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Learning American History through the Life of Wyatt Earp Part 2

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Continuing on with our learning American history, I have some hands-on history today. Also, look at Free American History Lapbook The Old West Through the Life of Wyatt Earp.

Hands-on history as we are learning American history through the life of Wyatt Earp, we did one more easy peazy activity for our unit study opening.

Learning American History through the Life of Wyatt Earp Part 2

We made soap.

Now I would have loved to have made one of these cutesy, full of fragrance, pink heart shaped soaps, but I have never been able to get one of my boys to make soap like that.

American History through the Life of Wyatt Earp

So I have to settle for the science of making home made soap, which is to make suds.

Learning American History through the Life of Wyatt Earp Part 2
Learning American History through the Life of Wyatt Earp Part 2

Too, this recipe calls for baking soda but baking soda is not plentiful here in Ecuador because they won’t sell it.  It’s almost like it’s banned here in this country.

I had to substitute with baking powder.

We did learn some chemistry with this because we learned we can substitute baking powder for baking soda but you can’t substitute baking soda when you need baking powder.

Easy ingredients for making soap.

1/4 cup salad oil. I just used what I had.
1/4 quarter cup baking soda. We had to substitute with 3x the amount of baking soda.
Glass jar.

Add oil and soda to a pan and warm it on low heat and stir.

When it thickens, remove from heat and let it cool.  Then add 1 tablespoon of mixture with 2 cups of hot tap water in the jar.

Learning American History through the Life of Wyatt Earp Part 2
Learning American History through the Life of Wyatt Earp Part 2

Shake until you see suds.

Though it may seem like simple science, it was good for Tiny to understand how the things we take for granted today like bubbles and suds just did not exist then.

Of course this would be even more meaningful if we had ashes, but then again reading about making soap in the olden days was a good reading assignment to do on his own.

Next, we were ready to start our unit study so I decided to use a history magazine as our spine.

As a side note, one of my very favorite history magazines, which was Learning through History that we used a lot on our unit studies, stopped printing issues.

I have most of the issues but after they stopped printing, I started receiving another subscription from History Magazine, though it wasn’t for kids. 

HANDS-ON HISTORY FOR KIDS

I do have to look it over when we get it, but because the boys were getting older, I wanted something that wasn’t just bare bones history.

Learning American History through the Life of Wyatt Earp Part 2

So for this unit study we are using one of the articles out of our history magazine about Wyatt Earp.

Also because it is for adults, it helps to nurture a love of history for kids who are advanced in reading too.

After he read from the magazine, I had a website that I wanted us to look at together because it is the direction we needed to go in, which is to add some science and a bit of geography.

Though Wyatt Earp is known for his famous gun fight at the OK Corral, he lived most of his life traveling and living in the desert and Southwest area as a lawman.

Features of the SW US - Wyatt Earp Unit Study @ Tinas Dynamic Homeschool Plus

Check out this website Wyatt Earp Desert Lawman, which talks about Earp living most of his life in the deserts of the Southwest.

Then, even though we are finished with our science book for the year,  I love to use free resources I already have to build my unit studies.

So I knew that I had a free science magazine that talked about animals and ecosystems of the Southwest.

I shared that link with you too before, which is Free Science Magazines and the science magazine is Animals and Ecosystems of the Southwestern United States.

Be sure you download it because your child will need it to fill in the minibooks about the desert.

Features of the SW US - Wyatt Earp Unit Study minibook @ Tinas Dynamic Homeschool Plus
Features of the SW US - Wyatt Earp Unit Study Triple Fold Book @ Tinas Dynamic Homeschool Plus

One book is a minibook about the states that make up the Southwestern U.S. and the second book is a triple fold book.

On the triple fold book, your child lists 8 features of the Southwestern U.S.

Learning American History through the Life of Wyatt Earp. Learn about American Deserts @ Tina's Dynamic Homeschool Plus

Though hot temperatures and cacti come to mind, Tiny found that a few other things are characteristic of this area of the United States.

Having kicked off our unit study with some fun and easy hands-on ideas, he is ready to start doing a few printables to start building our lapbook.

