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, 13 ancient history blackline maps, hands-on activity instructions, literature and web link enrichment recommendations, unit schedules and supply lists, and 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.
