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Ohio Notebooking Pages

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July 5, 2017 By Jennifer Lambert 20 Comments

So, it’s official.

We’re moving to Ohio this summer.

We threw out our printables, but I still like them occasionally, like loooong plane and car rides.

I found some fun Ohio state notebooking pages to learn about our new home. We’ve lived in Germany for three glorious years, so it will probably be a bit of a culture shock going back to the States!

We haven’t gone to church in a while, so we’re excited to find a new church home. Thank you for praying for us!

Read about the PCS grief process for our military family.

We have so many fun things planned for our new home!

5 things we’ve missed about the United States:

  1. Chick-Fil-A (and it’s just as good as we remember!)
  2. Air conditioning (but it’s really cold to us now!)
  3. Potatoes (the ones in mainland Europe are sweeter.)
  4. Window Screens (yay for keeping out bugs!)
  5. Pay at the pump gasoline!

5 things we’ve noticed now that we’re back in our passport country:

  1. American flags. Everywhere. It’s like we don’t want to forget where we are.
  2. The roads are dirty, full of pot holes, and not clearly marked. Drivers aren’t as courteous or knowledgeable. We miss the Autobahn!
  3. It’s very loud and bright, everywhere, all the time. So many ads and commercials.
  4. So many mediocre things seem so expensive.
  5. There are few good beers here. What’s with all the IPA and fruity beer?

The Ohio flag is pretty cool:

Ohio’s state flag was adopted in 1902. The Ohio burgee, as the swallowtail design is properly called, was designed by John Eisemann. The large blue triangle represents Ohio’s hills and valleys, and the stripes represent roads and waterways.

We’re settling in to Ohio really well. It’s so pretty here! Now, we just need to go pick up our minivan from the port and I’ll be all set.

Ohio Notebooking Pages:

  • Apples 4 the Teacher – a reading list, trivia, coloring, and games
  • EdHelper – Reading Comprehension, games, and activities
  • 123 Homeschool 4Me – a good unit for younger kids
  • Education.com – Geography, history, and coloring
  • Have Fun Teaching – Reading Comprehension
  • ThoughtCo – State Symbols and History
  • Crayola – State Flag and Symbol Page
  • The Homeschool Mom – All About Ohio unit study
  • Enchanted Learning – Ohio printables
  • Ben and Me – Ohio Unit Study
  • Easy Fun School – Ohio info and unit
  • 3 Boys and a Dog – Ohio Fact Files
  • Our Journey Westward – Around the USA book list
  • Ohio Travel Bucket List by Travel Inspired Living
  • Ohio (and nearby) Bucket List

Do you have any Ohio info or pages to add to my list?

USA State Study Notebooking Pages

Do you have any tips about living in Ohio?

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Why We Love Notebooking

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August 16, 2016 By Jennifer Lambert 12 Comments

What is notebooking?

Notebooking is…

Creating and compiling a personalized notebook of learning experiences, new knowledge, insights, sketches, illustrations, creative writing, reflections, and more! This is like a scrapbook of things learned.

The notebook takes on the personality of its author – the student – as she decides what content to include, how to present it, how to organize it, and how to shape what she’s learned.

The notebook captures the journey of a child’s learning. Notebooks not only record new knowledge, but also reflect deepening understanding of the world, developing a writing voice, and exploring creative talents.

2 components to notebooking…

Written:

This can include narration, facts, copywork, poetry, vocabulary, essay, creative writing, thoughts and opinions.

Visual:

This can include drawing, maps, timelines, clipart, images, coloring pages, photographs, borders, stickers. They can be as fancy or plain as you like.

Notebooking is not…

It’s not busywork. It’s not like fill-in-the-blank worksheets. It’s not a diary. It’s not inflexible. It’s not cookie-cutter. It’s not just for a certain type of learner. It’s not just for a certain age. There are no limitations.

Why we love notebooking:

Notebooking develops

  • critical thinking skills
  • penmanship
  • research skills
  • pre-writing skills
  • strengthens comprehension and retention.

Notebooking and narrations can be used with or without formal curriculum and it is not limited to any particular homeschool or educational method.

My kids exceed my expectations with their notebooking pages all the time.

Sometimes, they want to do copywork or narration.

Sometimes they want to get really creative.

Sometimes, they feel colorful and other times, they just want to jot down the facts.