MORE ACTIVITIES FOR LEARNING ABOUT WYATT EARP AND THE COWBOYS

Learning American History through the Life of Wyatt Earp Part 2
Learning American History through the Life of Wyatt Earp Part 2
Learning American History through the Life of Wyatt Earp Part 2
Learning American History through the Life of Wyatt Earp Part 2
Learning American History through the Life of Wyatt Earp Part 2
Learning American History through the Life of Wyatt Earp Part 2
Learning American History through the Life of Wyatt Earp Part 2

HOW TO GET THE FREE WYATT EARP LAPBOOK, NOTEBOOKING PAGES & BOARD GAME

Update: The lapbook is now complete. Download all the freebies below.

  • Art cards by Frederic Remington about Wyatt Earp
  • Cover pages for the outside of notebooking pages 1800s and 1900s. Look here how to fold ordinary worksheets to interactive minibooks.
  • 8 Features of the SW United States
  • The 4 Southwestern states
  • American History during the Life of Wyatt Earp 1800s notebooking page
  • American History during the Life of Wyatt Earp 1900s notebooking pages
  • Who was Wyatt Earp
  • Who were the Cowboys
  • Who Was Doc Holliday
  • Gunfight at the O.K. Corral Tombstone, Arizona – About Tombstone – Ed Schieffelin
  • Printable Game with Game Pieces – The Most Famous Shoot Out – Gunfight at O.K. Corral

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Learning American History through the Life of Wyatt Earp Hands-on Activities

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Learning American history through the life of Wyatt Earp, an American lawman is another fun way to learn American history. Also, look at Free American History Lapbook The Old West Through the Life of Wyatt Earp.

History comes alive when you focus on the dramatic life of an American figure or exciting event.

Learning American History through the Life of Wyatt Earp @ Tina's Dynamic Homeschool Plus

When I need to cover American history, the boys always get to decide the person or event.

Whether they choose to cover the FBI in high school or the gunfight at the OK Corral, I can always make the time period come alive.

One way I have learned to round out a unit study and make it more meaningful is to study the world at the time the person was living or the event was happening.

American History through the Eyes of an American Lawman

By steering Tiny to events or persons in a time period we need to focus on, it’s a win-win. 

He gets to choose a person or event that piqued his curiosity and the teacher in me is satisfied because I know he is exposed to a time period we need to cover.

Too, beginnings are important in unit studies. 

Remember to make the beginning of your unit study lively. 

I added a few details that will lead us into hands-on activity first and then reading will come second.

Look at these few details.

  • Wyatt Earp was born in 1848 and died in 1929;
  • Tombstone is close to the Mexican border in Arizona;
  • Wyatt Earp wanted to join the American Civil War but his dad wouldn’t let him; and
  • Wyatt Earp made a name for himself in postwar Kansas as a lawman.

What a great time period to focus on for modern American history.

Right away, I know that the American Civil War happened during his life time so I could tie in the Civil War if we hadn’t studied it before.

However, because we have covered the American Civil War twice and a did a lapbook both times, I think we are going to head another direction by getting the flavor of the world at that time.

Being the youngest child, Tiny was too young for some of the hands-on activities we did during the time period of the late 1800s when we studied the Civil War twice.

Another thing about Tiny though is that he is different from my other two sons because he doesn’t care the age of many hands-on activities. 

The kid just loves all of it.  If it’s a hands-on activity he is in.

Hands-On History

That combination actually makes for a great kid to homeschool because he just loves activities.

So today, we had a pioneer day. 

We spent the whole morning doing fun and easy hands-on activities that families would have done during the time Wyatt Earp lived.

Hardtack – Staple of the American Civil War

Because the Civil War was going on when Earp was a boy, we started off making hardtack, which was eaten during the Civil War.

You probably have heard of the flat biscuit like staple of the Civil War.

Two ingredients make it easy to make.

  • 1 cup of water
  • 2 cups of flour
Learning American History through the Life of Wyatt Earp Hands-on Activities
Learning American History through the Life of Wyatt Earp Hands-on Activities

After mixing the flour and water, Tiny turned it out onto the counter.

Learning American History through the Life of Wyatt Earp Hands-on Activities
Learning American History through the Life of Wyatt Earp Hands-on Activities

Yes, he used a plastic bottle to flatten the dough. (A rolling pin would be nice to use but since we are still building up our kitchen supplies here in Ecuador, a clean plastic bottle worked just fine.) 

You want it about a 1/4 inch or thin as we learned.  Thin is better.

