French Revolution Lapbook

Start out a unit study or lapbook with something hands-on instead of something that could be boring. Necessary background information on your topic or even studying dates can come after you introduce something engaging.

I want my kids to learn those necessary facts of a topic like the French Revolution, but starting them out on things like the causes of the French Revolution or talking about the 3 Estates of French society may put them to sleep. It may put me to sleep too.

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Hands-on Learning First

Make learning palatable by deciding the order you want to present printables and for most kids its normally after you have presented something that hooks them on the topic. It doesn’t have to be a hands-on project. When we started our FBI unit study we popped popcorn and watched a documentary on netflix to kick off our unit study.

That is why I delay some of the printables for the lapbook. So now my kids have had time to play a game about the French Revolution and make something sweet tasting like chocolate sandwiches. It just makes the formal part of learning a little more pleasant.

Today, I have minibooks 4 and 5 for you. The above picture shows you where we are starting to place our minibooks. Of course you can place them the same way or use part of our minibooks and others you find. But my books are pretty easy and I like it that way since we do lapbooks for enrichment.

French Revolution Lapbook

Also, sometimes we add recipes that we did to our lapbook, but Tiny hasn’t decided yet if he wants to add them. Even if you do add it later, you simply rearrange the minibooks.

Book 4 is an open face book to label the 3 Estates. Class distinctions was one of the problems of the French Revolution. The largest class was the common folks and most of them didn’t have the necessities of life, like bread. So we looked up some scriptures about partiality in the Bible and discussed some about equality for all man.

Download Label the Three Estates minibook here.

Book 5 is a small layered book about the causes of the French Revolution. You could add several more causes for the French Revolution than the 3 easy ones I included in this minibook. The French Revolution is certainly a high school topic but chisel it down to make it an elementary or middle school topic like I have done here. It certainly is easier to tweak it down for an age, than it is at times to flesh it out for a highschooler.