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World War II Homeschool History-Manhattan Project,Vocabulary & A. Frank

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I have some World War II homeschool history resources.

Manhattan Project, Vocabulary Words and Anne Frank Minibooks @ Tina's Dynamic Homeschool Plus

One reason we love homeschool unit studies so much is that when life happens, we can always pick up on unit studies where we left off.

I didn’t mean to wait this long to share the rest of the minibooks for our World War II homeschool history unit study, but after moving again, we just put the lapbook and unit study on hold.

World War II Homeschool History

So today, I’m sharing the last three minibooks, which are the Manhattan Project, vocabulary words with a pocket and a few facts about Anne Frank.

Manhattan Project, Vocabulary Words and Anne Frank Minibooks 1 @ Tina's Dynamic Homeschool Plus
Manhattan Project, Vocabulary Words and Anne Frank Minibooks 2 @ Tina's Dynamic Homeschool Plus

I created the words flash card style. This means that your child can just memorize the vocabulary and then for self-testing, just fold in half on the dotted line.

Manhattan Project, Vocabulary Words and Anne Frank Minibooks 3 @ Tina's Dynamic Homeschool Plus

There is so much to cover in this topic and Tiny has read more on this topic than any he has done before but I know we have to cut it off because he is almost ready to scoot onto our next topic.

More World War II Activities

Because we do our unit study and lapbooks too as we plod along, I never have lapbooks in one giant download.

I also do it this way so that you can grab just the parts you need instead of downloading minibooks you may not need.

World War II Homeschool History-Manhattan Project,Vocabulary & A. Frank
World War II Homeschool History-Manhattan Project,Vocabulary & A. Frank
World War II Homeschool History-Manhattan Project,Vocabulary & A. Frank
World War II Homeschool History-Manhattan Project,Vocabulary & A. Frank
World War II Homeschool History-Manhattan Project,Vocabulary & A. Frank
World War II Homeschool History-Manhattan Project,Vocabulary & A. Frank
World War II lapbook and homeschool history unit study.


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World War II Homeschool History: Minibooks Causes & Great Depression

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Our World War II unit study has been a fun start to our slow start to our year.

Free 5 Causes of War and The Great Depression minibooks for a World War II homeschool unit study and lapbook @ Tina's Dynamic Homeschool Plus

Because there are so many subtopics to consider under this time period, this unit study has been about painting broad strokes.

World War II

Like all unit studies, you can only cover so much material though it seems like you want to cover it all. Covering too many details can set us back in our unit study because the main points can get obscured.

So today, I have two more free minibooks, which are 5 Causes of World War II and The Great Depression.

There can be numerous causes to World War II, but highlighting about 5 of them for kids at the high school level is a great start for broad strokes.

Too, The Great Depression could be a unit study by itself, but by tying it in here to this time period, Tiny gets a larger picture of how life was back then.

Remember like most all of my minibooks, I give you choices because I like choices. So I have two minibooks, but they come in two choices. One minibook has facts in it and the other minibook is blank to allow your child to fill in his own research.

I offer these two choices because sometimes time is limited and you can decide to use one minibook filled in and one blank minibook, or both blank or both filled in.

Lapbooks are just small nuggets of quick facts and this one is no different.

We are almost ready to start adding the minibooks to the lapbook, but in the meantime we store them in a ziploc bag until we are sure we don’t want to create anymore.

More World War II Hands-on Activities

Because we do our unit study and lapbooks too as we plod along, I never have lapbooks in one giant download.

I also do it this way so that you can grab just the parts you need instead of downloading minibooks you may not need.

World War II Homeschool History: Minibooks Causes & Great Depression
World War II Homeschool History: Minibooks Causes & Great Depression
World War II Homeschool History: Minibooks Causes & Great Depression
World War II Homeschool History: Minibooks Causes & Great Depression
World War II Homeschool History: Minibooks Causes & Great Depression
World War II Homeschool History: Minibooks Causes & Great Depression
World War II lapbook and homeschool history unit study.