Notebooking Pages for a History Unit

How we use notebooking in all our school subjects:

I often print all the relevant notebooking pages for a unit of history before we begin study. The kids fill them in as we read or afterwards, summarizing what they learned.

We love copywork and art with Draw Write Now. We practice with dry erase boards and then complete the writing and drawing in our workbooks. We keep art journals and portfolios. I even frame some of the really great ones.

We love learning the Bible with notebooking. We write Scripture, do stick figures with Grapevine Studies, complete notebooking journals with Apologia.

We love notebooking about science and nature study. We learned about grasshoppers. We learned about our backyard pond. We went on a winter nature walk and notebooked about what we saw. We also love the Apologia science notebooking journals.

We notebook with Life of Fred math. We also do a lot of hands-on math and notebooking.

Of course, we notebook with literature. See how we use notebooking with language arts. My teen keeps reader notebooks as she reads.

As my kids get older, they love notebooking online or with technology. The Notebooking Publisher App is great for creating notebooking pages – especially handy when we can’t find ready-made ones for special topics.

Our Favorite Tools for Notebooking:

We start with super simple and frugal:

  • Binders
  • Composition books
  • Colorful printer paper
  • Hole puncher

As the kids get older –  more creative and independent, we add other elements:

  • Stickers and scrapbooking supplies
  • Good Prismacolor
  • Blank journals

For personalized notebooks (great for unit studies!):

I use these for unit studies, copywork books, Bible notebooks, and more.

  • Comb binder
  • Combs
  • Cardstock
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Math and Exercise

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November 17, 2015 By Jennifer Lambert 1 Comment

We did the most fun activity in math rather than just doing worksheets or workbooks.

We combined exercise and math with a lesson on distance, rate, and time.

This is perfect for kinesthetic learners and we all had lots of fun.

We did several physical activities with a timer.

I just used my stopwatch and timer on my iPhone.

We chose a few easy activities that even little brother could do with us.

This was based off a lesson in our Singapore math workbook.

Measuring Time

We counted how many times we could jump rope in 1 minute.

Measuring Rate

We saw how many times we could draw triangles or write a phrase in 1 minute.

Drawing Fast

We timed our sprints to see who was fastest.

I just guessed how far it was from the curb to the table. It certainly wasn’t 100 meters, but it was fine for our methods!

Then we ran a few more times and did averages.

How Fast

We discussed distance=rate times time or d=rt.

This is a bit advanced for my kids, ages 5, 8, and 9. My girls are just getting into multiplication. But they will remember we did this in a couple years when we begin algebra and physics in our studies.

We enjoyed being outside for school and doing a fun activity rather than just book work.

I made a fun notebooking page to go along with our activities.

Click to download a copy of our notebooking page: Learning Distance Rate and Time

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Our Backyard Pond Study

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May 21, 2015 By Jennifer Lambert 5 Comments

The kids have been super excited to watch our little backyard pond and the life cycle taking place right before our very eyes.

Very fun and educational.

We’ve taken an unschooling approach to our pond study.

Our Unschooling Pond Study

Here’s our little backyard pond:

This was the pond a month ago and we have enjoyed watching the plants grow and the frogs and toads frolic.

My Little Backyard Pond a Month Ago

This is what the pond looks like now:

Our Backyard Pond

It was here when we moved in last year, but all dry and overgrown. I cleaned it up. I planted some azaleas and a Japanese maple. I have some pea gravel and want to line it with granite bricks instead of the bamboo fence. I need to trim the bushes.

The yellow irises are a lovely surprise!

And I love the yellow buttercups all over the yard. I can’t bear to mow them or pick them.

I have no idea what I’m doing, but apparently it’s a success!

We have three goldfish that survived the winter. We had a dozen or more frogs and toads last month, singing and mating and laying eggs.

The kids were absolutely fascinated watching them.

The cattails and other pond plants are flourishing.
The Pond in Our Backyard

A few weeks ago, we discovered and several clusters and strands of eggs. The clusters are from frogs and the strands are from toads.

Frog Eggs

The kids explored the neighbor’s larger pond with lots of tadpoles. Love this pic, taken by our neighbor!

Neighbors Pond

We also drove to a couple nearby larger ponds to explore and compare with our tiny backyard pond.

Tadpole

This heron has learned that the bread thrown by humans attracts the minnows. He uses the bread as bait so he can eat the minnows!

Tori loves turtles!

Smart Heron

I love the Charlotte Mason, Montessori, and Unschooling methods of learning.

