Scrapbooking is the practice of combining photographs, memorabilia, and written narratives, poetry, quotations, stories, or other textual content into a scrapbook style album. Many different types of scrapbooks can be made including family histories, personal journals and memories, and historical records of organizations, military units, and so on.

Some sites to help in this effort:

• ReadWriteThink: Literary Scrapbooks Online
  This lesson leads students to reflect on and respond to literature by creating an online scrapbook. Using Web resources, students capture “scraps” of information about a piece of literature. Students then create a scrapbook using PowerPoint or another presentation software and share their online scrapbook with the class.
  http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=787

• Exploring China: A Scrapbook
  Your task is to surf through the Internet links provided and find pictures, text, maps, facts, quotes, or controversies that capture your exploration of China. You will capture the text and images that you find important and then you will put them together in a multimedia scrapbook.
  http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/China/scrapbook.html

• A Scrapbook on Second Language Teaching and Learning
  In addition to using books and magazines to find out about English Teaching Method, why not also use the power of the Internet? Here you dig through a collection of Internet sites organized around specific categories such as, photographs, maps, stories, facts, quotations, sound clips, videos, virtual reality tours, etc., then download or copy and paste these scraps into a variety of formats: newsletter, desktop slide presentation, collage, bulletin board, HyperStudio stack, or web page.
  http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/fil/pages/scrapsecondzh.html

• Geo-Generations Scrapbook
  You may not have known it, but you grew up in a library of geographic knowledge—your family. Your parents, sisters and brothers, grandparents, aunts and uncles, and cousins have probably lived in a variety of places. Those who've lived in the same place for a while have witnessed changes in everything from architecture to politics to pastimes. Gathering stories from your family can give you new insights into the world and your place in it. Chart where members of your family have lived and tell what those places were like.
  http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/activities/17/geogen.html

• Insect Scrapbook
  In this activity, students will have the opportunity to create scrapbooks of insects of all types. In this way they will gain a greater awareness of how many species of insects there are in the world.
  http://wings.avkids.com/Curriculums/Insects/scrapbook_howto.html

• Scholastic.com: Scrapbook Ideas for Animal Research Projects
  Students select and research an animal of interest. Then, help guide them through the “smartest” way to research and graphically organize all the information they find.
  http://teacher.scholastic.com/lessonplans/unit_familyalbum_lesson1.htm

Rubrics:

• Scrapbook Rubric 1
  http://www.readwritethink.org/lesson_images/lesson787/Rubric.pdf

• Scrapbook Rubric 2
  http://www.bcpl.net/~sullivan/modules/tips/rubrics_sec/scrapbook.html

• Scrapbook Rubric 3
  This site features numerous -- searchable -- timelines covering people, events, periods, and places.
  http://www.miracosta.cc.ca.us/conted/esl/ESLcivics/Bernasconi/ScrapbookRubric.htm

Good Luck!

This week features a fascinating bird conservation Web site:

The Raptor Resource Project (RRP)
http://www.raptorresource.org
Finally, a webcam the whole family can enjoy. This nonprofit conservation group pokes cameras inside the nests of peregrine falcons, ospreys, eagles, and owls. You can watch the birds cozy up with their eggs or coddle their newly hatched chicks. Check the what's new page to see what the birds have been up to recently, and get the stats on each nest's occupants. At the Eyrie , you can read the project director's blog or peruse reports on bird banding and family trees. There's even downloadable falcon wallpaper and fact sheets for more details. If the birdcams intrigue you enough to want your own live version, you'll find instructions on building a nest box. You don't need binoculars to watch bird life -- you can do it from your computer.

Enjoy!

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