Free Texas Homeschool Lapbook and Fun Homeschool Unit Study Ideas. You'll love this free Texas homeschool lapbook. Grab more lapbooks on my lapbook ideas page.
These free history unit studies and lesson plans are perfect for piecing together a history curriculum based on your children’s interests.
Learn how to use a compass Make salt Practice mapping "to scale" Learn how to write a biographical report Learn how to "dead reckon" distances Make skillet biscuit bread And much
These Ancient Rome activities will keep kids interested while they learn about this ancient culture.
We have been doing some fascinating activities for our Medieval History unit, (Viking Runes, Medieval Illuminations, and our own homemade Medieval Subtleties) but this craft or "craftivity" turned out the most beautiful of all. We created our own stained glass windows! This is an easy activity, especially if you purchase our premade Medieval Window packet which includes 4 possible designs for your students to choose from to make their window. You will also need a transparency sheet (or some recycled flat plastic), a sharpie, food coloring and glue. And some Q-tips. Because we always fall back on Q-tips as an easy go-to paintbrush for these kinds of activities. After drawing the designs on the transparencies with black sharpies, we cut out our window shapes. And we began to fill in the window shapes with our glue paint. To make it easier, we cut out our paper design and taped it, along with the transparency to the table. It kept our image stable while the kids filled in the colors. After the colored glue had dried, we cut out our window edging and glued it over the glass. An optional idea is to go over the top of the sharpie with black puffy paint. This raised black edging makes the stained glass really pop. It feels just like the leaded glass stained windows you might see in an old church or heraldic window. The finished product is tacked to the window so that the light can stream through, just like it streamed through Medieval stained glass windows, many years ago. A beautiful finished product! Check out our packet that includes everything you need to create this craft, here in our store. Reviews "My students were completely engaged and created a great deal of stained glass with this project. We researched how stained glass was made with Medieval techniques (the V&A Museum has a fantastic video!) and then we got to work, having unearthed a box of old transparencies, which I think really makes this project. We also were creating them for our Medieval Faire for our K-3rd graders and they found the stained glass captivating. I would have never guessed they would have looked so good! Excellent lesson!" --- Anne C. "Loved the informational text. It was so helpful. The activity wasn't as engaging as I'd hoped, but it was still worth the purchase." --- Get Schooled "We a learning about the role of churches during the Medieval time period so this is a great supplemental for us and a nice break from the heavy reading and material. The students enjoyed creating these." --- Pham-tastic Teaching "One of the better stained-glass projects I've seen. Worked greatly for my A&H class!" --- Eli Edwards "We used the patterns to make our own stained glass. We used sharpies instead of glue and they came out beautifully." --- Tippecanoe "I used this resource to supplement what we were learning in class. My students loved the activity?" --- Wendy E. "This was a fun activity to do in my summer program during medieval week." --- Karen C. "My students really enjoyed making them, and were so proud of the outcome. We did what someone else suggested and just used permanent sharpies. They look awesome!" --- Randy Bland "My students loved this activity! We completed it in the middle of our Middle Ages reading unit. To make them even more stained glass in appearance, they lightly used a cotton ball to spread vegetable oil on the back to make them translucent." --- Dayna K. Check out our packet that includes everything you need to create this craft, here in our store.
Make history come alive for students as they study early explorers like Henry the Navigator and Marco Polo for Kids with hands-on activities and printables!
Switzerland Unit Study - An extensive unit study on Switzerland that includes history, geography, reading, lapbooking and so much more!
Look for ideas for the Age of Exploration? Then you need to read this post with over 30 ideas for the age of Exploration.
These Ancient Rome activities will keep kids interested while they learn about this ancient culture.
In this Arctic Unit Study, you'll discover the stories, animals, & history with meaningful Charlotte Mason style + STEAM activities.
Free Early American History Curriculum - Columbus Through The Civil War - Welcome to the first post in the Free American History Curriculum ! If you've ...
Update: this unit study is no longer available for free. Okay guys, I'm excited to finally share our Vikings Unit Study with you! I've been talking about
ALL ABOUT EARTH Get ready for a month filled with so many fun activities to teach your kiddos all about our planet Earth . I teach this unit in April so it coincides with Earth Day. I’ve loaded up this blog post post with read aloud book ideas, free videos you can share with your students,
Free Pilgrim Worksheets. Full Pilgrims Lesson Plans designed for first grade - fifth grade. This is a complete free pilgrims unit full of lots of information. This Pilgrims unit is complete with worksheets, calendar, and even a Mayflower project! All free for you to use with your students.
