History Quest: Early Times Study Guide

History Quest: Early Times Study Guide

Grade level: 1st - 6th

Pages: 270

Course type: Study guide designed to be used with the History Quest: Early Times narrative chapter book or audiobook. (Please see the Booklist tab for the literature books required to complete this course.)

Authors: Lisa Hawkins and Lindsey Sodano

Overview

History Quest: Early Times Study Guide is a comprehensive, engaging, full-year secular history curriculum for elementary-age children. Designed to be used with the History Quest: Early Times narrative history book and other resources, it provides 31 weeks of creative, hands-on activities, literature suggestions, geography study, discussions, and writing assignments that help bring history to life.

Each unit in the guide corresponds to a chapter from History Quest: Early Times and provides a week’s worth of engaging and interactive activities laid out in clear, easy-to-follow lesson plans. You’ll find a suggested daily schedule that focuses on a different learning technique each day, important terms and concepts related to that week’s reading, resource recommendations, and more. Each week’s plan can be followed as written in the guide or adapted to meet your family’s particular needs and interests.

A helpful appendix in the back features literature and supply lists for the entire course, as well as map keys and student activity pages (conveniently perforated and reproducible for single-family use).

Hygge History

Within the curriculum, four weeks of Hygge History are included—a special literature study encouraging parents and students to snuggle up together and enjoy classic tales from four cultures studied in this course: Sumer, Greece, India, and China. Based on the Danish philosophy of hygge, which emphasizes coziness and comfort, these units are a great way to slow down, connect, and learn more about a particular time and place through storytelling. Each Hygge History unit comes with detailed descriptions of suggested books for that week.

Through History Quest: Early Times, students gain a deep understanding of the ideas, events, and individuals that shaped early civilizations in the ancient world and take their first step in a life-long quest to explore and appreciate history.

What material does History Quest: Early Times cover?

Students will learn about events from the pre-historic Paleolithic period to approximately 700 CE. Major areas of study include:

• Paleolithic and Neolithic Times
• Earliest Civilizations
• Ancient Egypt
• The Andes Mountain Civilizations
• Mesoamerica
• Babylon, Assyria, and Persia
• The Hebrews and Phoenicians
• Ancient Greece
• India
• The Roman Empire
• Ancient China
• Arabia and the Rise of the Islamic Empire

How is the material covered?

Five important learning techniques are woven into each weekly lesson throughout the History Quest Study Guides at age-appropriate levels. Through these techniques, students:

• Examine multiple resources
• Read historically significant literature
• Develop and strengthen critical thinking skills
• Practice and refine written and verbal expression
• Study world geography and geographical significances throughout history

What is included with the Study Guide?

Thirty-one weekly units with lessons for:

• Reading assignments from History Quest: Early Times and The Usborne Encyclopedia of World History with Internet Links
• Four weeks of Hygge History literature reading
• History Travel Log entries (timeline/geography activity)
• Terms & Concepts (weekly learning goals)
• Map work
• Reading comprehension, writing, dictation, and copy work
• Crafts, cooking, artwork, and other hands-on activities
• Thirteen ancient history blackline maps
• Hands-on activity instructions
• Literature and online enrichment recommendations
• Weekly unit schedules and supply lists
• Student coloring and activity pages

Additional Resources Needed

In addition to this study guide, you will need:

• History Quest: Early Times narrative history book or audiobook
• The Usborne Encyclopedia of World History with Internet Links
• Hygge History literature books (see the Booklist tab)
• Access to reference material via the library or internet
• World map
• Basic art & craft supplies (see TBYB for a complete list)
• Colored pencils for map work
• 3-ring binder or notebook

The TBYB sample contains a complete list of supplies needed for craft activities. 

Important Copyright Information

If you choose the eBook version of this course, you are purchasing a license to use the PDF for your own children. You may make copies for your own children, but you may not share (email, download, print and distribute, resell, etc.) this eBook or any portion of it with others.

Licensing is available for group, school, and co-op use. Please contact Pandia Press for details on group licensing: info@pandiapressbooks.com