History – Preparation Education

Story of the World vol. 2 and History Through the Ages

January 2, 2018May 12, 2022prayingmother

I have already shared that we love Story of the World history books and History Through the Ages timelines by Homeschool in the Woods. (See post about Story of the World, vol. 1) I am working my way through compiling lists of what timeline pieces correspond with which chapters from Story of the World.

Here is the list for volume 2. If you have suggestions to update, please let me know.

Note: The ones that are in italics are not in the History Through the Ages set. I have managed to find some of these online, and had to skip some. MOH 3 Additional Figures Set is an add-on set that goes with Mystery of History, volume 3 that can be purchased for $2.95 and downloaded from Homeschool in the Woods. (Scroll to almost the bottom of the page, if you follow my link.) World Geography Timeline Figures are timeline figures by Amy Pak that are sold by Heart of Dakota.

HTTA Timeline Figures for SOTW Vol. 2

Introduction

[None]

Chapter 1

Fall of Roman Empire
Diocletian
Middle Ages

Chapter 2

Epic of Beowulf

Chapter 3

Dark Ages
Augustine

Chapter 4

Justinian I
Theodora
Byzantine Empire
East-West Schism
Nicholas

Chapter 5

Golden Age of India
Ajanta Caves
Skandagupta
Chandragupta I

Chapter 6

Mohammed
The Hegira

Chapter 7

Abu Bakr

Chapter 8

Sui Dynasty
T’ang Dynasty
Grand Canal

Chapter 9

Yamato Dynasty

Chapter 10

The Maori
Aboriginal Australians

Chapter 11

Clovis

Chapter 12

Arab-Muslim Sweep

Chapter 13

Charles Martel
Charlemagne
Pope Leo III (not named, but is the pope mentioned in the chapter)

Chapter 14

Viking Invasions
Erik the Red
Leif Erikson

Chapter 15

Alfred the Great
Sweyn Forkbeard
Battle of Hastings
Edward I (Edward the Confessor)
Harold I
William I

Chapter 16

Feudal System
King Arthur
Medieval Castles
Old English

Chapter 17

Samurai Warriors
Knights

Chapter 18

The Crusades
Saladin
El Cid
Peter the Hermit
Urban II (not mentioned by name, but was a Pope that ordered crusades)
Pope Innocent III (not mentioned by name, but was a Pope that ordered crusades)

Chapter 19

Richard I
Optional: Eleanor of Aquitaine (Queen Mother of Richard, not mentioned)
Robin Hood
Magna Carta
King John (Lackland)

Chapter 20

Destruction of Jerusalem
Optional: Masada (not mentioned)
Optional: Bar Kokhba (not mentioned)
Jews of the Renaissance & Reformation (MOH 3 Additional Figures Set)
Yohanan ben Zakkai
Diaspora

Chapter 21

Genghis Khan
Kublai Khan
Song Dynasty (not mentioned, but overthrown by Kublai Khan)
Mongol Invasions

Chapter 22

Marco Polo
Silk Road
Ming Dynasty
Great Wall
Forbidden City

Chapter 23

Vladimir of Kiev
Ivan the Terrible
Ivan the Great (MOH 3 Additional Figures Set)
Rurik

Chapter 24

Fall of Constantinople
Suleiman I (MOH 3 Additional Figures Set)
Ottoman Empire
Mehmed the Conqueror

Chapter 25

Black Death

Chapter 26

Hundred Years War
Joan of Arc
Henry V of England
Charles VI of France
Battle of Agincourt (1415)
Henry VII of England
Dauphin/Charles V of France

Chapter 27

Wars of the Roses
Richard III
Henry VI
Princes in the Tower

Chapter 28

Ferdinand V and Isabella I
Henry the Navigator

Chapter 29

Empires of West Africa (MOH 3 Additional Figures Set)
Mansa Musa
Leo Africanus

Chapter 30

Babar
Akbar
Moghul Empire

Chapter 31

Christopher Columbus
Amerigo Vespucci
Ferdinand Magellan

Chapter 32

Maya Civilization
Tenochtitlan
Inca Civilization
Aztec Empire

Chapter 33

Montezuma II
Hernando Cortez

Chapter 34

Martin Luther
95 Theses
Henry VII
Henry VII’s wives

Chapter 35

European Renaissance
Artists of Northern Renaissance (MOH 3 Additional Figures Set)
Gutenberg

