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Top 10 Free Popular Homeschool History Printables

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Today, I wanted to share with you what my readers love here when it comes to history printables. Be sure you have grabbed all of these top 10 free popular homeschool history printables.

With all the free printables I have created, the number one spot goes to the What is History minibook on the Ancient Civilization Unit Study page.

Top 10 Popular Free History Printables @ Tina's Dynamic Homeschool Plus

The number two spot or printable is ironically on the same page, Ancient Civilization Unit Study and it is the free Mesopotamia Cover sheet.

Essential Homeschool History Printables

Fast forward quite a few years and the third spot is my Lewis and Clark Unit Study and Lapbook. (Note: This was free for a limited time.)

Still moving forward to modern history, you are really loving the Titanic timeline printable, which came in fourth place.

In fifth place, we go back in time again and this time the Ancient Greece Geography minibook got fifth place.

Taking sixth place is Hammurabi from Babylon, which is another printable from the ancients on the Ancient Civilization Unit Study .

Coming in at seventh place, eighth and ninth place are all printables from my Egypt unit study which too are all from the Ancient Civilization Unit Study .

Egypt Map
Egypt  Famous Queens
Egypt Pharoahs and Queens Front Page

Finally, rounding out the top 10 popular history printables on my site is the Westward Expansion timeline on my Westward Ho Unit study and Lapbook.

I love getting a peek into what rocks your homeschool world, but more than anything it shows me what you use and love here so that I can continue adding more history printables for you.

Did your favorites make the list? What are you favorite homeschool history printables here? What would you like to see more of? (ok, it doesn’t hurt to ask)

Check out these other articles:
How to Use a History Spine to Build Your Study of History
8 Ways to Teach Homeschool History Other Than Chronologically.
How to Teach History in 14 Lessons (From Daunting to Doable)

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Learn About Leap Year Free Notebooking Page & Resources

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Learning about Leap Year free notebooking Page

Seizing the moment or in this case the year, the leap year, we took a rabbit trail off our unit study to look up a few websites and read about the leap year. Today, in learn about leap year free notebooking page, I rounded up a few websites to learn about why a leap year was started.

Can you believe poof in 4 years how your homeschool and kids will change? Anyway, the subject this month is too cool to pass over, so we took a day today to dig in and learn about it.

Look at few facts to think about or research:

    • February normally has 28 days.
    • Every fourth year, February has 29 days.
    • The fourth year is called a Leap Year.
    • When did the practice of adding leap year begin?
    • What is significant about 1582?
    • How do you keep track of your birth day if you’re born on February 29?
    • What are the differences between the Gregorian and Julian calendars and why it matters?

Look at these free downloads and background information:

Download the Free Leap Year Notebooking Page!

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Beautiful Human Body Lapbook and Fun Unit Study

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I have a free human body unit study. Also, I have this Human Body Crafts page for more hands-on ideas.

Taa, daa. It’s here. The completed human body lapbook. Have you been following along as we did our huge human body lapbook and unit study?

We have had a ton of fun with our human body unit study and today, I want to give you one more minibook about the eye and some clip art to go on the outside of the book.

Beautiful Human Body Lapbook and Fun Unit Study

First, did you notice we turned this lapbook landscape?

Human Body Lapbook

The human body lapbook was free for a limited time.

Human Body Lapbook @ Tina's Dynamic Homeschool Plus
Human Body Lapbook @ Tina's Dynamic Homeschool Plus

It was so big and we used a legal size file folder too. So we added all the books we did inside and the pictures above will help you to see where we placed our books.

Of course, like I always say, you can use as many of mine as you want to and mix and match other things you want so that the lapbook reflects what you want to teach your kids.

That is one reason I also share my minibooks separately. Sometimes you want to mix and match.

Too, we added one more picture, which is a visual labeling the different parts of the eye and we simply glued that onto our page because this unit was getting big for us.

Tiny was ready to move on to another topic, but I wanted to be sure he was familiar with the parts of the eye too.

Don’t you just love it when you have way more activities to do and then just have to stop so that you can move on?

Eye book @ Tina's Dynamic Homeschool Plus

Also, I created several different pieces to decorate the outside of the lapbook flaps.

You can use any free color pages or use these three pieces of a cover page I have below.

Human Body Lapbook Title Choice of 3 @ Tina's Dynamic Homeschool PLus1
Human Body Lapbook Title Choice of 3 @ Tina's Dynamic Homeschool PLus
Human Body Lapbook Title Choice of 3 @ Tina's Dynamic Homeschool PLus3

Also, I included body clip art with the name of the organ above it.

