History Quest: Early Times Study Guide

Description

History Quest: Early Times Study Guide  contains everything you need for a full year’s history curriculum for elementary-age children. Each weekly unit takes a chapter of  History Quest: Early Times, the narrative history series, and turns it into a robust unit study with a week’s worth of engaging activities. Your student will gain a broad and deep understanding of early civilizations through readings, geography activities, discussions, writing assignments, coloring pages, crafts, and more. Also included throughout the curriculum are four weeks of warm and cozy ancient literature study, where parents and students snuggle up together to enjoy time-honored tales from four ancient civilizations across the world. The  History Quest: Early Times Study Guide  is your child’s first step in a lifelong quest to explore and appreciate history. From Paleolithic times to the Islamic Empire, the  Study Guide  to  History Quest: Early Times  is a complete one-year curriculum guide that combines history with activities, world geography, great books, and writing. Young students  study events and people from early civilization including ancient Egypt, Babylon, Assyria, Mesoamerica,  Persia, Greece, India, Rome, Kush and Aksum, China, and Arabia. This comprehensive curriculum combines history studies with geography, literature, hands-on activities, and writing.

History Quest: Early Times Study Guide  is a teacher/parent guide that provides step by step lessons to teach world history from Pre-history to the 8th century CE.

This study guide includes:

• 31 weekly units with lessons for:
  • History reading assignments from  History Quest: Early Times  and history encyclopedia
  • History Travel Log entries (timeline/geography activity)
  • Terms & Concepts (learning goals)
  • Map work
  • Comprehension/Writing/Dictation/Copywork
  • Crafts/Cooking/Artwork hands-on activities
• 13 ancient history blackline maps
• Hands-on activity instructions
• Literature and weblink enrichment recommendations
• Unit schedules and supply lists
• Student coloring and activity pages

Learning techniques  are woven throughout  History Quest Study Guides  at age-appropriate levels. Students examine multiple resources, read historically significant literature, develop and strengthen critical thinking skills, practice and refine written and verbal expression, and study world geography and geographical significances throughout the history of humankind.

Product Description

Grade level:  1st through 4th

Pages:  270

Course type: Study guide (Please see the Booklist for the books required to complete this course.)

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Discover

Discover  the story of human history from Paleolithic times through about 700 CE. Read the  History Quest  chapter and associated history encyclopedia reading. Map the location and geography of ancient civilizations.

Explore

Explore  ancient civilizations through imaginary time travel journeys with a History Hop reading found in  History Quest.  Create a History Travel Log page to mark and remember the journey.

Create

Create  crafts, projects, and tasty food that reinforce connection to the past. Make a Paleolithic painting, cook a meal Ashoka would have loved, classify like Aristotle, create an eggshell Byzantine mosaic, make a Roman clock, and much more!

Demonstrate

Demonstrate  new knowledge and understanding through writing, discussion, copywork, and/or dictation.

Enrich

Enrich  understanding through exposure to multiple sources including books, online games, and videos.

History Quest: Early Times Study Guide partners with History Quest: Early Times and together they contain everything you need for a full year’s history curriculum for elementary-age children.