next stop, Simple Machines!  You can find the resources for that unit in the sidebar very soon.