The children are responsible for their education, with just a little guidance from the parent or teacher. They are led but what delights them, are independent, and are not externally rewarded.

They develop a love of learning.

What’s the difference between the methods I mentioned?

Charlotte Mason: “Education is an Atmosphere, a Discipline, a Life.” We keep lessons short and don’t work on every subject every day.  We read, read, read living books and explore.

Montessori: “a system of education for young children that seeks to develop natural interests and activities rather than use formal teaching methods.” I provide many opportunities for the children to learn individually and naturally with open-ended activities.

Unschooling: “puts the desire, drive, motive and responsibility for life – this thing we call learning, or education – in the hands of the learner.” I am open to many different options for learning and don’t just rely on prepared curriculum.

How we learned about pond life:

Observation

We watched the plants bloom and grow and the critters move about. We discussed what they were doing over a period of several weeks.

Reading

We used a variety of reading materials to further explore – online articles, from the library, from our home bookshelves, encyclopedias. We love The Handbook of Nature Study for lessons on our natural world.

Research and Journal Writing

Videos

We looked up videos of frogs and toads online and watched different parts of the life cycle. We compared the different species at different times.

Notebooking

We have open-ended pages to draw and journal about our learning experiences. The kids write and draw about what they found most fascinating. They asked for pages on frogs, toads, irises, ferns, snails, wildflowers, cattails, and more! All pages are different and original.

NatureStudyNotebooking.jpg

Successfully unschooling:

  • It’s important that I am excited about learning with my kids (and sometimes moreso!) My excitement is surely contagious and I show my children it’s safe and ok to get excited about what we’re learning.
  • Many extended learning opportunities. I provide books and websites, notebooking pages, videos, field trips, library trips for more books. We all do love to read and books are super important to us. I have modeled a love for reading since before my kids were born.
  • Lots of oral discussion. I love listening to my kids and answering their questions as we learn. I always want them to feel safe to ask the hard and uncomfortable questions.
  • Projects and crafts. My kids learn best by doing. They love to create as they learn, so providing them opportunities to draw and be artistic is good for them and helps them understand concepts.

I’ve found that when I don’t stress with checklists, schedules, curriculum…my kids naturally learn and explore and exceed my expectations with their school work!

Favorite Resources

  • Notability app for iPads for fun clipart, presentations, and graphic design. My kids love to create books about their favorite topics!
  • Productive Homeschooling for printables and online creation. My kids love the beautiful designs and many options for notebooking pages!
  • Handbook of Nature Study blog – great printables, challenges, and ideas for learning about nature and art.
  • BBC Nature Documentaries – great video education in a British accent
  • Cornell Ornithology Lab – tons of info about birds, including their calls, videos, coloring pages, and more!
  • My Nature Study Pinterest board has lots of great ideas and lesson resources.

We love science!

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Art Journals

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January 14, 2015 By Jennifer Lambert 16 Comments

I got the kids supplies for art journaling for Christmas.

They’ve been DYING to try it out!

Amazing how some notebooks and stamps get kids so excited.

Getting Ready to Make Art

Kate had asked me a couple months ago: “What’s scrapbooking?”

I seriously felt like a failure. I need to turn in my girl card, y’all.

I have failed as a woman.

My girls didn’t know what scrapbooking is.

So, of course I showed them some examples on Pinterest.

They picked out some complementary papers and got to scrappin’.

Making art journal pages

My son, Alex, wanted an art journal too. So I relinquished the one I bought for myself.

Sacrifices, people.

And he wanted a flower sticker on his cover page.

Of course.

Cover Page

Alex really loves the shaped scissors that cut in pretty designs. He LOVES the paper punch outs for stars.

The hibiscus paper was his very favorite since he was born in Hawaii.

First Art Journal Page

Katherine loved the letter stickers.

And of course, there’s no pattern. That’s how she rolls.

Inside Cover Art Journal

I am very impressed with her pattern pairing. She also loves the stamps and paper punch-outs.

She won’t need much guidance with art journals as we work along. I won’t even try.

First Art Journal Pages

Tori used a flower sticker for her letter O.

I’m surprised she didn’t get a ruler to line up her letter stickers or something. She’s my perfectionist and I hope that art journaling will help her confidence.

Dotty Inside Cover Art Journal

I love love love Tori’s paper choices.

She said the blue was like water so she stamped swimming animals.

