benzino Posted September 4, 2017 Share Posted September 4, 2017 4th grade student , were in SOTW final book and I'm apprehensive about the intensity of the stories, WWI and II and Nazis - although we covered civil war very well and resurgence of nazis in American news has to be confronted I guess I just miss the initial volumes where the conflicts were more abstract because they took place so long ago. I'm hoping someone can tell me that this was a great year for them and what their highlights were... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lori D. Posted September 4, 2017 Share Posted September 4, 2017 (edited) Why not take a break from SOTW and make your Modern History for 4th grade all about the more exciting and interesting events and people of the past 150 years: - inventions - discoveries - medical break-throughs - scientists - explorers - technology advancements - art/music movements and - biographies of famous 20th century history people Alas, no matter what I do for searching today, I can't seem to find and pull up some of the great past threads with specific book titles and biographies for doing a "cheerier" modern history. These were the only ones that came up in my search: - "The sunnier side of Modern History" - "Movies to supplement Sonlight's Core D" And book and movie ideas from Guest Hollow: 1800-1900 1900-present History Timeline: 20th Century (with ideas of lighter topics/events -- here are some highlights: 1900s1901 - First Nobel Prizes Awarded1901 - First Trans-Atlantic Radio Signal1903 - First Flight at Kitty Hawk1903 - First World Series1904 - Trans-Siberian Railway Completed1905 - Einstein Proposes His Theory of Relativity1906 - San Francisco Earthquake1907 - Picasso Introduces Cubism1909 - Plastic Is Invented1909 - Robert Peary Becomes the First to Reach the North Pole1910s1911 - Ernest Rutherford Discovers the Structure of an Atom1911 - The Incan City of Machu Picchu Discovered1911 - Roald Amundsen Reaches the South Pole1912 - The Titanic Sinks1913 - Henry Ford Creates Assembly Line1914 - Panama Canal Officially Opened1920s1920 - First Commercial Radio Broadcast Aired1922 - Insulin Discovered1922 - Tomb of King Tut Discovered1924 - First Olympic Winter Games1927 - Babe Ruth Makes Home-Run Record1927 - The First Talking Movie, The Jazz Singer1927 - Lindbergh Flies Solo Across the Atlantic1928 - Penicillin Discovered1930s1930 - Planet Pluto Discovered (lol -- and demoted to planetoid in 2006)1931 - Empire State Building Completed1932 - Amelia Earhart First Woman to Fly Solo Across the Atlantic1936 - Hoover Dam Completed1937 - Golden Gate Bridge Opened1939 - Helicopter Invented1940s1940 - Stone Age Cave Paintings Found in France1941 - Mount Rushmore Completed1945 - First Computer Built1947 - Chuck Yeager Breaks the Sound Barrier1947 - Dead Sea Scrolls Discovered1947 - Polaroid Cameras Invented1949 - First Non-Stop Flight Around the World1950s1950 - First Organ Transplant1951 - Color TV Introduced1952 - Polio Vaccine Created1953 - DNA Discovered1953 - Hillary and Norgay Climb Mt. Everest1954 - Roger Bannister Breaks the Four-Minute Mile1957 - Soviet Satellite Sputnik Launches Space Age1960s1960 - Lasers Invented1961 - Soviets Launch First Man in Space1965 - Japan's Bullet Train Opens1967 - First Heart Transplant1969 - Neil Armstrong Becomes the First Man on the Moon1970s1970 - Aswan High Dam Completed1972 - Mark Spitz Wins Seven Gold Medals1973 - Sears Tower Built1976 - Nadia Comaneci Given Seven Perfect Tens1979 - Mother Theresa Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize1980s1980 - Mount St. Helens Erupts1980 - Rubik's Cube Becomes Popular1981 - Personal Computers (PC) Introduced by IBM1983 - Sally Ride Becomes the First American Woman in Space1985 - Wreck of the Titanic Found1990s1990 - Hubble Telescope Launched Into Space1991 - Bronze Age Man Found Frozen in Glacier1994 - Channel Tunnel Opens, Connecting Britain and France1997 - Pathfinder Sends Back Images of Mars1997 - Tallest Buildings in the World Built in Kuala Lumpur1999 - The Euro the New European Currency1999 - Fear of Y2K Bug Edited September 4, 2017 by Lori D. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
benzino Posted September 4, 2017 Author Share Posted September 4, 2017 Thank you for the great direction 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lori D. Posted September 5, 2017 Share Posted September 5, 2017 (edited) Tried one last search, coming at it from an oblique angle, and managed to come up with these additional past threads with ideas for Modern History for younger elementary ages: General info Modern history in 4th grade? What to do with a third grader when the rest of the kiddos are on 1850-Modern cycle? If you use SOTW 4, what do you use with your younger kids? SOTW 4 alternatives? Story of the World for Youngers Movies/Documentaries Videos/DVDs/Movies for Early Modern Times - age appropriate for a 7-year-old, please Library Video Company: Schlessinger Media: History videos -- check for these at your library Books (Fiction/Non-Fiction) SOTW 4 - best literature picks A Book in Time -- chronological list of books to go with history periods; by general age ranges Home's Cool: Sonlight Books in WTM Order -- check out the list of titles in the Grammar stage for Modern Edited September 5, 2017 by Lori D. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
benzino Posted September 5, 2017 Author Share Posted September 5, 2017 I'm on it thanks for the help 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted September 6, 2017 Share Posted September 6, 2017 For the record I delayed the modern era for my sensitive don and do not regret it I appreciated the preceding post that addressed the goodness of this era. I mysel am alive because if the goodness of this era. Delaying teaching about evil and darkness for Rhys she group is appropriate. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjand6more Posted September 6, 2017 Share Posted September 6, 2017 (edited) I have a 1st grader, 4th grader, 7th grader doing modern history this year. We are not going to skip over the harshness of modern history. DH is a WWII enthusiast . They have been hearing about that since birth. :) We will have some deep discussions. But, when we get to 1900, we will study a decade a week. We will study the inventions, science progress, music, fashion trends, fads, toys, etc. It will be fun. I will use these websites: http://www.thepeoplehistory.com/index.html and http://www.vintageadbrowser.com/ And this book: https://www.amazon.com/Century-Food-Americas-Fads-Favorites/dp/B0003P4XWI Edited September 6, 2017 by rjand6more 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
73349 Posted September 6, 2017 Share Posted September 6, 2017 We're going to go use SOTW but add inventions, family history, etc. (Fortunately, my great-grandmother wrote about her everyday life in the early 20th century, and my grandmother gave me a copy.) Here are some timeline cards. On the version for us, I made ones for when DH and I got married, when our house was built, when DS was born, etc. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
benzino Posted September 7, 2017 Author Share Posted September 7, 2017 It's amazing to me how spotty MY modern history is. I'm reading my public schooled 8 th grader SOTW and I'm learning things for the first time, getting the seeds of some of our current conflicts and issues. So glad that SWB wrote these books. Thanks again for the help with the time lines and links. Getting a handle on this year 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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