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Story of the World Volume 4 Modern Age Activity Book
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031207
ISBN
9781945841927
Grade 4-8
Classical
Neutral
Medium Teacher Involvement
Multi-Sensory
Other Materials Required
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Charlotte Mason
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- Experience history with multi-sensory activities!
- Use alongside Volume 4 Text for a complete curriculum
- Perfect for grades 4-8, but often used with younger students as well
- Flexible for multi-level teaching
Description
Make history come ALIVE for your children! Designed to go along with The Story of the World Volume 4: The Modern Age Text, this Activity Book provides a rich assortment of multi-sensory activities to complement and enrich readings from the Text. Together, the Activity Book and Text make a complete, well-rounded one-year history/geography study that kids won’t soon forget!
The book is divided into 2 sections: an easy-to-use teacher’s guide with activities organized chapter by chapter in the front and consumable student pages in the back. After reading the history text, turn to the corresponding chapter of the Activity Book, choosing what best fits the ages, personalities, and learning styles of your children. You might bake Naan bread, memorize the Gettysburg Address, build your own torpedo, practice Kung Fu, write a Mariachi song, do a science experiment to see how oil refining works, and more! Consumable Student Pages are photocopiable within a family or you can purchase another set for convenience. 542 pgs. sc.
- Each lesson includes the following multi-level teaching activities:
- Cross-references to Kingfisher and Usborne history encyclopedias
- Comprehension & review questions with answers
- Narration exercises
- Corresponding literature suggestions
- Additional history readings
- Map and Timeline Work
- Coloring pages and review cards
- A variety of games, puzzles, and consumable paper activities
- All sorts of hands-on activities and art/craft projects! (Most use common household/art supplies)
*Note: Includes cross-references to 4 encyclopedias: The Usborne Book of World History, The Usborne Internet-Linked Encyclopedia of World History, The Kingfisher Illustrated History of the World, and The Kingfisher History Encyclopedia (revised).
Publisher's Description of Story of the World Volume 4 Modern Age Activity Book
The Activity Book turns The Story of the World Volume 4: Modern Age into a full year of history and geography study! Provides curated reading lists, map work, coloring pages, review questions, exercises, and hands-on projects to bring modern history to life. Includes teacher instructions and one set of consumable student pages.
Category Description for The Story Of The World (Elementary Grades)
The Story of the World is a 4-volume series that will get you EXCITED about history! The engaging narrative guides you, story-by-story, through chronological world history—providing important context to make history relatable AND memorable for kids. Each level consists of a Text, Activity Book, and optional Tests and Audio CD. History’s overarching story is broken up as follows:
Volume 1: Ancient Times covers history from the earliest Nomads to the last Roman Emperor
Volume 2: Middle Ages spans the Dark Ages through the Renaissance
Volume 3: Early Modern Times extends from the Holy Roman Empire to the Gold Rush
Volume 4: Modern Age covers history from the Victorian Empire to the fall of the USSR
This series makes for an excellent homeschool world history curriculum. Perfect for multi-level learning, short chapters in each Text are wonderful to read aloud as a family or can be read independently by older students. Black-and-white illustrations and maps throughout each volume enhance learning, and appendix sections provide a timeline, list of included maps, and pronunciation guide to people, places, and events in the book. Optional Audio CDs allow you to listen to the text as read by Jim Weiss, a professional storyteller.
The Text is not a traditional textbook. Rather, it contains the reading material for this history curriculum and it is intended to be used alongside the Activity Book to complete a full and well-rounded one-year history and geography study.
After reading through a chapter in the Text, simply flip to the corresponding chapter in the Activity Book and choose from the options available to find what best fits your child’s needs and learning style. For example, there are comprehension questions, narration exercises, map and geography activities, coloring pages, suggested additional history and literature readings, and multi-sensory projects to reinforce the reading in the text. You get to choose!
There are about 150 consumable student pages in each activity book. These include the coloring sheets, maps, games, and other paper activities, which are reproducible within families, though extra sets of Student Pages are available for purchase.
Each activity book also contains many hands-on projects that are user-friendly and allow kids to experience history in unique ways! They will have the chance to do everything from building a hut to making their own cuneiform tablets, mummifying a chicken, baking an African or Greek feast, creating purple dye, erupting a volcano, making an Olympic wreath, crafting a Native American sand painting, and much more!
The optional Tests and Answer Key book offers a test, with answers, for each chapter.
Story of the World curriculum is flexible! Although designed for elementary students in grades 1-4, the text is often used by older students, along with the map work, additional readings, and other exercises in the Activity Book, which can extend the learning to a much higher level. You decide how much to do!
If you are looking for bundles containing curriculum essentials, we’ve got you covered. We offer packages tailored to every Story of the World volume:
- Basic Packages include the Text, Activity Book, and Tests
- Combo Packs add Student Pages to the Basic Package
- Complete Packages include the Text, Activity Book, Tests, and Audio CDs.
If you would like to purchase all four Text volumes at once, we provide Sets both in hardcover and softcover. A set of all four Audio CDs is also available.
Category Description for Story Of The World Volume 4: Modern Age
Enthusiastic users of Susan Wise Bauer's Story of the World will be excited to rediscover the modern era, "From Victoria's Empire to the End of the USSR." This text contains 42 chapters discussing some of the major people, places and events in world history, from 1850 to 2000. Some highlights include: the Crimean war, the American Civil War, the Second Reich, the Japan's Meiji restoration, the Suez canal, the Boers, Western expansion in the U.S., the Boxer Rebellion in China, the Mexican Revolution, the rise of Joseph Stalin, Hitler's rise to power, the Holocaust, the Atom bomb, the partitioning of Palestine, the Cold War, the Vietnam War, Chernobyl, the end of Communism, and much more. Once again, Susan Wise Bauer has put together a very exciting and multi-faceted history study that everyone will love! The text is available in either paperback or hardcover. The activity book is a bound paperback. - Jess
Details
| Product Format: | Softcover Book |
|---|---|
| Brand: | Well-Trained Mind Press |
| Grades: | 4-8 |
| ISBN: | 9781945841927 |
| Length in Inches: | 11 |
| Width in Inches: | 8.5 |
| Height in Inches: | 1.625 |
| Weight in Pounds: | 4.1 |
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