How do I learn about notebooking with history?

[Heart_Mom]

In the fall, I'm planning to start a 2-3 year study of world history with my then 5th and 7th grade daughters, mostly likely using Sonlight's Cores G & H. I would like my girls to create notebooking pages for the people / events that we study, ideally without templates and pre-made pages. But I am new to notebooking and don't know where to start. 

 

Could you please describe to me some ways that we could do this? What types of writings, drawings, maps, etc. can be included in notebooking pages? Are there links to blog posts that would help me? I just don't even really know what these pages could possibly look like, so some pictures of examples would be very helpful. It might also help my very artistic 7th grader get a vision for what she would like her pages to look like. 

 

Thank you so much for any help you can give me! 

 

Blessings,

Heart_Mom :)

 

 

[Momling]

We do a portfolio in history. It might be what you're looking for. I'll PM you a link to a video I took of what my daughter did last semester.

[Kristie in Florida]

We can't draw. But we scrapbook. I have some college textbooks that we are mutilating by cutting out the pictures. It is as simple as writing about the thing (Ancient Greek theater for example ) and pasting a picture of the theater to it. That was fourth grade. Lately she has been pasting the pictures into her Book of Centuries. I hate mutilating books but we ran out of printer ink and they were just sitting there.

[Kristie in Florida]

I dug around and found this. We did foldables this day instead of notebook ing pages but you can get the idea.

[Heart_Mom]

We do a portfolio in history. It might be what you're looking for. I'll PM you a link to a video I took of what my daughter did last semester.

Momling, thank you! This has been so helpful! :)

 

We can't draw. But we scrapbook. I have some college textbooks that we are mutilating by cutting out the pictures. It is as simple as writing about the thing (Ancient Greek theater for example ) and pasting a picture of the theater to it. That was fourth grade. Lately she has been pasting the pictures into her Book of Centuries. I hate mutilating books but we ran out of printer ink and they were just sitting there.

This might be a good option for my daughter who is less confident in her drawing skills ... thank you! 

 

I dug around and found this. We did foldables this day instead of notebook ing pages but you can get the idea.

Oh, I love this idea! Thank you for digging around to find them for me! :)

[Kristie in Florida]

I was embarrassed to post them! Eek it was our first year and I had no idea what we were doing.