As I explained (or, you know, shamelessly bragged out) in my last post, we finished all the history recently. I wanted to make a list of the big resources we loved most over the last five years. Story
I am starting a series where I share our Story of the World adventures. We started when my son was 7, and went very slowly at first, adjusting lessons to his short attention span. The next year we joined up with a co-op doing this Volume, and went at a much faster pace, so later chapters (7 and on) show that somewhat. I took notes and am gradually adding these as I have time. Sorry for the slow place on adding new units. NOTE: I don't want anyone to think you HAVE to do all the supplementary stuff we did for SOTW. Many people just read the chapters and talk about them, maybe do an extra activity now and then. We did so much at first because I have a kiddo that needed that to get him engaged, and also because I love history and just wanted to do some of these things with him. But as we progressed we gradually did less projects and supplementing. STORY OF THE WORLD POSTS All of my Story of the World posts will be linked below, once they're published. GENERAL SOTW RELATED POSTS My Review of the Story of the World Adjustments for Learners With Short Attentions Spans SOTW Bible Integration Historical Errors in Story of the World (Volume I) SOTW Guides on Other Sites Index of Changes in Revised Version Magic Treehouse Reading Alligned to SOTW Vol 1 and Vol 2 OTHER HISTORY RELATED POSTS Resources Combining History and Science Dover Sampler Free History Printables You-Tube Through Ancient History for Middle and High Schoolers OUR LESSON PLANS/IDEAS BY CHAPTER Each post will be linked as it is added INTRO How Do We Know What Happened - What Is History - What is Archaeology Chap 1 The Earliest People - The First Nomads - The First Nomads Become Farmers Chap 2 Egyptians Lived on the Nile River - Two Kingdoms Become One - Gods of Ancient Egypt Chap 3 The First Writing Chap 4 The Old Kingdom of Egypt - Making Mummies - Egyptian Pyramids Chap 5 The First Sumerian Dictator Chap 6 - The Jewish People Chap 7 - Hammurabi and the Babylonians Chap 8 - The Assyrians Chap 9 The First Cities of India - The River Road - The Mystery of Mohenjo-Daro Chap 10 The Far East: Ancient China - Lei Zu and the Silkworm - The Pictograms of Ancient China - Farming in Ancient China Chap 11 Ancient Africa - Ancient Peoples of West Africa - Anansi and Turtle - Anansi and the Make Believe Food (Sorry, we skipped this) Chap 12 The Middle Kingdom of Egypt - Egypt Invades Nubia - The Hyksos Invade Egypt Chap 13 The New Kingdom of Egypt - The General and the Woman Pharaoh - Amenhotep and King Tut Chap 14 The Israelites Leave Egypt (Moses/Exodus) Chap 15 The Phoenicians Chap 16 The Return of the Assyrians --- Chapter 18 - 25 (Ancient Greece) For now, I'm just sharing a outline of the resources I used for these chapters. Please stop by often to see what's been added! This post is linking up at Hip Homeschool Moms, The Homeschool Nook, A Little Bird Told Me, Love to Learn Hop, School House Review, Dear Homeschooler Bookshelf, Throwback Thursday, and Back to Homeschool Blog Hop 2017 (no longer up): Curriculum, and various other homeschool link-ups. If you would like to share this post but need a more square graphic....here you go....
Classical Conversations CC reading correlations for Cycle 1, Cycle 2, and Cycle 3. Matches up each subject and week with SOTW, MOH, and other resources.
These history videos for kids cover the four year history cycle--ancient, medieval, early modern, and modern. This gallery of videos is absolutely amazing!
100 Oregon Trail Homeschool History Resources. If you're studying Westward Ho or The Oregon Trail, your kids will love these resources to round out a study.
Download a set of free printable cards to help your children remember major historical events.
Explore all these Greek Mythology Resources and FREE Printables we found for you! There are printables, crafts, games, coloring pages, and more.
We’re shifting gears into ancient world history and here are a few of the materials we’re currently using.