Learning American History through the Life of Wyatt Earp Hands-on Activities
Learning American History through the Life of Wyatt Earp Hands-on Activities

He used a fork to poke holes in it. 

We did read somewhere that the original hardback had 13 holes in it to represent the 13 original colonies.

Then you know I told you we don’t have an oven, but we do have a toaster over.

So we baked the hardtack for about 30 minutes on 400 degrees in a glass pyrex container.

Learning American History through the Life of Wyatt Earp Hands-on Activities

It actually came out pretty good tasting when it was warm. We were surprised.

Of course I know they can probably break your teeth if you wait to try one longer, but it was a fun activity to learn about what could be made to eat with just a few ingredients.

Pioneer Cooking – Make Your Own Butter

Then we had to have some fresh butter on those warm hardtack crackers.  So we started that activity too.

Again, I like this activity to explore the times of the pioneers because these ingredients I keep on hand here at the house.

The two ingredients are:

  • heavy cream
  • salt (if you choose too)

You also need a glass jar, which we had too.

Learning American History through the Life of Wyatt Earp Hands-on Activities
Learning American History through the Life of Wyatt Earp Hands-on Activities

I filled the jar about half-way up with the cream and let it sit at room temperature while we started the hardtack.

The hardest part to this project is the shaking. After filling the jar, shake….Make butter 3 Make butter 4

and shake it some more ……. and shake it some more all over the house.

Learning American History through the Life of Wyatt Earp Hands-on Activities
Learning American History through the Life of Wyatt Earp Hands-on Activities

We took turns shaking the jar for about 45 minutes before we saw results. 

You can see it in the picture where the butter started separating from the soured milk.

So we poured out the soured milk and added tap water in the jar to rinse the butter. We shook some more to rinse it and poured off the water.

Learning American History through the Life of Wyatt Earp Hands-on Activities

Tiny added some salt and taaaa – daaa, we had some sweet butter.

Here is our warm hardtack and sweet butter.

Learning American History through the Life of Wyatt Earp Hands-on Activities

And oh yes, it was delicious and a fun way to get the flavor (pun intended, corny, I know) of the time period that Wyatt Earp lived in.

Those aren’t the only activities we did though.  I’ll share our next easy hands-on activity we did, the history magazine we will be using for this unit study and the lapbook printables will be coming soon.

Look at a few of these website that have some great ideas for more pioneer living activities.

  • Include the littles with this unit for middle school by making a hand print horse, cow collage, animal cracker ranch scene or yarn doll to name a few from Kids Activities.
  • Make some taffy if you have some middle school kids.
  • Make hand dipped candles if you have middle school kids.
  • A Book in Time is chock full of ideas for each time period. Depending on the age of your child, he can make a covered wagon, log cabin or learn about cotton, which was a huge commodity during this time period.

Check out these resources for the American West and Wyatt Earp

HOW TO GET THE FREE WYATT EARP LAPBOOK, NOTEBOOKING PAGES & BOARD GAME

Update: The lapbook is now complete. Download all the freebies below.

  • Art cards by Frederic Remington about Wyatt Earp
  • Cover pages for the outside of notebooking pages 1800s and 1900s. Look here how to fold ordinary worksheets to interactive minibooks.
  • 8 Features of the SW United States
  • The 4 Southwestern states
  • American History during the Life of Wyatt Earp 1800s notebooking page
  • American History during the Life of Wyatt Earp 1900s notebooking pages
  • Who was Wyatt Earp
  • Who were the Cowboys
  • Who Was Doc Holliday
  • Gunfight at the O.K. Corral Tombstone, Arizona – About Tombstone – Ed Schieffelin
  • Printable Game with Game Pieces – The Most Famous Shoot Out – Gunfight at O.K. Corral

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2) Grab the freebie now.

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Ancient Egypt Homeschool Unit Study – Hands-on and FUN!

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I was given a free copy of Project Passport: Ancient Egypt and I was paid for my time. Compensated for my time does not mean paid off.  ALL opinions are my own and for sure I will always tell you what is on my mind. Your experience may vary. When I do accept a review it’s because I am excited to tell you about it. Read my full disclosure here.

History has been anything but boring for us because I have been determined to keep it hands-on. I have to admit though it is not always easy. When I find homeschool history programs like Project Passport: Ancient Egypt from Home School in the Woods that fits what I think history should look like, I am always delighted to share about it.