Tiny wrote in the name of the organ, colored it and he cut them out to place on the outside of his lapbook. I include a few other decorative pieces to go on the outside flap of your lapbook.

I hope you love them and I hope you love this unit study as much as we have.

Body Parts clip art @ Tina's Dynamic Homeschool Plus
Beautiful Human Body Lapbook and Fun Unit Study

You can download the lapbook below.

More Human Body Unit Study Resources

Beautiful Human Body Lapbook and Fun Unit Study

What is blood hands on activity and free blood components minibook for a human body homeschool unit study @ Tina's Dynamic Homeschool Plus featured
Making Blood + Free What Are the Components of Blood Minibook
Homeschool Unit Study Human Body. Hands-on Activity 5. Edible Skin + Skin and Major Body Systems Minibook @ Tina's Dynamic Homeschool Plus Featured
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Mega List Free Resources for Human Body Homeschool Unit Study @ Tina's Dynamic Homeschool Plus featured
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Body Part Labeling and Human Skeleton Quiz Free Minibooks - Free Human Body Unit Study @ Tina's Dynamic Homeschool Plus FEATURED
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Human Body Unit Study. Rigid versus Flexible Bones Hands-on Activity @ Tina's Dynamic Homeschool Plus featured
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Human body unit study DIY Heart Pump @ Tina's Dynamic Homeschool Plus featured
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20 Human Body Books for Middle and High School Homeschooled Kids @ Tina's Dynamic Homeschool Plus featured
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Human body unit study DIY Stethoscope. Hands-on Learning @ Tina's Dynamic Homeschool Plus featured
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5 FREE and FUN Hands-on Science Activities for Homeschooled Kids

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I have 5 free and fun hands on science activities for homeschooled kids.

About this time of the year when fall and winter start setting in, I always like to share some freebies that give me a quick and free (always nice) way to change my pace.

Okay, okay, you know I love freebies and I always store them and organize them so I can share with you too.

5 FREE and FUN Hands-on Science Activities for Homeschooled Kids

With all the wonderful free educational things online sometimes it can take long to sift through the ones not worth messing with and the ones that can add enrichment to your day.

So I have done that for you today.

Since they are free too, they are great options to even just drop what you’re doing and switch gears.

Change is good and when change in curriculum is free, it’s pretty sweet.

Remember, download each guide and keep it because all the downloads are just full of fun things and ideas to do.

Besides, some of the freebies go away after a time.

So today, I have 5 free and fun science activities for homeschooled kids.

Okay, maybe I have a bit more as I started collecting.

5 FREE and FUN Hands-on Science Activities for Homeschooled Kids
5 FREE and FUN Hands-on Science Activities for Homeschooled Kids

1.Alaska Songbird Institute has a Creamer’s Field Student Activity Book. Free 28 page download.

This is a fun way to learn about birds with the little guys and for the kids that like to color.

Though it’s a guide for that area, it has several different birds in it like geese, ducks, birds of prey, cranes, chickadees and sparrows.

Each page has a color number code so you know what color to color the bird.

Just print off the guide, do with your children and enjoy.

5 FREE and FUN Hands-on Science Activities for Homeschooled Kids
5 FREE and FUN Hands-on Science Activities for Homeschooled Kids

2.This guide has already been archived so you want to be sure  to download it.

This next free 23 page .pdf download is intended to be used in a nature reserve, but it has so many excellent pages.

From habitats, to bird beak matching to dormouse and bird identification sheets, it is full of activities.

You can even scoot out doors to see if you can find some of these shrubs and trees in your area.

MORE FOURTH GRADE HOMESCHOOL CURRICULUM ACTIVITIES

It has a sheet for a newt lifecycle, hummingbird moth lifecycle and a bramble lifecycle.

From beginning to end, it’s a cool  download full of helpful and interesting tidbits.

5 FREE and FUN Hands-on Science Activities for Homeschooled Kids
5 FREE and FUN Hands-on Science Activities for Homeschooled Kids

3. Another favorite of mine is the New England Aquarium site.

Winter would not be complete without talking about penguins.

I have used the Penguin Teacher Guide and love it.

Why create any extra printables when they are all there for free and nice?

It includes information on the various penguin species, penguin anatomy, behavior, habitats and conservation.

