Trivium Academy Posted April 20, 2008 Share Posted April 20, 2008 I have discovered that we LOVE this and I just finished planning out Unit 4 of TOG2 with very little paper crafts after the American Revolution (week 33), while I don't have a problem with not having a paper craft for weeks 34-36, I would love to know what you have used or will use. Actually it worked out fine that we don't have paper crafts for those weeks because I have a few U.S. Constitution items that I want to explore. I may be missing something but all the paper crafts books that I've looked at cover: American Indians, Colonial America, American Revolution, and then they jump to Pioneers, Westward Expansion and Civil War. I haven't found anything (yet) to cover the time period that is addressed for Unit 1 of Year 3 Week Unit 1: Napoleon's World 1 John Adams’s World 2 Napoleon: The Man and His Career 3 Early Industrial Revolution in England and America 4 President Jefferson and Lewis and Clark 5 President Jefferson and the Development of the Supreme Court 6 James Madison’s Presidency and the War of 1812 7 Independence Movements of South America & the Congress of Vienna 8 Simon Bolivar and South America 9 President Monroe and the Monroe Doctrine I've just found my groove w/ TOG and we love it. Dd7 (to be 8) loves the paper projects (creating something, ability to draw, color and the satisfaction of seeing something tangible), I love the paper projects b/c there are no supplies and if ds4 messes anything up, I can quickly photocopy whatever it is that he destroyed without the whole project being ruined. There has to be some huge book of paper crafts for U.S. history that includes all topics and I just haven't found the right title. I have seen Super Social Studies! (Grades 4-8) (Paperback) by Elizabeth Van Tine and this *might* be the solution but the inside views don't show the examples on the front cover which are what we like. Unless I find something that covers it in an all-in-one resource, I do plan on using Hands-on History: Pioneers (Hands-On History) by Michael Gravois but that won't be until Unit 2 of Year 3. I feel like I've hit a goldmine of creative juices that accomplishes so many disciplines: project preparation, LA integration, etc. and I don't want to lose this element just because I can't find a resource. For the presidents, I've taken the clip art from Homeschool in the Woods timeline figures and created a biography page. What I learned about (George Washington): Picture _______________________________ of ___________________________________ George _______________________________ Washington ____________________________ ______________________________________ This will get boring though. Please share your resources if you have any. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tarheel Heather Posted April 20, 2008 Share Posted April 20, 2008 I have discovered that we LOVE this and I just finished planning out Unit 4 of TOG2 with very little paper crafts after the American Revolution (week 33), while I don't have a problem with not having a paper craft for weeks 34-36, I would love to know what you have used or will use. Actually it worked out fine that we don't have paper crafts for those weeks because I have a few U.S. Constitution items that I want to explore. I may be missing something but all the paper crafts books that I've looked at cover: American Indians, Colonial America, American Revolution, and then they jump to Pioneers, Westward Expansion and Civil War. I haven't found anything (yet) to cover the time period that is addressed for Unit 1 of Year 3 Week Unit 1: Napoleon's World 1 John Adams’s World 2 Napoleon: The Man and His Career 3 Early Industrial Revolution in England and America 4 President Jefferson and Lewis and Clark 5 President Jefferson and the Development of the Supreme Court 6 James Madison’s Presidency and the War of 1812 7 Independence Movements of South America & the Congress of Vienna 8 Simon Bolivar and South America 9 President Monroe and the Monroe Doctrine I've just found my groove w/ TOG and we love it. Dd7 (to be 8) loves the paper projects (creating something, ability to draw, color and the satisfaction of seeing something tangible), I love the paper projects b/c there are no supplies and if ds4 messes anything up, I can quickly photocopy whatever it is that he destroyed without the whole project being ruined. There has to be some huge book of paper crafts for U.S. history that includes all topics and I just haven't found the right title. I have seen Super