Your kids will love this Hands-on Ancient Egypt Unit Study at Tina's Dynamic Homeschool Plus

Hands-on Homeschool Ancient Egypt History

Though we are history lovers in our home, I know that teaching Ancient Egypt history can be quite boring if you don’t find the right resource.

Passport Project Ancient Egypt Interactive and Hands-on Unit Study @ Tina's Dynamic Homeschool PlusUsing Project Passport: Ancient Egypt from Home School in the Woods over the past few weeks has been by far the best curriculum we have used for studying about Ancient Egypt.

Look at some of these things that makes us swoon over this curriculum.

  • Hands-on activities like mapping Upper and Lower Egypt, creating post cards and preparing a newspaper and recipes.
  • It means a lot to me to have high quality clip art and not babyish looking quality printables for middle school kids.  The printables are high quality and are all labeled so that you can match them to the correct projects.
  • There are a variety of activities to choose from to suit any learning style.  Tiny is my strongest auditory learner of all of my boys and he really was engaged by the beautiful sounding Mp3s like Touring Down the Nile, Interview with an Embalmer and Building a Pyramid.  I haven’t really used the curriculum the way they suggested by picking and choosing.  We tried to cram it all in because each project sounded as fun as the next one. We just had to taste a bit of everything. Along with creating minibooks, we created a passport, created a luggage folder (so cute), a travel itinerary, prepared the scrapbook of sights and snapshots of moments in history (timeline).
  • It’s all laid out Stop by Stop. Even the text you need to read for each lesson is included. This makes it easy to pick up and go when you are short on time.
  • The teacher’s keys are very helpful and Tiny was able to check his work on his own. I love that part.
  • I REALLY appreciate a scope and sequence being provided so that I can plan or see what will be covered. I have to create objectives and lesson plan and the teacher in me finds this part extremely helpful.

Passport Project Ancient Egypt Interactive and Hands-on Unit Study @ Tina's Dynamic Homeschool Plus

Look at some of these things that you will want to know before you use Project Passport: Ancient Egypt.

  • Details are important to history when you want to analyze them.  Topics are covered with an eye for details and not broad strokes.  If you want details, then it’s a great fit.
  • It requires a good amount of time for start up because you will want to take time reading through all the directions for both laying out the projects and how to print them.  The payoff is rewarding but don’t look at speeding through the set up process.  This is a savor the time curriculum.
  • Like high quality printables should be, you will want to use high quality materials like cardstock and color printables.  You can print gray scale too and have the option to color. I think it’s always an advantage to have both options of coloring or gray scale printing though.  Because this curriculum is sold by CD or downloads, your printer will be busy.
  • Though I thrive in organization, having four sub-folders to navigate between might seem overwhelming.  It took me a few minutes to figure out that the Itineraries folder in the PDFs sub-folder was the place that I needed to visit at each Stop.  It has the instructions for the activities for each stop.  There are a total 25 Stops.
  • It is important to remember that the printables cannot be shrunk, which a lot of printers do. If you do this, like the instructions specifically mentions, it throws off all the printables. An important detail that is easy to forget when you start printing at each Stop. Avoid precious ink and high quality paper by minding the details on each page.

Like a comprehensive unit study should be, you will want to let go of whatever else you are studying about so that your children can enjoy the creative writing, arts and geography weaved throughout each Stop.

Passport Project Ancient Egypt Interactive and Hands-on Unit Study @ Tina's Dynamic Homeschool PlusTiny is just about out of the dress up stage but he fondly remembers our hands-on activities with Ancient Egypt  (fun with cartouche and Lego pyramid) as we have used Home School in the Woods products through the years.

With this unit study, my focus was on reading the content and listening to the MP3s to prepare him for high school.

Of course, doing as many of the other hands-on activities that we could cram in is also my objective.

Ancient Egypt Unit Study 8 @ Tina's Dynamic Homeschool Plus

Because I couldn’t wait to share with you about how this unit study sparks a love for learning about Ancient Egypt and because of my love for pictures too, look at my first post Ancient Egypt and look at my second one Ancient Egypt Unit Study Part 2.

I have used many laid out unit studies.  Too, you know I have created my own lapbook printables because it has been hard to find history curriculum that has all the things I demand, which are detailed content, pristine clip art, high quality printables, an overflowing amount of hands-on activities and that can be used with multiple ages.