Layered and Stamped Art Journal Page

I plan to be more diligent with arts and crafts this year.

I will get out of my comfort zone and allow my kids freedom of expression. And messes. Maybe even glitter glue.

Baby steps.

Art is good for the kids and for me.

It will help my kids express their individuality and have some fun yet productive downtime.

It’s good for me to embrace a mess and realize it doesn’t matter as much as the process.

Check out my art board:

Famous Artists & Picture Study Notebooking Pages
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New Nature Studies

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June 12, 2014 By Jennifer Lambert 1 Comment

The kids and I are excited to explore our new home and the huge forest we’re going to live in.

We have hats (ticks) and homemade bug spray (with essential oils) and we’re anxious to get settled and go hiking. I hear there’s a gorgeous lake not too far from our village. We shall find it.

We stopped at one of the makeshift parking spots by the roadside and had a snack and saw some lovely flowers and critters.

I’m thinking this is Queen Anne’s Lace or some wild parsley.

Queen Anne's lace

These lavender flowers (probably common speedwell) are by the roadside everywhere. And red-orange poppies. Gorgeous. And the dog roses and clover smell so sweet.

lavender flowers

I’ve been trying to identify the birds around here. We have sparrows, crows, blackbirds, starlings, swallows darting all over – and some darling black and white tufted guys (I think it’s a crested tit).

I do loved the blackbirds when they chatter. They sound like an old typewriter.

This one is a type of robin, probably a redstart.

bird on a branch

We stood watching this guy on a blade of grass for quite some time.

red beetle

We are enraptured by the red tufted squirrels. They are the cutest things! I need to snap a photo. They’re not real shy but I haven’t had my camera on our walks around base.

Luckily, the base library has some nifty nature guides to tide us over for a while.

The kids are loving collecting the seedpods from all the trees around here. Sweetgum, maples, beech, oaks…and all the magnificent evergreens.

German Nature Study

I can’t wait to print some notebooking pages for our new studies and for all our art supplies and notebooks to arrive this week!

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Progeny Press Review

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June 2, 2014 By Jennifer Lambert Leave a Comment

The kids and I loved reading the novels and completing the literature guides for Progeny Press.

We reviewed the literature guides for The Hunger Games and Little House in the Big Woods.

Liz had begged to read the Hunger Games books and this was perfect timing. She hasn’t watched any of the movies yet. So we have a deal.

Progeny Press Review
Little House in the Big Woods is a perfect accompaniment for our history studies.  The girls loved this book!

We visited Stately Oaks Plantation in Jonesboro, GA, that was about the same time period and the girls were fascinated.

Many of the items in the historic home were items mentioned in the book and the girls loved seeing them in person.

Another tourist mentioned he had just visited and toured the Laura Ingalls Wilder home and he told the girls about some of the highlights he enjoyed.

The girls were very interested in the simpler time where Laura had never been to a store and Ma and Pa lived off what the land provided.

The files are interactive pdfs. I had Liz complete The Hunger Games lessons on my laptop, but I printed out two copies of Little House in the Big Woods guides for Tori and Kate and placed them in colorful pocket folders with prongs for them.

Teal and green of course.

Little House in the Big Woods study guides

Tori and Kate loved the vocabulary pages! They begged me to read and discuss and help them with their notebooking each evening.  We completed lessons before bedtime and they wanted to stay up later for more!

Notebooking in TLF

They begged to continue working at Grandma’s house. They love the story of Laura and want to read the whole series now.

We did the discussion questions orally, otherwise it’s a lot of writing.

The activities at the end of each lessons were fun and engaging. We have done many in our history studies recently. We made butter and have studied pioneer ways. The girls really loved making a calendar and drawing pictures for that (see their folders above).

notebooking at Grandma's house
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Liz works independently on my laptop and uses the actual book a friend gave her for review. I then bought her the whole trilogy on Kindle.

I like the different levels of questioning in this guide that encourages Liz to think. Some were just basic comprehension and others were more intellectual and required her to research the symbolism. We had some great discussions about the vocabulary, questions, and thinking skills. I explained literary terms to help her. I’ve read all the books too.

I plan to have Liz complete the optional activities once we get more settled. It’s a great incentive before she sees the movies.

She’s been writing fan fiction too!

completing online notebooking

These are good quality literature guides with lots of options – from vocabulary and multi-leveled questions to fun extension activities. I am impressed. I don’t usually use lit guides when we read books, but these are really great and the girls enjoyed them and begged to do their work each day and didn’t want to stop to do anything else.

