Spring Science Learning Lapbooks: Earth Day, Plants, and Life Cycles

Spring is the perfect time to dig into science topics that feel real, relevant, and exciting for students. With the world blooming around them, students are naturally curious about plants, animals, and how life works. That’s where hands-on spring science learning lapbooks come in!

These interactive spring science lapbooks are designed to combine crafts, writing, and science content into one lesson each day. With a jam-packed spring schedule, this is a welcome solution to trying to fit everything into each day. The learning lapbooks are low prep for teachers, high-interest for students, and cover the standards for science through the lens of Earth Day, life cycles, and living things.

Let’s explore each lapbook featured in this spring collection.

Living Things Science Lapbook

This foundational lapbook introduces students to the big idea: What makes something alive? It covers the characteristics of living things. It’s the perfect starting point before diving into all the other plant and animal content.

Earth Day Lapbook

This Earth Day lapbook gives students a space to reflect on how they can care for the Earth while learning about conservation, recycling, and Earth’s resources too. Students cut, glue, label, and write all while depending their understanding of this precious planet.

Plant Science Lapbook

Ready to grow student learning? This plant science lapbook explores parts of a plant, plant needs, life cycles, and seed to plant stages. The flap design style allows students to interact with their learning in engaging and exciting ways.

Chicken Science and Oviparous Animals Lapbook

This adorable chicken science lapbook focuses on the chicken life cycle and introduces students to the broader concept of oviparous animals. It’s fun, factual, and makes the cutest keepsake. Packed with learning we love to pair students from lower grades with upper grades to create this masterpiece.

Butterfly Science Lapbook

What better symbol of spring than the butterfly? In this butterfly science lapbook, students explore the metamorphosis process from egg to butterfly. This is a visual and hands-on way to help students organize their learning on butterflies!

Frogs and Amphibians Science Lapbook

Hold on to your tadpoles, this frog science lapbook swims through learning with highly engaging content. The students love the friendly frog craft to house all their exciting new learning.

Plant and Animal Interdependence Lapbook

This plant and animal interdependence lapbook dives deeper into ecosystems with a focus on food chains and how plants and animals rely on each other. Students explore the plant and animal relationships while writing and creating a keepsake foldable.

Why Teachers Love Spring Science Lapbooks

• hands-on interactive low-prep learning
• integrates writing with science
• supports vocabulary development
• student-created personalized keepsake
• perfect for portfolios and displays

Spring is bursting with opportunities to make science meaningful and these lapbooks give your students the chance to explore, create, and learn through crafts, writing, and science. Find the standards alignment and a full list of all our science lapbooks in this post.