How to Make a Biology Flipbook
Flipbooks can be applied to almost any biology lesson, instantly livening up the curriculum. Creating a flipbook engages both visual and kinesthetic learners, making it an appropriate assignment for enriching biology curriculum. Students can recreate almost any biological process or biological activity through a flipbook. This activity appeals to students of varied skill level. For students with limited skills, provide them with images for their flipbooks and help them to assemble it. Older and higher skilled students can create their own flipbooks using basic instructions.
Things You'll Need
- Photos, sketches or printed sequential images of a movement or function
- Cardstock, thin cardboard or construction paper
- Ruler
- Pencil
- Scissors
- Fastener (stapler, hole punch and string, binder clip or bankers clip)
Instructions
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Identify a theme or concept from biology or the curriculum. Flipbooks can be used to recreate anything that has movement. In biology, this includes many things, such as human, animal or cellular movement. Decide on a specific event or function. The simpler the movement, the easier it will be to recreate.
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Take photos, make drawings or print images for the flipbook. If the movement or event is something that can be observed by students, they can take pictures of it and use real photos to make a flipbook. If the topic is not something that can be easily observed or photographed in the classroom, ask students to draw an image multiple times, showing incremental movement or change in each drawing. For young children, images can be printed from the Internet or drawn and reproduced for the whole class, so that students only are required to assemble the flipbook.
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Prepare the content for the flipbook. Print photos or have them printed by a photo processing center. When using drawings, cut them into equally sized squares or rectangles of 3-by-5, 4-by-6 or 5-by-7 inches. Organize the pages into a stack, with the first page on the top of the stack and the last page on the bottom. Flip through the stack to make sure the movement occurs.
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Create a front and back cover for the flipbook. This can be made from cardstock paper, thin cardboard or construction paper. It will help protect the contents and provide a place to write a title and the student's information.
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Assemble the flipbook. Bind the images and covers together using either a stapler, two holes on one side bound with string, a binder clip or a banker clip.
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References
- Photo Credit Ableimages/Lifesize/Getty Images
