Make history come ALIVE for your children! Designed to go along with The Story of the World Volume 3: Early Modern Times 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 homeschool curriculum 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 activities that best fit the ages, personalities, and learning styles of your children. You might hold a Japanese tea ceremony, act out sumo wrestling, make your own Mayflower Compact, or cook 17th-century succotash. The Ottoman miniature paintings are especially fun! Consumable Student Pages are photocopiable within a family, but you can always purchase another set for convenience. 497 pgs. sc.
*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).
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.
In 42 chapters, the third volume of Story of the World takes another good-sized bite out of world history. Topics covered in Volume 3 include Japanese warlords, colonies in the "New World", the spread of slavery, the "Sun King" of France, English control in India, imperialist China, The Revolutionary War, Captain Cook's explorations, Age of Industrialism in Europe, Napoleon, French Revolution, Lewis & Clark, Mexican independence, Africa and colonialism, the Opium Wars, the Gold Rush, and much, much more. The activity book is only available in paperback, and **revised** student activity pages are reproducible for families only - not co-ops or schools. - Jess
| Product Format: | Softcover Book |
|---|---|
| Brand: | Well-Trained Mind Press |
| Grades: | 3-8 |
| ISBN: | 9781945841477 |
| Length in Inches: | 11 |
| Width in Inches: | 8.5 |
| Height in Inches: | 1.375 |
| Weight in Pounds: | 3.4625 |