Chapter 36

Council of Trent
Reformation and Counter Reformation
Philip Melanchthon

Chapter 37

Nicolaus Copernicus
Galileo Galilei

Chapter 38

Mary I (Tudor)
Elizabeth I

Chapter 39

William Shakespeare
Macbeth

Chapter 40

Walter Raleigh
Virginia Dare
Roanoke/The Lost Colony
John White

Chapter 41

John Cabot
Jacques Cartier

Chapter 42

Francisco Vasquez de Coronado,
Philip II
Sir Francis Drake
Spanish Armada
Lord Charles Howard

I am not receiving any remuneration from either Story of the World or Homeschool in the Woods for this post or any of the links in it.

Story of the World vol. 1 and History Through the Ages

November 28, 2017January 2, 2018prayingmother

We have fallen in love with the Story of the World history books. The writing style is so engaging and it appeals to the youngest and the oldest in our home and everybody in between. It is not what my high schoolers are using for history, but they still enjoy sitting and listening while I read to the younger children.

I also love the History Through the Ages timelines by Homeschool in the Woods. And I want to use them with Story of the World. Mystery of History includes what timeline pieces correspond with the chapters, but I haven’t found a comprehensive list for Story of the World, so I am working my way through the volumes and creating my own list.

Here is the list for volume 1. If you have suggestions to update, I’d love to know them as I’m afraid I missed some.

Note: The ones that are in italics are not in the History Through the Ages set. I have managed to find some of these online, and had to skip some.

HTTA Timeline Figures for SOTW Vol. 1

Introduction

[None]

Chapter 1

[None]

Chapter 2

Menes
Egyptian Civilization Begins
1st and 2nd Egyptian Dynasties

Chapter 3

Sumerian Civilization Begins,
Sumerian cuneiform

Chapter 4

3rd and 4th dynasties (Old Kingdom)
5th and 6th dynasties (Old Kingdom)
Cheops (Khufu)

Chapter 5

Akkadian Civilization
Sargon

Chapter 6

Sumerian Royal Standard of Ur
Abraham and Sarah
Canaanites Settle Canaan
Isaac
Jacob and Esau (Note: Only Jacob is mentioned in the text.)
Joseph

Chapter 7

Hammurabi

Chapter 8

Assyrian civilization
The Epic of Gilgamesh
Shamsi-Adad

Chapter 9

Indus River Valley Civilization
Mohenjo Daro

Chapter 10

Shang Dynasty
Huang Di
Leizu

Chapter 11

Climate Change In The Sahara

Chapter 12

7th and 8th Egyptian Dynasties
9th, 10th, and 11th Egyptian Dynasties
11th and 12th Egyptian Dynasties
13th Egyptian Dynasty
Hyksos Invasion & Influence

Chapter 13

14th and 15th Egyptian Dynasties
16th Egyptian Dynasty
17th Egyptian Dynasty
18th Egyptian Dynasty
Queen Hatshepsut
Amenhotep IV
Tutankhamen
Thutmose I

Chapter 14

Moses and the Exodus

Chapter 15

The Phoenician Civilization
Dido
Carthage

Chapter 16

King Ashurbanipal
Powers of Mesopotamia
Library of Ninevah
Tiglath-Pilesar III

Chapter 17

King Nebuchadnezzar
The Hanging Gardens of Babylon
The Destruction of Nineveh
Babylonian Empire

Chapter 18

Minoan Civilization

Chapter 19

Mycenaean Civilization
The Philistines
Dorians and Ionians Begin To Settle In Greece

Chapter 20

Greek Language Gains an Alphabet
Homer
The Olympic Games
Zeus
The Odyssey, by Homer

Chapter 21

Cyrus’ Proclamation
End of Babylon
Jews Returned Home
Jews taken into Captivity Stages 1, 2, 3
Medo-Persian Empire

Chapter 22

The Rise of Athens and Sparta
Plato

Chapter 23

The Golden Age of Greece

Chapter 24

Battle of Marathon
Battle of Salamis
Parthenon
Peloponnesian War
Alcibiades
Acropolis in Athens