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10 Early American History Events that Happened in Fall for Homeschool Middle or High School

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Do you know which event in Early American history was a milestone for freedom of press or who received the first American patent for salt-making? Also, look at my page homeschool middle school for more fun tips.

Studying Early American homeschool history should also include learning about culture, science, art and even sports. All of it embodies who Americans are today.

And when the temperature changes to a bit cooler outside, it’s a great time to focus on Early American history events that happened in fall.

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Grouping events by season is another way to have your middle or high school student remember things.

Look at these 10 Early American history events that happened in fall, which homeschool middle or high School kids can learn about.

10 Early American History Events that Happened in Fall

1565

ONE/ September 8, 1565. Spanish naval officer Pedro Menendez de Aviles founds St. Augustine, in northern Florida, the first permanent European colony in America.

1620

TWO/ November 21, 1620. The Mayflower Compact was signed aboard ship on November 11, 1620 by the Pilgrims.

They used the Julian calendar, also known as Old Style dates, which, at that time, was ten days behind the Gregorian calendar. Signing the covenant were 41 of the ship’s 101 passengers while the Mayflower was anchored in what is now Provincetown Harbor within the hook at the northern tip of Cape Cod.

1630

THREE/ September 30, 1630. John Billington, a Pilgrim, is hanged for murder. He is the first criminal to suffer capital punishment in the American colonies.

1636

FOUR/ October 28, 1636. Harvard College, the first college in America, is founded in a single frame house and college yard at Cambridge, Massachusetts, for the purpose of educating young men for the Puritan clergy.

1637

FIVE/ November 7, 1637. Anne Hutchinson is banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony for preaching her belief that faith, not strict adherence to any body of orthodox theology, is sufficient for salvation.

1641

SIX/ October, 1641. The first American patent is issued by the Massachusetts Bay Colony to Samuel Winslow for a salt-making process.

Look at a few of these hands-on projects from Home School in the Woods which I love and make great additions to these topics.

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1734

SEVEN/ October, 1734. John Peter Zenger, publisher of the New York Weekly Journal is arrested for seditious libel when he prints criticism of Governor William Cosby.

Andrew Hamilton defends him at trial in 1735 and secures his acquittal on the grounds that the truth can never be deemed libelous. The decision is a milestone in the principal of freedom of the press.

1763

EIGHT/ October, 1763. King George III issues a proclamation setting the Appalachian Mountains as the western limit of English settlement hoping to end a war between English colonists and Native Americans by stopping white invasion onto Native American lands.

This proclamation of 1763 brings temporary peace among some Native Americans but frontier settlers are outrages. Many historians see this defiance as the seed of the American Revolution.

1776

NINE/ September 9, 1776. The name “United States of America” is officially created by the Continental Congress.

1783

TEN/ September 3, 1783. British and American negotiators (including Benjamin Franklin, John Jay, John Adams and Henry Laurens) conclude the Treaty of Paris, ending the American Revolution and securing American Independence.

Don’t make the study of fun facts boring. Read about them, cover them and research if your student wants to or simply read them and move on.

Each event though makes for a great unit study and the best part is that they are easy to remember because they all happened in the fall.

Look at these other fall posts:

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World War II Homeschool History: Life During the War & Pearl Harbor Minibook

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I have World War II homeschool history life during the war and Pearl Harbor.

Making ration cakes wasn’t the only activity we have done to study about the affects of rationing during our World War II homeschool history unit study.

The other thing I did was to use something unique we have in our family to help Tiny understand what his great-grandparents went through during wartime.

Making ration cakes wasn’t the only activity we have done to study about the affects of rationing during our World War II homeschool history unit study. The other thing I did was to use something unique we have in our family to help Tiny understand what his great-grandparents went through during wartime. Grab these free minibooks: Life During the War & Pearl Harbor | Tina's Dynamic Homeschool Plus.
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Besides, making history relevant is key to making it captivating. So I ask my mom to dig out the couple of World War II ration books from Tiny’s great-grandfather, which has been passed down to her.

