Benjamin Franklin Lapbook

Author: Ingri & Edward d'Aulaire
ISBN: 0964380390

Summary: An intuitive understanding of the things children love to know, combined with the d'Aulaire's extraordinary artistic ability make this book on the life of one of America's most beloved founders a perennial classic. Folk art style illustrations are enhanced with pert aphorisms from Poor Richard's Almanac on each page. Readers will learn that Benjamin was the youngest of seventeen children "all counted" and that "it was a piece of luck that his kite experiment had not killed him." They will also come to know the inventor whose thirst for knowledge led him to constantly seek to improve the lives of his fellow men. Readers will follow his life as a leader in the American Revolution and ambassador to both Britain and France and learn why the French hailed him as the man who "tore the lightening from the sky and the scepter from tyrants."

The following lapbook components have been created to go with the book, Benjamin Franklin, by the d'Aulaires. Some of the minit books require additional research.

Benjamin Franklin Lapbook Templates File 1
includes ~ cover page, wit & wisdom envelope with quotes, Widow Dogwood's writings matchbook, life in Pennsylvania matchbook, on the run layer book, sound advice flap, journey to London map, first trip to England side by side, vocabulary pocket (you need to make your own cards), Declaration of Independence pocket, third trip envelope book, helping others fan

Benjamin Franklin Lapbook Templates File 2
includes~ Ben Franklin's family simple fold, finding time to read simple fold, apprenticeship flap book, lessons learned in childhood accordion, second trip to england flap, did you know? file folders, story of the hatmaker shape book, the thirteen colonies scroll, Poor Richard's Almanac simple fold, trip to france shutterfold, Deborah Read simple fold, Electricty simple fold, inventions book, America vs. England shuttertied