- ISBN13: 9780972860352
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description
This comprehensive activity book/curriculum guide contains all you need to make modern history come alive for your child! Don’t just read about history—experience it! Designed to turn The Story of the World, Volume 4 into a complete history program, this activity book provides comprehension questions and answers, sample narrations, maps and geography activities, coloring pages, lists of additional history and literature readings, and many hands-on learni… More >>
#1 by Jackie Ford on January 27, 2010 - 12:32 pm
While the books are very good, these activity books are written/developed for a much younger crowd. Fine if you are using them for elementary students in a home school environment. Not very challenging or invigorating for a child that can read the book by themselves.
Rating: 2 / 5
#2 by Sandy N. on January 27, 2010 - 3:11 pm
To everyone who is whining that this book is not geared for younger children: IT’S NOT SUPPOSED TO BE FOR YOUNGER KIDS! Ms. Bauer clearly spells out her philosophy that history should be taught in the order that events occur. This book offers lots of literature suggestions for the slightly older student as well as the opportunity to begin practicing outlining as a study technique. As with all the previous activity guides this includes guided response questions for comprehension assessment. For those who want a “unit studies” approach that they can use for multiple grade levels at once, please look elswewhere. This subject matter does not work well with that approach.
Rating: 5 / 5
#3 by L. Brazell on January 27, 2010 - 4:12 pm
I didn’t think I’d be as happy with this book as I was with Vols. 2&3, but even though the reading lists aren’t as extensive, I’m thrilled with the timeline cards & PRONUNCIATION GUIDE! If they were in the other volumes, I missed them. It’s such a great idea to have the pronunciation guide when you read aloud! My DD9 will learn how to relate historical events so much better using the timeline cards as well. Can’t WAIT to get going!
Rating: 5 / 5
#4 by Terri J. Rice on January 27, 2010 - 4:58 pm
OK the students are older so they need a little more writing, but that is all this work book is! Boring. I can make outlines to be written from, which is what you get in this hefty book… and maps- lots of maps. The creative factor is what I want in the work book; it’s what I pay for and it isn’t there in this one.
It is the fourth in Bauer’s history series and I think she ran out of steam. It’s too bad; her earlier work books are creative. My kids with the previous work books said, “Yay! History!” Now they say, “Is it another outline?” You could save the money and just make your students outline the entire history book.
Rating: 1 / 5
#5 by apoem on January 27, 2010 - 6:39 pm
This book has been very helpful in planning a history curriculum. Other reviewers are correct the ditto portion you can copy is mainly maps. It is also a bit weaker than the other books in this group. However, despite those two complaints, this is a very useful book when planning curriculum for a homeschool student. There are discussion topics, craft ideas and more.
Rating: 4 / 5