After reading them and looking through the old books, Tiny was able to understand better what it meant to ration and to live during that lifetime.

Inspired by looking over a part of our family’s history though that time period, I created two minibooks for Tiny.

One minibook, which is Life During the War gives your child a place to write about life during wartime. The other minibook, which is about Pearl Harbor gives a few quick facts about it.

Both books are also done in cursive as I’m always looking for ways for Tiny to keep his cursive reading skills up and too this is a middle and high school level unit study.

More World War II Unit Study Hands-on Activities

The more the world goes digital and tries to tell me that we don’t need to read and write cursive, the more fixated I get on being sure my kids and your kids keep that skill alive. (okay, just had to say).

But back to what I saying, like most all of my minibooks, each book comes with two choices. Use the book premade with a few facts or use the blank book where your child adds his own.

Because we do our unit study and lapbooks too as we plod along, I never have lapbooks in one giant download.

I also do it this way so that you can grab just the parts you need instead of downloading minibooks you may not need.

World War II lapbook and homeschool history unit study.

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World War II Hands-On History – Make Ration Cakes

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Continuing on with our War War II hands-on history unit study, we always manage to find a recipe or two that tastes pretty good and making ration cakes today was no exception.

Tiny liked the taste of these spice cakes and grew to appreciate war time cooking.

However, he did say the cakes were an acquired taste. This recipe is butter-free, milk-free, egg-free and white sugar-free and helped him to appreciate to make do with what you had on hand to cook with.

World War II Hands-On History. Make Ration Cakes @ Tina's Dynamic Homeschool Plus

The recipe comes from the Great World War II Projects You Can Build Yourself book, which we are growing to love.

Hands-on History

Look at this pretty easy list of things you probably have in your house.

1. How to make World War II Ration Cakes @ Tina's Dynamic Homeschool Plus
2 cups all-purpose flour
1 cup raisins
1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp ground cinnamon
1 tsp ground allspice
powdered sugar for dusting
Mixing bowl		3/4 cup honey
1 1/4 cup water
3 T. shortening like Crisco
1 1/4 tsp baking soda
1 tsp baking powder
12 paper cup liners/12 cup cupcake pan
Sauce pan

Preheat your oven to 325 degrees.

2. How to make World War II Ration Cakes @ Tina's Dynamic Homeschool Plus

First combine the honey, water, shortening, spices, salt and raisins in the sauce pan.  Heat on stove and bring to a boil for 5 minutes. Then turn off and let the mixture cool.

3. How to make World War II Ration Cakes @ Tina's Dynamic Homeschool Plus

In a mixing bowl, combine the rest of the ingredients, which are the flour, baking soda and baking powder. Mix it and you can sift the flour mixture for extra lightness, but Tiny didn’t. He just threw it all together.

4. How to make World War II Ration Cakes @ Tina's Dynamic Homeschool Plus

Then pour the cool liquid into the bowl and mix, but don’t overstir. Then pour the batter into cupcake liners and bake for 20 minutes or until the tops are golden brown.

5. How to make World War II Ration Cakes @ Tina's Dynamic Homeschool Plus

Next, Tiny sprinkles some powdered sugar on the top. The cakes were just perfect and helped us appreciate time period cooking.

Because we do our unit study and lapbooks too as we plod along, I never have lapbooks in one giant download.

I also do it this way so that you can grab just the parts you need instead of downloading minibooks you may not need.

More World War II Unit Study Hands-on Activities

World War II Hands-On History - Make Ration Cakes
World War II Hands-On History - Make Ration Cakes
World War II Hands-On History - Make Ration Cakes
World War II Hands-On History - Make Ration Cakes
World War II Hands-On History - Make Ration Cakes
World War II Hands-On History - Make Ration Cakes
World War II lapbook and homeschool history unit study.

How to Get the Free World War II Unit Lapbook

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