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HELP! suggestions needed for hands-on middle school co-op history classes/curriculum?


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I'm looking for curriculum suggestions for a 10-week middle school history study in a co-op. For grades 6-7-8.  I'd like to make the classes exciting and hands-on, although this is probably beyond the lapbooking age.  Any suggestions?  Beyond medieval.  Topics such as Great Inventors, etc.  would be appreciated.  But I am looking for something that would have a set curriculum to guide the lessons, nothing that would need to be created from scratch. 

 

Thank you for any and all suggestions!

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What era are you studying?  You said "beyond medieval" but I'm not sure if you simply don't want a survey class, or specifically don't want anything from that time period.  ???

 

I did a Leonardo da Vinci class that was hands-on without being lapbook heavy (we built lots of replicas of his inventions).  Take a look, I have all the resources listed here: http://www.libertyhillhouse.com/2013/05/14/leonardo-da-vinci-lesson-plans/  My class was of mixed levels, so I chose Leonardo da Vinci by Kathleen Krull as the spine, but you could easily substitute a longer, more in depth biography.   

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Can't recommend highly enough Stanford History Education Group's free history lessons, Reading Like a Historian, http://sheg.stanford.edu/rlh.

 

Primary documents, compelling questions (that don't have simple answers) to ponder, everything all chosen and ready for you to use.  We have liked the American History lessons better than the World History ones so far--the world history documents are harder to read, and the issues are more removed from the kids' lives.  But everything there is top-notch and is great for going into depth on specific historical issues with a group.  I've written about it in some other thread somewhere here....

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