Social Studies! (Grades 4-8) (Paperback) by Elizabeth Van Tine and this *might* be the solution but the inside views don't show the examples on the front cover which are what we like. Unless I find something that covers it in an all-in-one resource, I do plan on using Hands-on History: Pioneers (Hands-On History) by Michael Gravois but that won't be until Unit 2 of Year 3. I feel like I've hit a goldmine of creative juices that accomplishes so many disciplines: project preparation, LA integration, etc. and I don't want to lose this element just because I can't find a resource. For the presidents, I've taken the clip art from Homeschool in the Woods timeline figures and created a biography page. What I learned about (George Washington): Picture _______________________________ of ___________________________________ George _______________________________ Washington ____________________________ ______________________________________ This will get boring though. Please share your resources if you have any. What about History Pockets for Lewis and Clark, have you looked at this site, it has several resources. http://www.abookintime.com/projects.html If you do find one all inclusive resource let me know! :001_smile: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trivium Academy Posted April 20, 2008 Author Share Posted April 20, 2008 History Pockets North America Explorers contains Lewis & Clark and Henry Hudson but it starts with Christopher Columbus. Just in case anyone else has been looking for items like this. Thanks Heather! ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michelle My Bell Posted April 20, 2008 Share Posted April 20, 2008 Jessica, I will explore this further to give some input, but I was wondering if you could post your Yr. 2, Unit 4 project plans. This is where we currently are. Just as a side note, we have used Homeschool In the Woods Colonial Life CD's to make several paper projects to add to projects listed in TOG. One of them is the Colonial Fashions project. We used the transparency overlays and it was fantastic! I plan to get their most current one for next year. Michelle Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trivium Academy Posted April 20, 2008 Author Share Posted April 20, 2008 The Homeschool in the Woods products look great but I worried they would take too long and not be a good investment in the long run. IR= Independent Read, RA= Read Aloud (these don't necessarily have to be done during our history time) Week 28 Sea Clocks Benjamin Franklin (D'Aulaire) Hasty Pudding Ch. 1 IR- Gulliver's Travels RA- Ben & Me (2 ch./day) Activities: Benjamin Franklin Experiments Make bread from Hasty B.Franklin bio page Gulliver SAP Week 29 George Washington (D'Aulaire) Liberty! Hasty Pudding Ch. 2 IR- George Washington Soldier (Level 3, DK Reader) RA- Ben & Me (2 ch./day) or Matchlock Gun Activities: Benjamin Franklin Experiments French and Indian War Lockbook from American Revolution (M. Gravois) Define Matchlock vocab (SAP) Mapwork talk about Proclamation of 1763 Week 30 Boston Tea Party Liberty! Liberty or Death (Maestro) Hasty Pudding Ch. 3 IR- Picture Book of Patrick Henry RA- Matchlock Gun Activities: Benjamin Franklin Experiments Kings & Queens (J. Green), pg. 26 Boston Tea Party Step Book from American Revolution (M. Gravois) Amazing Grace lyrics Patrick Henry bio page Mapwork Week 31 The 4th of July Story Liberty! Liberty or Death (Maestro) Hasty Pudding Ch. 4 IR- Paul Revere's Ride RA- finish Matchlock Gun or start Carry On Mr. Bowditch Activities: Benjamin Franklin Experiments Paul Revere Mini-Book from American Revolution (M. Gravois) Paul Revere bio page Mapwork Week 32 G.Washington (D'Aulaire) Liberty or Death (Maestro) Hasty Pudding Ch. 5 IR- Aaron and Green Mt. Boys, 18 Penny Goose RA- Carry On Mr. Bowditch Activities: Benjamin Franklin Experiments Circlebook of Important Events from American Revolution (M. Gravois) G.Washington bio page Mapwork Week 33 A More Perfect Union Hasty Pudding Ch. 6 Amazing Air Balloon Daniel Boone by K. Brandt IR- Daniel Boone Coloring book RA- Carry On Mr. Bowditch Activities: Benjamin Franklin Experiments Daniel Boone coloring page D. Boone bio page SAP Week 34 A More Perfect Union Hasty Pudding Ch. 7 Flower Hunter Our Country's Presidents IR- Meet George Washington RA- Carry On Mr. Bowditch Activities: Benjamin Franklin Experiments Flower Hunter SAP Make a wig Week 35 A More Perfect Union Hasty Pudding Ch. 8 G. Washington (D'Aulaire) Paris 1789 Our Country's Presidents IR- Meet George Washington