A Child's History of the World CD as review?

[TMarie]

Finishing our second round through the Ancients, I've been disappointed at the small amount of info my kids retained. Granted, they were very young the first time through the ancients. ;)

 

I've got this idea...

 

I'm wondering if the kids could use the Calvert CD-ROM "A Child's History of the World" as a sort of review while we continue on through history. Has anyone used this CD? Would young dialectic kids find interesting and enjoyable?

[Hoggirl]

everyone on the board who replied said there was NOT an audio CD of CHOW. I agree with you...I think it would be GREAT to have such a tool. :iagree: Great minds think alike? But I fear we are out of luck.

[TracyR]

We haven't used the CD -Rom so I'm not sure what's in it . But how young are we talking about ? I really don't recommend using CHOW until at least 3rd grade. Minimum . I think its a wonderful book for children in grades 3/4/5 . But to go any lower in means nothing to small ones .

 

But if you want to continue this is what we are doing with CHOW and it seems to really solidify the facts for my oldest ( who is 10 by the way ) . I bought some really great books to add more to it , and to set those facts in . Barnes and Nobles carries two really great reference books that go lovely with CHOW . They actually were an accidental find for me . But they go REALLY well with studying the ancients . The names of the books are

" 100 things you should know about " books . We have one on Ancient Rome . And the other one we have so far is called " Discoveries Ancient Greece " . They are both beautifully illustrated and great for elementary aged children ( even grown ups too :>) They are VERY inexpensive . They are big books at I paid 5.95 for " 100 things " and 6.95 for "Discoveries " . So they don't break your pocket. They have other books on Rome , Egypt , Pyramids , Gladiators etc . If you go to my blog( link in signature ) you can see a small review of the first book I mentioned .

Then I went to www.notebookingpages.com where they have free notebooking pages. And we wrote and drew pictures , whatever was needed to remember the content .

You don't even have to buy the other books. You could just do CHOW and notebook to help with the facts too . They have free basic notebook pages, timelines etc that you can copy .

Hope some of those ideas help .

The one thing I know is that CHOW is really best for children who are in at least 4th grade, minimum 3rd . To really appreciate the book :>) I know both my husband who is a history buff , and I have enjoyed it and have learned a great deal and world history this year .