Project Passport: Ancient Egypt receives my highest praise and I can’t wait to grab the other projects in this series.

Thank You Home School in the Woods for the obvious time, care and detail that went into this curriculum. I am proud to be a reviewer of such an amazing product.

 Ancient History Series

Company Name: Home School in the Woods Publishing
Website: Home School in the Woods
Product Name: Project Passport: Ancient Egypt
Grades: 3rd to 8th, but I found that it could be tweaked up or down because of the numerous activities. Check out their scope and sequence to see the events
Type of Format: Cd or Download
Religious perspective but can be tweaked for a more secular version if you choose.

Passport Project Ancient Egypt Interactive and Hands-on Unit Study @ Tina's Dynamic Homeschool Plus

You’ll love these other hands-on history for studying about Ancient Egypt:

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Ancient Egypt Unit Study Part 2 – Best Hands-on Homeschool Ideas

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One reason I chose to use Ancient Egypt Passport Project from Home School in the Woods is because of the amount of hands-on history that it has.

Today, I am sharing Ancient Egypt Unit Study Part 2 because I want to be sure you to get see wayyy more pictures before I finish this study.

Ancient Egypt is a great civilization to study for Ancient History. Your kids will love this hands-on Ancient Egypt history study with many activities for multiple ages to choose from. CLICK HERE!

I know I am not using it like suggested meaning you pick and choose what you like to do. That would be too balanced for me.

I tend to be over board when it comes to history and we like sampling a little bit of it all. Don’t do like me.

We are trying to squeeze in every bit of the activities because we can’t wait to make the next activity and also I am visually obsessed so I wanted to be sure you get tons of pictures for this unit study.

Today, we played with paper dolls.

Okay, don’t tell Tiny I said that because it was almost an outright mutiny when I showed him what we were going to do next.Ancient Egypt Figures 1

Tiny was almost not going to do these fun Egyptian Figures, but it ended up being such a cool project I am glad we did them.

Homeschool History and Crafts Obsessed

Not only did we enjoy the coloring, but he enjoyed reading about what Egyptians, both adults and kids wore back then.Ancient Egypt Figures 2The coolest part is that after using an exacto knife on the paper figures, the clothing can be changed out by sticking tabs from the pieces into the holes or slits cut on the figures.

After a bit of time, he really got into changing out the pieces.

One thing that is so unique was that there were templates to use to cut out actual fabric that can be glued onto the figures.

I thought how fun it would be if you had a girl but that was Tiny’s limit.  He wasn’t going to make templates out of material.Ancient Egypt Figures 3The finished looking project is a fun way to learn about time period clothing. He was pleased with his finished product.Ancient Egypt Figures 4Not only is all the reading you need included with this unit study, which I like because you know the only books I can get here in Ecuador are in Spanish, but then the review of the material is illustrated in different ways like these pop out books.Ancient Egypt Popup 1We read about the social system in Ancient Egypt.

Then Tiny glued the text on each mini pop out book to show each level in the social system.Ancient Egypt Popup 2Let’s just face it, interacting with mini pop up books are certainly way more fun to handle and review material.

After he made the minibooks, I helped him glue them on the page showing he social pyramid.

Tell me which kid wouldn’t prefer to review material from a page like this instead of a worksheet?Social PyramidThen one more project I wanted to show you was the pocket made for souvenirs.Souvenir 1The pages are instructions for dressing up like an Egyptian boy or girl.Souvenir 2There are more projects we are working on as we make our way through this hands-on unit study.

Have you ever tried any of the history unit studies from Home School in the Woods? Do you have any favorites?

Ancient Egypt is a great civilization to study for Ancient History. Your kids will love this hands-on Ancient Egypt history study with many activities for multiple ages to choose from. CLICK HERE!

Look at the other parts we did:

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Ancient Egypt Unit Study – Trip through Ancient History

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I am so tickled and excited about starting our Ancient Egypt Passport Project from Home School in the Woods that I can’t wait until the review to share all what we are doing.

We will be using this curriculum over the next month or so and you know I am so visual that I have to share a ton of pictures with you before I do a final review.  I know you like pictures too.

One of the reasons I was so giddy to get my hands on this was because of all the activities and projects.  We couldn’t wait to get started.

Take a trip through history and discover cultures at another era of time with hands-on projects and activities that drive the lessons home in a fun way! You’ll love this Ancient Egypt Hands-on Homeschool Unit Study. CLICK HERE to get it!

