There are a number of different types of scrapbooks. Many people use scrapbooks to document a life or a hobby. Some people use scrapbooks to highlight their participation in a sport or other activity. Scrapbooks can be used as portfolios to collect someone's art work or writing...they can even be used to make storybooks.
These are just a few examples of how you can use scrapbooks in and out of the classroom:
Heritage books: much like a traditional album, these "family tree" scrapbooks document a family history.
Chronological books: this type of scrapbook can be "School Days" book that documents each year a child is in school, or it can be used in a classroom setting for assignments such as the journey of Louis and Clark or the events of a story read in class.
Historical Scrapbooks: These scrapbooks document an event or time period in history. These are great for individual, group, or class projects for students in Social Studies...they can even be used to team-teach English and Social Studies.Alphabetical (ABC Books or Alphabet Books): these books use the alphabet to document a trip to the zoo or pay tribute to a person's character from A to Z.
Biographic/Autobiographic: These pages are wonderful opportunities for people to tell you about themselves or about people that are important to them. They can be about someone in your family, someone you admire, a historical figure or even that favorite "never-miss-one-of-his-films" movie stars.
Journal Scrapbooks (Art Journals): To many people a 'scrapbook is a scrapbook' and a 'journal is a journal'...but for some people, a journal is a place where they collect not just words, but memorabilia.
This is by no means a complete list of all of the different things that can be done between the covers of a scrapbook...these are just a sample of what you can do. Stretch your imagination and decide what you want to do in your book!
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