I sent it off to my kids emails and said to work on it for a competition! that wil spur them on, we have everything we need and they love this sort of thing!
Hi Tiffany, I have no curric suggestions...I am a do it yourself girl. But here are my middle ages links form when we did this. Enjoy http://www.milton.k12.vt.us/WebQuests/SChristensen/webquest-middle_ages.htm http://www.sundials.co.uk/types.htm http://www.sundials.co.uk/projects.htm http://home.freeuk.net/elloughton13/castle1.htm http://www.yourchildlearns.com/heraldry.htm http://hozho.homestead.com/medievalcenter.html http://coe.west.asu.edu/students/cimpullitti/resources.html http://www.proteacher.com/cgi-bin/outsidesite.cgi?id=16749&external=http://www.pearsonpublishing.co.uk/education/samples/S_493346.pdf&title=When%20Was%20the%20Medieval%20Period&original=http://www.proteacher.com/prosearch/search2.cgi?c}}nil{{s}}medieval{{n}}15 http://www.proteacher.com/prosearch/search2.cgi?c=nil&s=medieval&n=1 http://www.proteacher.com/cgi-bin/outsidesite.cgi?id=16686&external=http://users.netonecom.net/~clchoponis/outlines/medoutlines.html&title=Middle%20Ages%20Projects&original=http://www.proteacher.com/prosearch/search2.cgi?c}}nil{{s}}medieval{{n}}15 http://www.proteacher.com/cgi-bin/outsidesite.cgi?id=12129&external=http://teacherlink.ed.usu.edu/tlresources/units/Byrnes-S2000/Symons/bubonic.htm&title=Bubonic%20Plague%20Role%20Play&original=http://www.proteacher.com/prosearch/search2.cgi?c}}nil{{s}}medieval{{n}}1 http://www.proteacher.com/cgi-bin/outsidesite.cgi?id=13366&external=http://www.mcn.org/ed/CUR/cw/Plague/Plague_Sim.html&title=Black%20Plague%20Simulation&original=http://www.proteacher.com/prosearch/search2.cgi?c}}nil{{s}}medieval{{n}}1 http://eudocs.lib.byu.edu/index.php/Main_Page http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook1.html http://www.d118.s-cook.k12.il.us/South/curriculum/team6c/midages/ http://www.moonwise.com/ballads.html http://www.kyrene.k12.az.us/schools/brisas/sunda/ma/mahome.htm http://www.chronique.com/ http://library.thinkquest.org/J002767/ http://webtech.kennesaw.edu/jcheek3/middleages.htm http://www.castlesontheweb.com/ http://www.godecookery.com/godeboke/godeboke.htm http://www.learner.org/interactives/middleages/ http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/lesson156.shtml http://www.castles.org/index.htm http://www.geocities.com/castles4kids/ http://www.castles-of-britain.com/castle6.htm http://score.rims.k12.ca.us/activity/castle_builder/ http://www.yourchildlearns.com/castle.htm http://www.enchantedlearning.com/crafts/Boxcastle.shtml http://www.cis.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/1986/3/86.03.03.x.html#c http://www.rain.org/~philfear/castle.html
Great links and great suggestions! If you don't mind, I'm going to refer back to the Mystery of History, by Linda Hobar, topic. If a person studies only the first unit, he or she should get a good overview of what happened simultaneously in various countries around the world but only a partial history of each particular country. Instead of isolating countries and tracing each history separately the way an encyclopedia might, Linda links the countries in each age together and shows how their histories interact. We learn what was happening in Egypt and China, for instance, during the same time that we study the dark ages in Europe. A notebook is recommended in which to file info about each country, because we literally study around the globe with each era. We keep revisiting each country over and over again in segments--not all at once, like one might originally expect. This approach does take some rethinking for those who are used to studying each country alone, as I always had as a student; but so much more understanding for why things happened can be explained this way. And after doing history like this for awhile, it makes a lot of sense to study the larger picture of nations all at once. True, it does fragment the neat package of studying all about one country in one unit, but it met a need in my life of bringing the countries from their own unique planets, you might say, and placing them onto the same globe with each other. It even helped with Biblical history, which is far from being isolated from the rest of the world. Maybe no one else has had this illusion, but somehow when I was growing up, I could never really place it in the real world very well until I started studying MOH with our students. So if anyone thought one lesson or one unit was the totality of MOH's treatment of a country, I can see why a person wouldn't like it. Even with this explanation, not everyone might like this approach. We do. Also, we do slow down and sometimes take a week on one lesson, if need be. There are so many ideas for activities on some lessons that one volume of MOH could be used for two years. We're doing Vol. III this year. Even after our students graduate, I plan to order the rest of the series as it is published for my dh and myself! 'Hope this is helpful. NOT saying everyone else has to like it, and there's nothing wrong with NOT liking it, and I don't think any less of someone if they don't! Just sharing some of the reasons why we do. Oh--another reason would be the great research topics for older students! That's all for now. Best wishes to everyone in your study of His-story!