Chapter 25

Philip II of Macedonia
Alexander III
The Split of Alexander’s Empire
The Pharos (Lighthouse) Of Alexandria
Hellenistic World
Grecian Empire

Chapter 26

The Olmecs
The Ancient Native Americans
The Nazca

Chapter 27

The City of Rome (Romulus and Remus)
The Etruscans
Roman Republic

Chapter 28

Appius Claudius Caecus
Roman Empire
The Roman Aqueducts
The Appian Way
Roman Gladiators

Chapter 29

The Punic Wars
Hannibal
Scipio Africanus

Chapter 30

Ancient India and Hinduism
Buddha
Aryans Invade India

Chapter 31

Emperor Asoka of India
The Mauryan Empire

Chapter 32

Ancient China
The Qin Dynasty
The Great Wall of China
Diamond Sutra
Terracotta Army

Chapter 33

Confucius

Chapter 34

Gaius Julius Caesar
First Triumvirate
Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus

Chapter 35

Gallic Wars
Pompey the Great
Cleopatra
Crossing the Rubicon
Brutus

Chapter 36

Augustus Caesar
Roman Empire

Chapter 37

Birth of Jesus the Christ
Jesus, His Teachings And Miracles
Crucifixion of Jesus
The Resurrection of Jesus
Tiberius Caesar

Chapter 38

The Destruction of Jerusalem

Chapter 39

Persecution of the Early Church
Nero
Constantine I

Chapter 40

Boadicea
Diocletian
Maximian

Chapter 41

Attila The Hun
Stilicho
Alaric

Chapter 42

Romulus Augustulus
The Fall of the Western Roman Empire
The Byzantine Empire Begins
Julian Calendar

I am not receiving any remuneration from either Story of the World or Homeschool in the Woods for this post or any of the links in it.

Albert Einstein

February 3, 2015February 3, 2015prayingmother

Learning about Albert Einstein is one of the assignments in the Noeo Physics 1 curriculum. The book that comes with the curriculum is Did it Take Creativity to Find Relativity, Albert Einstein? Unfortunately, we found the book to be too dry, so decided to find a different one. Since we wanted to start reading right that minute, we went for a kindle book. We chose the book Who Was Albert Einstein? This book had 106 reviews with the average being 5 stars, so I figured it was a safe bet. Indeed it was. For a short fun read on Albert Einstein, this book was a great pick. Perhaps it was a bit more history and less science than the previous book, but I really don’t think that my third grader needs to understand relativity or E=mc² too thoroughly, and he definitely enjoyed the history. He was most intrigued that Einstein’s theory of mass to energy conversion played a pivotal roll in the atomic bomb creation, and that Einstein petitioned Roosevelt to develop the atomic bomb, but was an avowed pacifist.

Ace did a notebook page (front and back) on Einstein.

Everything was narrated by Ace and I wrote it out for him. The top picture is just his overall report on what we read. The inside of the compass mini book is about how a compass that was gifted to Albert when he was young sparked his love of science. The orange mini book is about the atomic bomb. The cover is a drawing of a mushroom cloud by Ace.

Sources for the notebook page:

Albert Einstein page from Hold That Thought Notebook Pages (out of print)
Compass and Lightbulb mini books from Confessions of a Homeschooler
Atom Bomb mini book by Ace

George Washington Carver

October 28, 2014November 3, 2014prayingmother

Ace has fallen in love with audiobooks. Can’t blame him, I rather love them myself. It allows for him to “read” books that are considerably beyond his reading level, without my having to sit down. Of course, I still take time to sit and read, but the boy has been listening to audiobooks for hours a day, and I can’t read to him for several hours a day, unfortunately.

Last week he listened to the book Man’s Slave Becomes God’s Scientist: George Washington Carver. He loved it! George Washington Carver is just every boy’s best friend. After all, he escaped kidnapping; he got beat up and lived to tell about it; he was smarter than his teachers; and he loved dirt and bugs and all those boy kinds of things. That all aside, he makes for a worthy hero, so I love for my boys to admire worthy heroes. And he loved school, which is not a bad thing to encourage boys to love. (I said “boys” because actually others of us enjoyed the book, because we couldn’t escape it as it was being played over speakers loud enough for all of us to not be able to ignore, but fortunately we were all hooked.)

