Middle School History/Geography

[workingmom]

We finished the Story of the World Series last couple years and now in 8th grade. But dd didn't really remember too in-depth the history. So wanting to use this year to review History and Geography. Any suggestions?

[EKS]

K12's Human Odyssey series is excellent.  It's three volumes, but you could easily do it in a year.  In fact, I'm pretty sure I did exactly that when my older son was in 7th grade.

[workingmom]

Thanks Kai for the Rec. Anyone have recs for online synchronous classes. DD enjoys more interaction. 

[Clemsondana]

No suggestions for classes, but the Critical Thinking Company's World History Detective is a workbook that does a surprisingly good job.  We use it over 3 years along with other resources, so that we do the ancient history pages the year that we do ancient history, etc.  But, if you wanted to do a review all in one year it might be a good fit.  

[ScoutTN]

On 8/15/2022 at 8:32 AM, EKS said:

K12's Human Odyssey series is excellent.  It's three volumes, but you could easily do it in a year.  In fact, I'm pretty sure I did exactly that when my older son was in 7th grade.

This! We really enjoyed the K12 Human Odyssey. A step up from SOTW, inexpensive hardbacks on Amazon, visually appealing.

[Green Bean]

On 8/15/2022 at 9:41 AM, workingmom said:

Thanks Kai for the Rec. Anyone have recs for online synchronous classes. DD enjoys more interaction. 

Yes, sign her up for the teacher-led class on k12. Look at Keystone School, too.

[workingmom]

ok so interestingly K12 (now Stride) does offer a teacher led world history using the Human Odyssey series. Just finding out how the timings work? I don't see the class timings online, so hesitant to sign up if it doesn't work with her other class timings.