RA- Carry On Mr. Bowditch Activities: Benjamin Franklin Experiments G. Washington bio page Mapwork Week 36 Hasty Pudding Ch. 9 Dear Benjamin Banneker Our Country's Presidents RA- Carry On Mr. Bowditch Activities: Benjamin Franklin Experiments Banneker SAP Mapwork J. Adams bio page *The first thing to be dropped will be the Benjamin Franklin experiments, but I do love the book so if nothing else I want to attempt to read it each week. Added: We may pull more activities out of American Revolution by Gravois, I went back and looked at it again and there are a few things I haven't pre-read to determine if we'll cover at this level, like the Boston Massacre and how much detail we'll talk about the taxes in the colonies outside of the Boston Tea Party. There are other items in the book we could use, I decided to photocopy the other projects so that they are ready to go if we do decide to use them. Every week we'll have mapwork but only notated where we have a map to work on rather than using an atlas. The bio pages are what I created and will be the narration for those weeks where it is scheduled. G.W. is scheduled more than once b/c we go through different stages of his life. I hope that at the end of the unit, I can show dd where she created her own biography of G.W. We also have a DVD of an reenactment from www.nccs.net for studying the Constitution. A More Perfect Union - America Becomes a Nation (2-hour motion picture) is the first comprehensive recreation of those stirring, heated debates during the sweltering summer of 1787. Filmed on location at Independence Hall, Williamsburg, Virginia, and other historical sites, it dramatically chronicles how America became a nation and those underlying principles that guard our freedoms today. I hope this helps, ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TundraAcademy Posted April 21, 2008 Share Posted April 21, 2008 We've just started early American history. Have you checked out the Los Banos curriculum? She has a lot of internet craft links and recommended books. We did the Time Travellers CD for Explorers. It has some excellent paper crafts. We also used Easy Make & Learn Projects - The Pilgrims, Mayflower & More, and Hands-On History Colonial America. Both are Scholastic books. Hope that helps some! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Linda in NM Posted April 21, 2008 Share Posted April 21, 2008 My son enjoyed creating display boards (those science-fair things) for various wars (War of 1812, Civil War in US, etc.) His boards included various displays--lapbooks, for example, that might ask causes and open to display them, pictures, timelines, reports on battles, biographies of generals...graphics of ships with parts identified... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michelle My Bell Posted April 22, 2008 Share Posted April 22, 2008 My son enjoyed creating display boards (those science-fair things) for various wars (War of 1812, Civil War in US, etc.) His boards included various displays--lapbooks, for example, that might ask causes and open to display them, pictures, timelines, reports on battles, biographies of generals...graphics of ships with parts identified... We do this also. We really are enjoying it a lot! Thanks Jessica, I knew you would give an excellent answer! Michelle Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trivium Academy Posted April 24, 2008 Author Share Posted April 24, 2008 Interactive 3-D Maps: American History by Donald Silver (Grades 4-8) by Scholastic http://www.amazon.com/Interactive-Maps-Easy-Assemble-Concepts/dp/0439241146 AMAZING! First People Arrive in America Vikings Discover America Columbus Lands in America Cortés and Coronado Explore America The French Explore N. America Settlements at Roanoke and Jamestown Voyage of the Mayflower Slave Ships Cross the Atlantic Piracy on the High Seas Paul Revere's Ride Washington Crosses the Delaware Lewis and Clark Explore the West A Ride Along the Erie Canal The Trail of Tears The Way West Up and Down the Mississippi The Underground Railroad Messages Move from Coast to Coast (Pony Express) Civil War on the Sea The Transcontinental Railroad The Western Cattle Trails Immigrants Flock to America Building the Panama Canal On the Road for Civil Rights From the Earth to the Moon (includes a map of the Moon with labels) Informative, for example I wanted a map activity that showed where Paul Revere rode but this has even more, Who was Paul Revere? Who was Paul Revere trying to save on the night of April 18, 1775, and why? What was Paul Revere waiting for in the rowboat? What happened when Revere reached Charlestown? What happened to prevent P. Revere from reaching Concord? Who alered the people of Concord? The maps are interactive, meaning there is little flip up that show more information about the event, and there are movable pieces, like the Mayflower being able to slide from Plymouth, England to Cape Cod. I'm such a nerd but I love this! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walkermamaof4 Posted April 24, 2008 Share Posted April 24, 2008 Ugh. I am new here. And I would almost rather not tell you this -- but we have never done any crafts, lap books, anything (hiding under my shirt tails as I type this!). We are doing SL core 3, early American. Can you tell me what would be the very best of the best resources to get me started on this as easily as possible? My 3 would love this! (11 dd, 8 dd, 5 ds) I looked at the link above and it shows history pockets and bunches of reproducibles by Donald Silver. Would any of those be worthwhile to get me started quickly on some fun to go along with our great reading? Thanks!!! I just started reading the WTM boards last week and have learned SO much already! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baseballmom Posted April 24, 2008 Share Posted April 24, 2008 Ugh. I am new here. And I would almost rather not tell you this -- but we have never done any crafts, lap books, anything (hiding under my shirt tails as I type this!). We are doing SL core 3, early American. Can you tell me what would be the very best of the best resources to get me started on this as easily as possible? My 3 would love this! (11 dd, 8 dd, 5 ds) I looked at the link above and it shows history pockets and bunches of reproducibles by Donald Silver. Would any of those be worthwhile to get me started quickly on some fun to go along with our great reading? Thanks!!! I just started reading the WTM boards last week and have learned SO much already! Have you looked into Homeschool in the Woods' Time Travellers Series. They have a "New World Explorers" and "Colonial Life" cd. I am using "The American Revolution" cd and it is great. The projects are easy, and beautiful. My kids loved the tax game, and the money we printed from the cd for the game was gorgeous and will be put in our coursebook. I believe these are worth the $$. Dorothy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walkermamaof4 Posted April 24, 2008 Share Posted April 24, 2008 thanks Dorothy! That looks perfect. I ordered them. That should spice up our days! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hsmom Posted April 24, 2008 Share Posted April 24, 2008 Jessica, I have the 3-D maps book it looks awesome we haven't started it yet, but we will be soon. Also there is: http://www.amazon.com/15-Primary-Source-Activities-American/dp/0439251842/ref=sr_11_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1209056413&sr=11-1 http://www.amazon.com/Pop-Up-Reports-American-History-Grades/dp/0590581015/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1209056520&sr=1-1 http://www.amazon.com/Hands-History-American-Activities/dp/1425803709/ref=pd_bbs_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1209056629&sr=1-3 Also there is the hands on history by scholastic. There is a lot of them here is the scholastic link, but amazon had a lot of them. http://www2.scholastic.com/browse/search/?Ne=770&query=hands+on+histoy&Ntt=hands+on+histoy&Ntk=SCHL30_SI&Ntx=mode+matchallpartial&N=2476&T=P I hope these help. We love to add all the hands on we can get with all of our subjects. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sugarfoot Posted April 24, 2008 Share Posted April 24, 2008 the 3-D Interactive Maps for American history! So much fun, not overwhelming, easy "supplies.":) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asher Posted April 24, 2008 Share Posted April 24, 2008 We've just started early American history. Have you checked out the Los Banos curriculum? She has a lot of internet craft links and recommended books. We did the Time Travellers CD for Explorers. It has some excellent paper crafts. We also used Easy Make & Learn Projects - The Pilgrims, Mayflower & More, and Hands-On History Colonial America. Both are Scholastic books. Hope that helps some! We use Los Banos & it's great. She does have lots of great ideas. The history pockets are awesome, too. I love Evan Moor products! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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