The following lapbook components are a completion of the wonderful lapbook components that Alia started. Due to circumstances out of her control, she was unable to complete Volume 2. I offered to complete them for her and make them available here on my blog for a suggested donation of $3. I've included the pictures of our lapbook. We decided to make a castle to hold all of our SOTW chapter elements. This is two file folders glued back to back. I spray painted the file folders gray--it took four coats as I was trying to cover a purple file folder. I would recommend spraying the regular manilla colored file folder. I think the colored ones have a slight finish on them that made it hard for the paint to adhere. I let my girls each choose a "castle door" from google images and we printed it on white paper and glued it to our lapbook. The knights are stickers. The letters came from my trusty pile of scrapbook goodies. To download The Story of the World Volume 2 components for chapters 1-23, go HERE. I hope you and your children enjoy lapbooking together! Thanks for stopping by! Story of the World Volume 2 (Chapters 24+) Many hours went into this project. As this is only half of the book, I'm asking for a suggested donation of $3. All donations received will go towards the ministry my husband and I have of sending couples to a week long marriage retreat at The JH Ranch. Blessings to you! Feel free to leave me a comment and let me know what you love about lapbooking! If you have a specific question, feel free to email me at johnstonhouse at gmail dot com. Looking for SOTW 1? (created by Alia) Check in out HERE. Looking for SOTW 3? Check it out HERE.
Get the most out of The Mystery of History when you combine it with resources like notebooking pages, coloring pages, Lapbooks, challenge cards and more!
I've created a timeline and some notebooking pages that correspond with The Story of the World Vol. 1, Ancient Times. I'd like to share th...
Supplies Needed Brown paper bag White glue Water Wax paper Bowl Stir Stick What to do Step 1 Rip the brown paper bag into one inch wide strips of equal length. Step 2 In a bowl make a mixture of half glue and half water. (To make one sheet of papyrus you only need about 1/
Discover a huge selection of FREE resources for compiling an Ancient Greece unit study.
It's not hard to make history come alive by adding in activities, crafts, projects, and of course, history games! History is much better when it feels like play and not work. So I had to make a version of the Mesopotamian game that we call The Royal Game of Ur. What better way to connect
Includes Gilgamesh, Puabi, Sargon of Akkad, Naram-Sin of Akkad, Gudea, Hammurabi, Ashurnasirpal, Tiglath Pileser III, Sennacherib, Ashurbanipal, Nebuchadnezzar
Medieval Chemistry and Homeschool History. Science wasn't really dead during the Middle Age, it's just people fanaticized about turning items to gold.
We are well and truly in the mix of Medieval Times in regards to our history reading. This year we are following along with Story Of The ...
What do you picture when you think of the Middle Ages? Do you imagine castles and knights and damsels in distress? What about smelly cess pits or teeth-pulling barbers or the bubonic plague? There …
Are you looking for living books for ancient history for your homeschool? Here's a huge list!
What Every Child Needs to Know About Western Civilization by Brimwood Press is a unique and unbelievably quick overview of world history.
As well as looking at art from our modern age, I also try to introduce children to folk art and tribal art from around the world, as well as the imagery created by ancient civilisations and prehist…
Free printable Bible Timeline Cards and Pages. This set includes Biblical and Word History from Creation to the Resurrection.
Learn about Ancient Greek civilization with FREE printable Greece Coloring Pages for kids! Read, color, & learn about acropolis, Olympics, and more!
Elementary introduction to Archaeology. Book list, activities, and online streaming media resources for your science and history lesson plans.
This post contains affiliate links. When you use them, it helps support my family. Thanks! These are Ancient and Bible notebooking pages and activities I created for my kids and have been using for…
Dive into the history of WW2 for Kids with these free printable World War 2 coloring pages filled with facts for children to read, colour, and learn.
Are you studying the Middle Ages or Medieval/Renaissance Times in your history this year? Maybe your children are just fascinated with princesses, knights and dragons. I love finding printables to supplement what we are studying in our homeschool, or to help peak my children's interest in a specific subject.
I have recently listened to the free audio clip for the Mystery of History Volume 1 and promptly went and ordered the audio cd's for my family!
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Homeschool Resources: Teaching Ancient Rome is a collection of printables, books, art, hands-on activities and more for teaching Ancient Rome in your homeschool.
Now that some of my children are moving into middle school, and soon high school, I wanted each of them to have a timeline notebook that they can use and add to throughout their middle
Grab these top 10 free popular homeschool history printables over at Tina's Dynamic Homeschool Plus.You'll love her printables for lapbooks & unit studies.
**Before I start the post, I want to tell you about this website that a friend of mine in our homeschool group passed on this AWESOME resource: Historical Fiction for Children and Young Adults. Just
A compilation of the best ideas I've seen for an awesome detective classroom theme.
Because there is no escaping the fact that my kids are firmly in Generation i, I have found that I get the best results when I incorporate as much video into our school days as possible. This year,…
The last week or so we have learned a lot about King Arthur and Charlemagne. Last week, I shared our monasteries worksheets. This week we finished reading a fabulous book about King Arthur. I’ve read a lot of King Arthur stories/books over the years, but this one was absolutely perfect for our homeschool… with rich exciting tales that the kids and I all loved! I mentioned it last week, but it’s...
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.