The Hunger Games eGuide is recommended for grades 8-12 and the Little House in the Big Woods eGuide is recommended for grades 3-5.

The groups are divided like this:

High School: Recommended for Grades 8-12
Middle School: Recommended for Grades 5-8
Upper Elementary: Recommended for Grades 3-5
Lower Elementary: Recommended for Grades K-3

The eGuide for The Hunger Games is $21.99.

The eGuide for Little House in the Big Woods is $16.99.

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Music Study with Doctor Who

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February 5, 2014 By Jennifer Lambert 12 Comments

I thought it would be fun to do a Music Study with Doctor Who.

The kids certainly agreed so we set to researching together.

Music of Doctor Who unit study with free notebooking page!

50 years of great music. 11 (or 12) doctors representing decades (or millions of years) of history.

Doctor Who 50th Anniversary

Check out this performance, complete with video clips. LOVE!

I also love this series of shorts about the original composers of sci-fi music: – The history of science fiction program music! So full of win.

List of all music featured in Doctor Who episodes=awesome.

Study with Your Doctor:

1st Doctor: The Beatles – get a CD on Amazon or download it on iTunes (seriously, everyone should have some in their collection)

2nd Doctor: Bartók – Amazon CD or iTunes album

3rd Doctor:

  • King Crimson (I saw them perform at a tiny club in the ’90s! It was epic.) – get their CD on Amazon
  • Emerson Lake and Palmer – download a great album on iTunes
  • Berlioz – CD on Amazon or iTunes download

4th Doctor:

  • Debussy – Amazon or iTunes
  • Tchaikovsky – Amazon or iTunes
  • Schubert – Amazon or iTunes

5th Doctor: ’20s music – Learn how to dance the Charleston!

  • Savoy Havana Band and The Savoy Orpheans – Amazon or iTunes
  • Irving Berlin – Amazon or iTunes

6th Doctor: Fun ’60s music and beach tunes

  • The Beach Boys – Amazon or iTunes
  • Elvis Presley – Amazon or iTunes
  • Jimi Hendrix – Amazon or iTunes

7th Doctor:

  • Wagner – Amazon or iTunes
  • British composer Keff McCulloch – several tracks on the 50th Anniversary soundtrack on iTunes

8th Doctor: Puccini – Amazon or iTunes

9th Doctor:

  • Big Band, especially Glenn Miller – and practice swing dancing! Amazon or iTunes
  • David Bowie – Amazon or iTunes
  • Rick Astley  – Amazon or iTunes

10th Doctor: Program music by British composer Murray Gold – Amazon or iTunes

11th Doctor: Such a fun way to study the greatness of classic bands and artists:

  • Queen – Amazon or iTunes
  • Duran Duran – Amazon or iTunes
  • The Cult – Amazon or iTunes

Notebooking options – some free and some not:

  • Notebooking Fairy
  • SQUILT music appreciation curriculum
  • Productive Homeschooling
  • Music in Our Homeschool pages
  • In All You Do Notebooking Composer Pages
  • Practical Pages Music Appreciation Worksheets
  • That Resource Site Composer Notebooking Pages
  • Music Lapbooking from Homeschool Share
  • 123Homeschool4Me Music Lapbook
  • Orchestra lapbooking and notebooking from Homeschool Helper
  • Homeschool in the Woods composers lapbook

AND…Look what I made for you!

Doctor Who Music Notebooking Pages – with a T.A.R.D.I.S.!

FREE. Click to download. You’re welcome.

Doctor Who Music Notebooking Pages

So, like the good homeschool mama I am, I asked my kids the other day: what do you want to be when you grow up?

Answer?

The Doctor’s Companions.

For the win.

Check out my other cross-curricular unit study here.

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Elementary Chemistry and Physics Demonstrations

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December 13, 2013 By Jennifer Lambert 1 Comment

The kids have been loving Apologia Exploring Creation with Chemistry and Physics for science this year.

Tori especially loves the coloring pages and copywork in the Junior Notebooking Journal.

coloring

Kate just wants to do experiments all the time.