This was a total rabbit trail, and has nothing to do with any of our curriculum, but while we were on a role, we also checked out a book about George Washington Carver for younger kids: A Weed Is a Flower : The Life of George Washington Carver by Aliki and read that. That is a super well illustrated little book that I had read to my older kids once upon a time, and just had to read it again.

Rabbit trail or no, Ace did a notebook page about George Washington Carver and if you ask him to tell you stories, you’d better sit down because it’s going to take awhile. Here are a few of pictures.

Caption for bottom pictures: Left and center bottom pictures are the inside of top mini book in top right photo. Right bottom picture is the inside of the “An Amazing Scientist” mini book.

List of resources:
Hold That Thought World & US History Notebook Pages (Out of Print) (George Washington Carver Notebook Page)
U.S. History Little Books: Famous People — George Washington Carver (Free) (George Washington Carver 1864-1943 Mini Book)
Literacy-Building Booklets: Famous Americans (An Amazing Scientist Mini Book)
Man’s Slave Becomes God’s Scientist: George Washington Carver (Audio Book) (Sad to see that the price has gone up.)
A Weed Is a Flower : The Life of George Washington Carver (Well illustrated children’s book about Carver.)

Leif Erickson Lapbook

October 2, 2014September 30, 2014prayingmother

My third grader and I are doing the Early American History Study by Beautiful Feet. We just finished our first unit in the guide—Leif Erikson. We read the book, Leif the Lucky through two or three times, just because we enjoyed it so much. It’s not only well written, but has great illustrations, and that makes a book a win-win for an early elementary student. We also had lots of fun researching online about Vikings and Native Americans that Leif may have met.

And, of course, Ace thought that being Leif Erikson was one of the best parts of the unit.

Ace made a lapbook to show some of the things that he learned about Leif Erikson. Here are a few pictures.

List of sources for the lapbook (Some are affiliate links):

Cover picture from Exploration of North America Coloring Book (Dover History Coloring Book)
Map from Interactive 3-D Maps: American History by Donald Silver
“Who Were the Vikings” and “Vikings Were Also Called” both from Tina’s Dynamic Homeschool Blog Vikings Lapbook
Northern Lights from Google Images
“Native Americans in Vinland” from Google Images
“Father & Son Explorers” from History Through the Ages Timeline Figures
Viking Ship from Homeschool Share Viking Multi-Theme Unit
Coin idea from Homeschool in the Woods’ Great Empires Activity Pak
Viking mask from Funnycoloring.com
Paper Ship Model from forbicolla.com (not in English)

So far so good, as far as the Beautiful Feet Guide. What a nice pick of books they have made for this age group. Next comes Columbus, but first we are working on finishing up a science project.

“Origins” Lapbook by Ace (Age 8)

July 31, 2014July 23, 2014prayingmother

Here is the third and last lapbook on Origins. This one is by Ace.

If you’d like to see the sources that we used for these mini-books please see my previous post. All of the writing in this lapbook was dictated to me by Ace, but he did all the fancy designing and coloring in his lapbook. He also completely designed his Creation Days Wheel.

The cover:

The spread:

Vocabulary:

The Flood:

The Fall:

Why history is important:

Tower of Babel

Science Hoaxes:

Mt. St. Helens for a Young Earth:

Why Creation:

Ice Age:

Dinosaurs:

Evidence of a Young Earth:

Creation Days Circle:

If you’d like to see the other posts on this topic, here are the links:
How it All Began Unit
Zippy’s “Origins” Lapbook
JD’s “Origins” Lapbook

“Origins” Lapbook by JD (Age 11)

July 30, 2014July 30, 2014prayingmother

Here is the second lapbook on Origins. This one is by JD Boy.

If you’d like to see the sources that we used for these mini-books please see my previous post. JD Boy designed his own cover. JD wrote in some of his books and he dictated for me to write in some, but all were his answers. They are fun to read. I also think JD did some mighty fine coloring on a couple of these mini books.

The cover:

The spread:

The mini books:

Vocabulary:

Science Hoaxes:

Dinosaurs:

Days of Creation:

Why Creation?

