llindseymomoffour Posted April 19, 2013 Share Posted April 19, 2013 I plan on using the Complete Book of US History along with the Complete Book of Presidents & States, and the Complete book of Maps & Geography next year for grades 5, 4, 2, and Pre-K. Does anyone know of extra resources or curriculum that someone has put together using these books? I have found some various resources for US history in general, but was wondering if anyone had already put together resources before I start digging in. Thanks for the help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wheres Toto Posted April 19, 2013 Share Posted April 19, 2013 I am using The Complete Book of US History right now. We haven't gotten very far because I wanted to cover Native Americans in a lot more detail than it did. Along with the book my plans include: Evan Moor History Pockets (Native Americans, Explorers, Colonies, Plymouth Colony, American Revolution, Moving West, Civil War), a bunch of Scholastic books (from Dollar Days sales) that have projects and craft ideas, Discovery Streaming for videos, playinghistory.org for online games, Library of Congress for kids website, BBC for Vikings and Columbus, and bunch of DK Eyewitness books, living books, picture books, and a variety of other things I found on Pinterest. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ByGrace3 Posted April 19, 2013 Share Posted April 19, 2013 I am using it to put together my us history studies next year. I am not done though. I will put it up on my blog when I finish. I am using all the Sonlight readers and read alouds along with Truthquest and the A journey though learning notebooking, builder binder, coloring pages, maps, and timeline. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RootAnn Posted April 19, 2013 Share Posted April 19, 2013 I lined up some readers & such when we used The Complete Book of US History for my 3rd & 5th graders last year. Link is in my signature. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
llindseymomoffour Posted April 19, 2013 Author Share Posted April 19, 2013 Thank you everyone for the replies. We are going through the prairie primer right now, so I guess I was looking for something laid out like that to combine the three books into a weekly layout somehow. I do have a ton of readers I will be using and videos. I love history and I have probably gone overboard with all the books I have. I am struggling with how to fit everything in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ondreeuh Posted April 20, 2013 Share Posted April 20, 2013 Pm my your email and I will send you my schedule for the US Hstory book. I use the Maestro books, an encyclopedia, Scholastic books and lots of other books. It's way more than I can do, but the Complete History book is a fantastic spine and can stand alone. It has taken us 2 years to work through the History book, so you might need to adjust your expectations. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wheres Toto Posted April 20, 2013 Share Posted April 20, 2013 We're just going with the flow too. We've been doing US History for a few months and we're still on Native Americans, so I can certainly see it taking a while, LOL. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ByGrace3 Posted April 21, 2013 Share Posted April 21, 2013 I haven't even uploaded it to my blog yet, but I did get our overview for the year done. I have picture books, readers, and read alouds lined up with The Complete Book of US History broken down in 36 weeks. I have most of the SL readers and read alouds from Core D, plus the Maestro books, D'Aulaire biographies, a few others, and some American Girl books. I am in the middle of planning them in a SL style template. I am about 1/3 of the way through and should be done within the next few weeks. ETA: I plan to cover it in two years, so this is US History to 1860. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aurelia Posted April 21, 2013 Share Posted April 21, 2013 We did up through WWII in a year, using a lot of suggestions from Guesthollow plus several extra books on Native Americans because I wanted to do a fairly in-depth unit on them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wheres Toto Posted April 21, 2013 Share Posted April 21, 2013 I have all my plans in One Note. A separate tab for each topic and then blocks for the books I own, books I want to borrow from the library, links to any files on my computer, links to websites for activities or videos, and activity ideas. I just started doing this so I don't have Native Americans, and of course it's very specific to the books and files I own. I did this so I wouldn't forget to use what I have. When we get to a new unit, I'm going to see if there is a way to save a particular page as a pdf and I'll post it on my blog. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Murrayshire Posted April 22, 2013 Share Posted April 22, 2013 I haven't even uploaded it to my blog yet, but I did get our overview for the year done. I have picture books, readers, and read alouds lined up with The Complete Book of US History broken down in 36 weeks. I have most of the SL readers and read alouds from Core D, plus the Maestro books, D'Aulaire biographies, a few others, and some American Girl books. I am in the middle of planning them in a SL style template. I am about 1/3 of the way through and should be done within the next few weeks. ETA: I plan to cover it in two years, so this is US History to 1860. Could you let us know when you have completed? We are working through this as well using about the same selections of readers. It is so nice to see your schedule layed out though and you have done the work for me. I usually schedule history each week so you have saved me a lot of time! Thank you so much! On our blog I created a page for free schedules/resources/printables that I will post when I get more in there. I hope you don't mind that I have included your blog and schedule to it?! Please let me know if that is a problem! Thanks again for your schedule and hard work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Murrayshire Posted April 22, 2013 Share Posted April 22, 2013 I lined up some readers & such when we used The Complete Book of US History for my 3rd & 5th graders last year. Link is in my signature. I wanted to thank you as well for your schedule! Like I said above in my reply to Grace3, I have been making a list of great free schedules and blogs with free resources....I have such a long list and I need to compile them in one spot. I hope you don't mind that I have added your blog to my list! Please let me know if so.......I'm still working on it...and it may take awhile. When I'm finished, I'll post it to see if anyone as more for me to list! Thanks again for sharing! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ByGrace3 Posted April 22, 2013 Share Posted April 22, 2013 Could you let us know when you have completed? We are working through this as well using about the same selections of readers. It is so nice to see your schedule layed out though and you have done the work for me. I usually schedule history each week so you have saved me a lot of time! Thank you so much! On our blog I created a page for free schedules/resources/printables that I will post when I get more in there. I hope you don't mind that I have included your blog and schedule to it?! Please let me know if that is a problem! Thanks again for your schedule and hard work. Not a problem at all. I will certainly update when I have it all completed. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TraceyS/FL Posted April 22, 2013 Share Posted April 22, 2013 I have this book sitting here, but I don't think we will get to it until a year from now (which gives me time to plan and buy more books!!!). I appreciate all the schedules and stuff!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LynnG in Arizona Posted April 23, 2013 Share Posted April 23, 2013 I haven't even uploaded it to my blog yet, but I did get our overview for the year done. I have picture books, readers, and read alouds lined up with The Complete Book of US History broken down in 36 weeks. I have most of the SL readers and read alouds from Core D, plus the Maestro books, D'Aulaire biographies, a few others, and some American Girl books. I am in the middle of planning them in a SL style template. I am about 1/3 of the way through and should be done within the next few weeks. ETA: I plan to cover it in two years, so this is US History to 1860. I just wanted to chime in and say thank you as well! We too are planning on doing roughly the same thing, and already have most of the same readers. Your plan looks great, and I also would be most grateful if you share future revisions. Thanks so much!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walking-Iris Posted April 23, 2013 Share Posted April 23, 2013 I plan on using those books next year. The US and the Presidents. I wasn't aware there was a maps and geography, but I'm pretty happy with using A Trip Around the World. This thread comes at a very great time, since I have been planning on how to cover this. I have OM4 and there's some great activities in that for Native American studies and i got soem Indian Legends from OM as well, so we'll spend some time with that. To include my 1st grader I plan on reading a bit from Sea to Shining Sea. I'm also planning on the If You Lived serie sof books as well as Jean Fritz. For the Presidents I laminated the cards and will read a getting To Know the Presidents bio. I also want to use soem History Pockets and some Dover coloring and model books. Also just lots of read alouds and Netflix docs. I have History Odyssey timelines and we'll use them to plug in events as we read. I'm still searching for a great used set of 3rd edition Hakim history. Definitely keeping my eye on this thread. My goal was to give a good overview and be able to go deeper in later middle school. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ByGrace3 Posted April 24, 2013 Share Posted April 24, 2013 Just an FYI (in case anyone wanted non workbook geography ideas) for geography of the US, we plan to use: Sequence States and Capitals http://www.rainbowresource.com/product/sku/015754/875c2e5c134e4aa1386a1d17 Scrambled States of America https://www.rainbowresource.com/product/Scrambled+States+of+America+Game+Deluxe+Edition/052129/875c2e5c134e4aa1386a1d17 USA floor puzzle https://www.rainbowresource.com/product/USA+Map+Floor+Puzzle/017063/875c2e5c134e4aa1386a1d17 10 days in the USA http://www.rainbowresource.com/product/sku/027208/875c2e5c134e4aa1386a1d17 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ByGrace3 Posted April 24, 2013 Share Posted April 24, 2013 My kids like these workbooks and things like it.. or we wouldn't be using them (they also like The Complete Book of Science). There are some really great things out there for geography that aren't workbooks. We use some of them.. we have the Milton Bradly floor maps of the USA and world, we have board games (Where in the USA is Carmen Sandiego, Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego, Game of the States (vintage and way cool), National Geographic on Assignment). There are also great things out there that I have and my kids (or I) just don't seem to care for... Trail Guide to World Geography, Galloping the Globe, etc. The Complete Book of Maps and Geography covers lots of things like how to read all kinds of maps, it teaches latitude and longetude, it teaches how to pull information from different maps. It's also not just US geography. It does not cover culture and such.. it's mostly just maps and basic locational geography. Wasn't trying to put down workbooks at all...just wanted to offer a few games we had found for those who might find that helpful or was looking for something different. :) The complete book of maps and geography sounds interesting, I will be sure to check it out. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walking-Iris Posted April 24, 2013 Share Posted April 24, 2013 One thing that I have always done to teach geography was to read the folktales of the place. I also teach Canada, Mexico and Central and South American geography along with US geography. We'll be using the Presidents and States book to go a bit deeper into some state history and facts. I plan on just doing a state at a time at a natural pace. My ds already knows his states, but we've slacked on capitals and other historical facts. One way to combine US geography with the beginning US history lessons on Native Americans and Mayan, Aztecs, Incas is to read some folktales from the Native cultures and to read US folktales and tall tales throughout the year. We've already done some Native studies but I want to go deeper with a project in the life of the Native Americans from our area. So I want to do more research and projects into the woodlands and southeastern tribes. It's fun to take a blank US map and to label it by region (eastern,woodlands,southeast,plains,southwest,california,pacific northwest,alaska, and so on) and to fill in as many tribe names as you can find. It also gives kids a sense of how our country is laid out. That and reading as many folktales as possible gives kids a sense of how rich and varied culture was in this country before European arrival. Learning the meaning of state names that have Native origins is good too. One thing I did with my ds when he was young and I really ought to do again is to make a large US shaped chocolate cookie--then use frosting and candies to place natural landmarks (lakes, rivers, mountains) We've already spent this year collecting state quarters and researching informally why certain symbols were selected. We have a few of the native American quarters as well as some of the gold colored President quarters. They're a bit harder to collect. But it's another way to add on to these books. For that early historical fiction we're going to read Secret of the Andes and Julie of the Wolves and possibly Encounter. I don't plan on doing much with the Presidents except completing the activity page and reading bios as they come up in US history and doing some civics/government. It would be nice if my ds could have them memorized by the end of the year and recognize their picture. But I'm not going to press it too hard. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ByGrace3 Posted May 13, 2013 Share Posted May 13, 2013 I promised I would update here when I finished. Here you go! Schedule, notebooking pages, and coloring/activity pages. Also games and supplementary activities and hands on projects for each unit. :) http://onemagnificentobsession.blogspot.com/2013/05/us-history-for-grammar-stage.html?m=0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
momma aimee Posted May 13, 2013 Share Posted May 13, 2013 I wanted to add -- we are looking at a general over view of America History in the fall too and I am planning to pull supplemental history reading off this list (I won't buy the packard, too $$ but i will find the books, buy some, resquest other ILL) -- http://bfbooks.com/Early-American-History-Primary-Jumbo-Pack Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teeniebeenie6 Posted May 13, 2013 Share Posted May 13, 2013 I promised I would update here when I finished. Here you go! Schedule, notebooking pages, and coloring/activity pages. Also games and supplementary activities and hands on projects for each unit. :) http://onemagnificen...-stage.html?m=0 This is amazing! Thanks so much for your kindness!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
susankhan Posted May 13, 2013 Share Posted May 13, 2013 I promised I would update here when I finished. Here you go! Schedule, notebooking pages, and coloring/activity pages. Also games and supplementary activities and hands on projects for each unit. :) http://onemagnificen...-stage.html?m=0 Thank you so much !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Susan Khan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alisoncooks Posted May 14, 2013 Share Posted May 14, 2013 I promised I would update here when I finished. Here you go! Schedule, notebooking pages, and coloring/activity pages. Also games and supplementary activities and hands on projects for each unit. :) http://onemagnificen...-stage.html?m=0 This is really fabulous! Thank you for sharing your hard work! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chiguirre Posted May 14, 2013 Share Posted May 14, 2013 Thank you! I was planning to attempt this with Geezle next year and I LOVE your schedule. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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