We worked on water displacement with pinto beans. I think the winner was over 500 beans!

displacement

Most experiments and projects are simple enough that Alex joins in.

displacement with beans

I love his expression. The surface tension fascinated him.

water displacement

Review time! I wrote the definitions on the board for the girls to add to their notebooking journals.

science vocabulary

It combines all the greatness of notebooking with very little effort. The girls love the colorful foldables and lapbooking components.

science notebooking

I usually set up the items for the girls to complete so there are no mishaps with cutting or gluing.

notebooking in science

The girls loved making water molecules with candy (gobstoppers and nerds).

water molecule activity

What are you learning in science?

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Studying US History

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October 17, 2013 By Jennifer Lambert Leave a Comment

In light of the government shutdown, it’s been interesting to see how simple things were 225 years ago.

Thankfully, my husband got a paycheck, but we know many who have not and they are struggling. We pray this all gets resolved quickly.

We use Tapestry of Grace as our history core.

We follow a four year cycle of learning history, but US history is only in year three and four because we’re a young country.

See how we do history.

Favorite US History books:

  • A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn
  • A Different Mirror by Ronald Takaki  
  • An African American and Latinx History of the United States by Paul Ortiz 
  • A Black Women’s History of the United States by Daina Ramey Berry and Kali Nicole Gross 
  • An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz  
  • A Disability History of the United States by Kim E. Nielsen  
  • A Queer History of the United States by Michael Bronski  
  • Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong by James W. Loewen
  • A History of US: Eleven-Volume Set by Joy Hakim
  • Life: Our Century In Pictures by Richard B. Stolley
  • The Century for Young People by Peter Jennings

We study our nation’s beginnings in our homeschool.

We love lapbooks and notebooking!

I grew up traveling to many military and history sites around the USA. I hope to show my kids how beautiful the US landscape is and also discuss disturbing history topics and how we can learn from our mistakes.

We watch Schoolhouse Rock videos and do lots and lots and lots of reading.

Studying US History

Travel

We visited the Missions in San Antonio, TX.

We explored Hawaii when we lived there for three years.

We learned about the Transcontinental Railroad in Utah. We took a trip to Yellowstone and the Tetons.

When we moved to Ohio, we learned about the Wright Brothers.

Colonialism

Did Columbus really discover America?

No.

We enjoy reading about different aspects of the discovery of America and the American colonies.

My 4th of July Unit.

My Revolutionary War Unit.

My Constitution Unit.

Government

How was the US Government formed?

We enjoy reading about “the founding fathers” (and mothers) and how our early government worked. It’s pretty unique with states and federal.

My eldest is pretty fascinated by the election process. She likes the Presidential Game and iCivics.

We all loved this mouse book about the Supreme Court.

Here’s the official page of the USS Constitution. It’s important to read and understand it.

Military

The USA probably has the strongest military in the world, but it wasn’t always that way.

Is it right that we’re the policemen of the world?

Old Ironsides coloring page for younger kids.

Learn about sailing with these fun games and activities!

My girls love to make their own timelines, biography pages, and write about their learning in history and other subjects. They wrote a timeline of the events leading up the War of 1812.

  • Revolutionary War
  • Civil War
  • World War I
  • World War II
  • Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day
  • Japan Unit
  • Korea Unit
  • Vietnam Unit
  • The Middle East
  • Patriot Day or 9/11

Pioneer

My girls loved notebooking about Lewis and Clark.

We lived in Utah for four years and they really celebrated Pioneer Day which never really set right with me.

I enjoy learning about homesteading, but the history of the US exploring the west and manifest destiny is terrible.

White Europeans stole land and colonized in the name of God, destroying native culture.

Native Americans

We’re reading about Sacagawea and Tecumseh and I’m loving learning along with the kids!

(They’re still here.)

  • Indigenous People Book List – by and about Natives
  • Thanksgiving Unit
  • Johnston Farm and Indian Agency

Black History

I have a duty to teach my white children truth about our country and its history.

I teach from many different resources about Black history year-round with our history cycles, not just one month a year.

My youngest daughter and I made a cotton gin with Story of the World!

We learn about history by visiting museums like the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center.

Stone Mountain is an odd amusement park that sparks much discussion.

Civil Rights

We’re reading and learning about civil rights in the USA and around the world.

  • Nonviolence Unit Study
  • Being AntiRacist
  • Celebrating Diversity
  • Love Your Neighbor
  • Hispanic Heritage Unit
  • Asian Pacific American Heritage Unit

The US has much work to do for civil rights for all.

Our favorite resource for notebooking is Notebooking Pages.

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What are your favorite US history resources?

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