Mt. St. Helens Evidences of a Young Earth:

Tower of Babel:

The Flood:

Evidences of a Young Earth:

Why History is Important:

Ice Age:

The Fall:

If you’d like to see the other posts on this topic, here are the links:

Origins Unit Study
Zippy’s “Origin” Lapbook
Ace’s “Origin” Lapbook

“Origins” Lapbook by Zippy (Age 14)

July 29, 2014July 23, 2014prayingmother

I decided that I’m going to share one lapbook a day from our origins study. We will start with my oldest’s lap book.

As you can see, washi tape was popular for this project. You will see it on all three lapbooks. The kids said they won’t use it again because it curls so bad, but it’s pretty this time.

I did have sources on hand for most of these mini books in this lapbook. Our sources were: Old Testament Activity Pak by Homeschool in the Woods, Creation Science Lapbook by In the Hands of a Child, and Binder-Builder by A Journey Through Learning for Truth Quest History Beginnings Guide. I had all of these before we did this study, so we picked and chose from all three. Zippy designed her own cover and also her own Creation Days Wheel.

(I see a few grammatical and spelling errors in these pictures that we missed. Guess we’ll have to go fix those.)

The Cover:

The Spread:

The mini-book close-ups:

Vocabulary:

Why Creation?

Mt. St. Helens Evidences for a Young Earth

Science Hoaxes Used to Prove Evolution

Evidences of a Young Earth

Creation Days Wheel (Design and Art by Zippy)

Tower of Babel/Distribution of People Groups

Dinosaurs

The Flood

Why History is Important

Ice Age

The Fall

If you’d like to see the other posts on this topic, here are the links:

Origins Unit Study
JD’s “Origin” Lapbook
Ace’s “Origin” Lapbook

How It All Began Unit

July 28, 2014July 23, 2014prayingmother

We recently finished a unit on how life began. We had been studying ancient history for awhile, but had skipped over the prehistory sections, but I decided that for my older two children, in particular, it was time to address the theory of evolution. So we backed up and discussed some of the early chapters in our ancient history books. To be fair, I am a staunch Young Earth Creationist, so that did influence the course of our study. I suppose it was actually the study of evolution from the creationist viewpoint. I want my children to realize that evidence for the stories of Creation and The Flood are not only found in the Bible but in other ancient documents and that there is evidence for them in some scientific studies.

Here is a list of the sources that we used:

The Usborne Encyclopedia of the Ancient World: Internet Linked (History Encyclopedias) (This is a secular history book.)

Streams of Civilization: Earliest Times to the Discovery of the New World (Vol 1) (79555) (The first chapter deals with different ideas of origin.)

Beginnings (Creation/Old Testament/Ancients/Egypt) (I love all of the other Truth Quest History Books that I’ve used, but this one is not my favorite. But I’m still using the parts that I like out of it, since I have it.)

The Great Dinosaur Mystery Video (Watch online for free.)

Creation vs Evolution by Terry McComb (DVD)

After we studied about origins from these sources, my three oldest children worked on lap books to show what they had learned. They all did a beautiful job on each lap book, but I plan to share those over the next few days.

Here are the links for:
Zippy’s “Origins” Lapbook
JD’s “Origins” Lapbook
Ace’s “Origins” Lapbook

George Washington Carver

March 16, 2014March 13, 2014prayingmother

A Weed Is A Flower by Aliki

I’m busy sorting through some older school stuff and I keep coming across things that just makes me a little sentimental. This is a page that Zippy narrated five years ago after we read the book A Weed is a Flower by Aliki, which by the way, is a really great little book. And the illustration is really neat too.

This is what it says:

“George Washington Carver was born a very tiny baby to some slaves. His daddy died and some thieves came and stole servants from their owners. One time, one came to the house where they lived and stole his mommy and him. The master sent someone to find George Washington Carver and his mommy. His mommy was never found, but he was.

“He grew up to be a famous man and he studied plants, and he helped the farmers with their crops so they could earn enough money.

“One time some special people came to the school where he worked. He made them a meal. The people were surprised to find out that everything was made of peanuts. He studied until he died.” June, 2009

Her writing has grown up since this. I mean she has grown up, but so did her writing. It makes me happy and sad all the same time.