5 FREE and FUN Hands-on Science Activities for Homeschooled Kids
5 FREE and FUN Hands-on Science Activities for Homeschooled Kids

4. The next freebies come from the Boston Harbor area.

Activities are for upper elementary to middle school age.

It has a lot of background information and a couple of ideas for hands on activities if you are studying about tides and plankton.

It has information about the rocky and sandy shores, tidal mudflats, salt marshes — and the creatures such as harbor porpoises and seals, fish and waterfowl, mussels and kelp that inhabit them — that are accessible from Boston Harbor, or any New England coastal area. 

5 FREE and FUN Hands-on Science Activities for Homeschooled Kids
5 FREE and FUN Hands-on Science Activities for Homeschooled Kids

5. Next are SEVERAL pdfs on this page from the Florida Sea Grant program.

There are about three .pdf downloads of plant name cards for studying about beach plant life and one about Coastal Plants.

They would go well in a pocket on a lapbook or a notebooking page.

5 FUN and FREE Hands-on Science Activities for Homeschooled Kids @ Tina's Dynamic Homeschool Plus

There is third grade curriculum about manatees and fourth grade curriculum about whales and dolphin.

I also love the 21 free food web cards on the Estuary Food Web Activity .

We haven’t done the edible estuary that is for grades K to Gray, (love) but we are eyeballing that one.

Grab the beach coloring book and the beach scavenger too off that page.

Also, there is a free curriculum about sea turtles for middle and high school.

Grab ’em and enjoy.

Also check out 50 Keep Me Homeschooling During the Long Cold Winter Days.
Middle School Homeschool Science 50 Free Spring Activities.
Easy Hands-On Science: Label the Atom Playdough Activity.

Hugs and love ya,

Free Homeschool History Cards – French and Indian War

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I created 6 free homeschool history cards about the French and Indian War. Also, look at my page French and Indian War 1754 -1763 for more ideas.

This way Tiny can decide if he wants to do a lapbook or not. 

Free Homeschool History Cards - French and Indian War

If he does not, then we will use the easy and interactive history cards to cut out, laminate and put on an “O” ring to memorize.

I created 6 easy cards.

Hands-on History

Again, remember there is no way to put all the details about the French and Indian War unit study that we did on these small cards.

The cards are to serve as a quick overview and your child can do this on his own or with a sibling.

Here are the five questions on the cards and the information on them so you can plan.

What was the French and Indian War?

  • The French and Indian War matched France and its American Indian allies against Britain and its colonists.
  • At stake was control of North America.
  • The French and Indian war took place between May 1756 to February 10, 1763.
  • The war took place in the Ohio Valley and it was also called the Seven Years War.

Free Homeschool History Cards

Who were some of the key players?

  • American Indians, Marquis Duquesne (dyoo-KAYN) was Governor of Canada, Robert Dinwiddie (DIN-wid-dee), the Governor of Virginia, a young George Washington, Major General Edward Braddock, Major General James Wolfe commander of the British fleet and Louis-Joseph de Montcalm commander of the forces in North America.

Name some key events leading to war.

  • The French found the American Indians trading with the British. Marquis Duquesne had orders to take control of the Ohio River Valley.
  • The French began building forts in the Ohio River Valley.
  • Washington was sent to deliver a message asking the French to leave. They refused.
  • The French captured the “Forks of the Ohio”.
  • Washington skirmished with the French.
  • The French attacked Washington at Fort Necessity.

More French and Indian War Activities for Kids

Give a few facts about young George Washington.

  • In spring 1753, a French officer led 2,000 soldiers into the Ohio Country to uphold France’s claim to the region.
  • They built forts.
  • In October 1753, Virginia officials sent George Washington to deliver a letter demanding that the French withdraw.
  • They declined to leave. Washington’s attempt, a year later, to force the French to depart sparked the first battle of the French and Indian War.

What were the consequences of war?

  • The 1763 Treaty of Paris formally ended the war.
  • France gave the British all of its land in North America east of the Mississippi River other than the city of New Orleans.
  • The French land west of the Mississippi, called Louisiana, was given to Spain.
  • The Spanish gave Florida to Britain and the British returned Havana.
  • The end result was that the French no longer had territory in North America.

Cut out the cards on the gray line, fold in half, glue and have fun learning few facts.

More History O Ring Free Cards

Free Homeschool History Cards. French and Indian War @ Tina's Dynamic Homeschool Plus

How to Get the Free French and Indian War History Cards

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