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By Amy Pack, Homeschool in the Woods
 The
Time Travelers Colonial Life Unit Study on CD-ROM has 25 lessons for a 5 to 10
week study. It covers: America’s Colonies Begin, The Colonial Home, Clothing,
Food, Family Life, School, Faith in the Colonies, Villages & Cities, Health &
Medicine, Artisans, Crime & Punishment, Plantations & Slavery, Pleasures &
Pastimes, and Holidays.
Written text is included with choices of activities for each lesson. Activities
in Colonial Life include:
Creative Writing
Colonial Recipes
Factfile Cards
File Folder Game
Science Experiments
Notebook Timeline
Penmanship Pages
Notebooking Activities
Three-dimensional Projects such as a Rope Bed with Straw Tick, Colonial Home
Dioramas, and much more!
Authentic Colonial Crafts such as Reverse Painting, Weaving, a Cross-Stitch
Sampler, Punch Tin, Stenciling, Quilling, a Pine Needle Pillow, and
Silhouette Art, to name a few!
10 Lap Book Projects, including pop-ups, layered books, etc.
And a final "Colonial Spree" 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 the 50 activities. You can pick and choose projects
for your family and the schedule allows for "project days."
Also included are teacher helps, resource lists, teacher
keys, and a "guide-at-a-glance" that allows the teacher to see the whole
schedule of upcoming topics and projects on one page. You can print out a
notebook cover to slip into the clear cover of your separately purchased 3-ring
binder. The art is provided both in color and in black and white for the student
to color in.
For grades 3 to 8
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Time
Travelers New World Explorers contains 25 lessons that cover: Reasons for
Exploration, A Sailor's Life, Ships, Navigation, 23 Explorer Profiles, Pirates,
and more! Depending on the depth of the study, you can take 5 to 10 weeks to
complete this unit.
