Time Travelers Series: The Early 19th Century CD-ROM

Create your own lapbook, supplement your unit studies, and bring some more life into your textbook studies with Homeschool in the Woods's fourth installment in the Time Travelers History Study CD-ROM collection! Covering the early 19th century, your children will discover interesting events and people of the era through hands-on projects, experiences, and more.

"The Early 19th Century," contains 25 lessons that can spread across 5-10 weeks, covering the growth of a nation and the people that left an impression on its development.

Lessons include:

• The Louisiana Purchase
• The Lewis & Clark Expedition
• The War of 1812
• America's First 12 Presidents
• Statehoods up to 1850
• Native Americans
• Inventions and Innovators
• The Alamo
• People of Importance
• The Mexican-American War
• Mountain Men
• Pioneers
• The Westward Movement
• The Gold Rush
• And more!

Activities include:

• Creative Writing
• Recipes of the Era
• Factfile Cards
• File Folder Game
• Notebook Timeline
• Penmanship Pages
• Notebooking Activities
• Three-dimensional Projects such as a Pioneer Log Cabin, making a Coonskin Cap, and more.
• Authentic Crafts such as Piecing a Quilt and Corn Husk Dolls.
• 10 Lap Book Projects, including pop-ups, layered books, etc.
• And a final "Chuck Wagon Dinner" to bring the unit to a close.

The CD includes each lesson's text pages, project overview pages, and a wide variety of masters for projects. Photos and drawings help illustrate the directions for completing over 35 activities; choose the projects that work best for your family! Five "Project Days" are built into the schedule to help allow for extra time to complete outstanding projects.

Teacher helps, resource lists, teacher keys, and a "guide-at-a-glance" are also included. This one-page guide will allow the teacher to see the whole schedule of upcoming topics and projects on one page. Tastefully laid out for inclusion in your three-ring binder, this unit study will give both the teacher and students a thorough, exciting adventure into the past.

Suggested Grades: 3-8