My initial thought on this is that it does require a good amount of time for set up.  I have never been afraid of a bit of hard work in the beginning for a nice payoff in the long run.

Too, once we made the passport and luggage (so stinkin’ fun) we can use it for all the other project passport studies.

One thing I want to be sure you know when you start using this is to read carefully all the notes provided.

They are worth the time reading so that you don’t make mistakes in printing. 

For example, I appreciated the very fine point of printing “actual size” and not shrinking the pages because the measurements will be off on all projects.

Just be sure you read all the details and take your time.

Hands-On History Ancient Egypt

So the first couple of lessons, which are called Stops (there are 25 Stops total), is where a lot of the prep work is done. We have done 3 STOPS and stopped so that we could catch up on some of the fun projects.

Ancient Egypt Unit Study 3 @ Tina's Dynamic Homeschool Plus

We started by making the fun passport first.

Ancient Egypt Unit Study 5 @ Tina's Dynamic Homeschool Plus

All the templates you need to make each printable is with this download. It is the total package. 

Tiny wanted to use a photo for his passport where he was wearing his Ecuadorean hat. He is proud of that native hat.

He actually thought this was cool to make because when we got our passports for coming here to Ecuador, he learned a lot about visas and passports.Ancient Egypt Unit Study 6 @ Tina's Dynamic Homeschool Plus

Then next we worked on making the timeline called “Snapshots Moments in History”. This baby has 8 pages plus 4 pages of timeline figures and extra pages for decorating. 

You can choose to do the pages notebook style or accordion style.

Ancient Egypt Unit Study 1 @ Tina's Dynamic Homeschool Plus Ancient Egypt Unit Study 2 @ Tina's Dynamic Homeschool Plus

Since we love lapbooks, we decided to go ahead and do the timeline accordion style.

It took a bit of time to cut each page and tape it, but now we have the timeline for the whole project and will be gluing our timeline figures as we go along at each Stop.

Homeschool History Based Activity Study

Ancient Egypt Unit Study 4 @ Tina's Dynamic Homeschool Plus

Then this luggage idea, complete with luggage tag is so creative.

Ancient Egypt Unit Study 7 @ Tina's Dynamic Homeschool Plus

Just a heads up, my luggage looks a bit different than what the instructions said.  You will be able to create yours like the model one shown in the download because you probably live near a Wal-mart.

Since everything is not easy to find here in Ecuador, I had to help Tiny create something just a bit different.

First, I couldn’t find a file folder with pockets and brads. I went to 7 stores and they just don’t have that here in Ecuador.

So we made our own pockets and instead of using the brads like the instructions said, we used a file fastener.

If you make it and you live near civilization, it won’t take you near as long as it did for us to make our luggage.

We loved making it though and Tiny even wanted to glue some luggage stickers that we found on the internet onto the outside. It came out so cute.

Inside we store the travel log pages, which Tiny will write on at the end of our journey.

We can store other items in the pockets too.

Ancient Egypt Unit Study 8 @ Tina's Dynamic Homeschool Plus

Then lastly we made our beginning scrap book called Scrapbook of Sights.

The instructions called for a clear outside pocket and a 3 ring binder.  Guess what?

They don’t have clear outside pocket binders here and there are only 2 ring binders used here in Ecuador like the picture shown above.  Again, your final product will look a bit different than mine does here.

This wasn’t such a big deal though because we just glued the cover page onto the outside and can use a 2 ring binder.

This binder is for storing the map we did about Upper and Lower Egypt and it will store our timeline as we add “snapshots” of our trip.

Too, we listened to our first audio as we headed down the Nile River.

I really like this part to this curriculum because out of all of my boys, Tiny is the strongest audio learner and he just curled up beside as we listened to this audio tour complete with sound effects. So much fun.

You see, there is no way I will be able to get this all in one blog post because there is way too many wonderful things to tell you about this project.

I will update you as we move along through a few more Stops and do more of the projects.

Do you have plans for an upcoming unit study on Ancient Egypt?

 

Take a trip through history and discover cultures at another era of time with hands-on projects and activities that drive the lessons home in a fun way! You’ll love this Ancient Egypt Hands-on Homeschool Unit Study. CLICK HERE to get it!

You’ll love the other parts to this unit study:

Hugs and love ya,