Customer Reviews

History Pockets: Ancient Egypt: Grades 4-6+

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This book was very helpful and a great deal of fun! Although we would have loved to have used it for a homeschoolers teaching tool, we actually used it for a birthday party. My 6yo son had an Egyptian Archealogical Dig for his birthday and we used this book to make games about the Ancient Egyptians and learn a lot more than we thought. I will purchase more in the series for our History lessons this school year-- what a great find!

I've been impressed by the content of the 3 "History Pockets" books we've used in our homeschool (Ancient Civilizations, Ancient Egypt, and Ancient Greece). I think they would be really helpful for visual and tactile learners. Unfortunately, my DD hated all the cutting & pasting involved. She found it to be busywork.

I would recommend the "History Pockets" to students who don't mind all the prep work involved in making the folders/lapbook.

We really enjoy using History Pockets for the fun activities that bring history to life. They are not a complete history curriculum, only an outline. The information about ancient Egypt is limited to the driest, barest facts so you will want to supplement your studies with much more informative and interesting books. We used DK's Ancient Egypt; the Usborne Encyclopedia of the Ancient World; Ancient Egypt by Liz Gogerly; Mummies, Pyramids, and Pharaohs by Gail Gibbons; and You Wouldn't Want to Be a Pyramid Builder by Jacqueline Morley. After getting our info elsewhere we turned to the History Pockets for fun enrichment projects. This is a very worthwhile series and I recommend it, but I'm only giving it 3 stars because: the text could have been written in a much more interesting way, and this book is really below a 4th to 6th grade level. I would call it 1st thru 3rd.

I am a first year homeschooling mom with sixth and third graders. I purchased the History pockets: Ancient Eqypt for 4-6 grade, Ancient Greece 4-6, Ancient Rome 4-6 and the Ancient Civilizations for 2-3 grade. I have been able to teach both children simultaneously using these resources along with extra reading materials found at our local library. The Ancient civilizations pocket starts with Mesopotamia and then moves on to Egypt, Greece, and Rome. Where the Ancient Civilizations pocket gives an overview of each subject suitable for the third grade level, the 4-6 grade pockets are more in depth. I have adjusted my lesson to satisfy the needs of both of my children(which by the way love history)while also including biblical studies - Abraham was from Ur in Mesopotamia, Joseph in the Pharoh's house, Moses and the exodus from Egypt, etc. The pockets offer hands on craft and learning projects that made the subject interesting for both. Once we complete the study on Egypt, I will be starting the Ancient Greece pocket with my sixth grader to tie in with the next lesson in the Ancient Civilizations pocket - Greece. The pockets have been an excellent addition to our history lessons.

We homeschool and decided to add this into our World History when we hit Egypt. This is my first pocket and we really enjoyed it. I adapted it to a 2nd and 3rd grader, but found many of the projects to be on level for them. They loved to cut, paste and color while I read the info on the Egypyians. When I ask comprehension questions they could actually answer them. :)