Welcome to Notebooking Across the USA, a series of unit studies covering each state in the U.S. in order of admission to the union. You can find the landing page for this series with links to each states unit study as they are published, along with tips, suggestions, and recommended resources for this series here: Notebooking Across the USA. These unit studies are written with homeschool [...]
Make your study come alive with these Ancient Rome unit study activities and ideas that we used with MFW Rome to the Reformation.
It all started with a routine trip to the library. We picked up our next book in the Magic Treehouse series, which just happened to be Day of the Dragon Ki
Do you need a homeschool history curriculum for elementary kids? I'm sharing my secrets and resources for creating a love of history in your homeschool!
Handy free printable leif erikson for kids worksheet and coloring pages to make into readers to learn about famous early explorer!
Learn about Ancient Greek civilization with FREE printable Greece Coloring Pages for kids! Read, color, & learn about acropolis, Olympics, and more!
Reading about the explorers to America and doing hands-on activities helps us too explore. This time, we're exploring the explorers!
Montessori-inspired Africa themed learning activities and free printables for kids.
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Amelia Earhart Unit Study. Great for use in homeschool setting with mutliple grades from Kindergarten to older. Print and go worksheets with activities, book suggestions and more.
A history timeline will help your children see the chronological flow of history and make connections between events and people.
You can find all of these resources to create your own Marco Polo Unit Study HERE.
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Learn about France with this France preschool unit! Activities, crafts, food, songs, etc to give your child a taste of France.
Have you ever wondered what you 'should' teach in an elementary history course? This post is for you! It can help you choose an elementary history curriculum or you can use it as a starting
The object of your mission is to explore the Missouri river & as, by it's course and communication with the waters of the Pacific Ocean...
You'll LOVE this set of resources for a simple and fun Christopher Columbus unit study. Using living books & simple activities it's great any time of year!
I attempted to do a wall timeline with Caroline a number of years ago. For a variety of reasons, it did not work for her. I think part of it was her age, part of it was her learning challenges, and part of it was the layout. However, I believe a timeline can be a
This was the second project I did with my Grade 7's during our "Art of Japan" unit. They designed their own kimono using a version of a bookmark template found here on the Crayola website. Kimonos are the beautiful traditional floor length robes worn mostly by Japanese women on special occasions. They are very expensive (often exceeding $10,000!) and beautifully patterned. I showed students examples of kimonos and then had them sketch ideas for a pattern in their sketchbooks. Image Source Image Source Each student got a blank template (which I modified from the one on the Crayoyla site) showing a very basic kimono with the robe, body and Obi (the sash). There were lots of Obi-Wan Kenobi jokes during this demo...lol I drew my own simple template and then photocopied it onto regular paper. When I do this project again, I would copy it onto cardstock, as the regular paper was too thin, really. I mean, it worked, but cardstock would be better (more sturdy). Draw your design/pattern in pencil then colour in with colored pencils or markers or watercolours. Students could do any type of pattern they wanted- not only traditional. Here's a camouflage pattern below, for example. Draw a little face. Colouring with markers..... Then cut all the pieces out... The Crayola sheet shows how to fold it all together- I also walked around and helped the kids individually fold it. It's quite simple. Here they are lined up and chilling out against the whiteboard. If you have a laminator, I would laminate them to make perfect bookmarks (and to make them sturdier). Ta da! On display with their 'Cherry Blossom' paintings.
Take a trip with your homeschool students grades 3-8, and notebook across the USA with these states unit studies. There's a FREE unit study for all 50 states.
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This year we are making Lap Books to go along with each of our six Unit Studies for American History. Our first Unit was based on New World Explorers. While the girls were busy working on their Kaya Lap Books, the boys were busy making their own Lap Books with printable mini books from the […]
US President Unit Study with Free Printable All United States of America Presidents included! Includes BOTH color and black and white worksheets. UPDATE: Joseph Biden has been added. ALSO: Now includes two versions of digital slides. These are great for distance learning or just to save on printing. Worksheets for each president has space for: […]
I designed this Claes Oldenburg coloring page to go along with my second grade sculpture unit. This coloring page would be great as an intro or follow up to a lesson on Claes Oldenburg.
Find out how to get students interested in Greek Mythology gods and goddesses analysis excercise by using the biography project. This is an engaging and memorable student-collaboration activity. You can use this for The Odyssey, The Lightning Thief, Hercules, ancient history, Greek theater, Greek civilization, or for a fun mythology unit.
This Australia Lapbook contains lots of fun and interesting elements as well as hands-on activity for children to learn about this unique country.
