The Story of the World Activity Book Four: The Modern Age: From Victoria's Empire to the End of the USSR [Paperback]

Susan Wise Bauer (Editor)

Book Description

Age Level: 6 and up | Grade Level: 1 and up | Series: Story of the World

Build a model of the Crystal Palace, make Ned Kelly's armor, and color and construct a timeline of the Modern Age...don't just read about history—experience it!

This comprehensive, 8.5" x 11" curriculum guide and activity book contains map activities, coloring pages, games, projects, review questions, cross-references to illustrated encyclopedias, and extensive book lists. Children and parents love the activities, ranging from cooking projects to crafts, board games to science experiments, and puzzles to projects.

Each Story of the World Activity Book provides a full year of history study when combined with the Textbook, Audiobook, and Tests—each available separately to accompany each volume of The Story of the World Activity Book. Activity Book 4 Grade Recommendation: Grades 3-8. Illustrated throughout with black-and-white drawings and maps

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About the Author

Susan Wise Bauer is the best-selling author of the Story of the World series for elementary students, author of The Well-Educated Mind, The History of the Ancient World and The History of the Medieval World, and the co-author of The Well-Trained Mind: A Guide to Classical Education at Home. She is a faculty member in English at the College of William & Mary in Virginia, where she teaches writing and literature.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 6 and up
  
• Paperback: 432 pages
• Publisher: Peace Hill Press (December 28, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0972860355
• ISBN-13: 978-0972860352
• Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 8.4 x 1.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #28,769 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #5 in Books > Children's Books > History > Modern

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34 of 39 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars dissapointed, February 25, 2006

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T. Ruzicka (California) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Story of the World Activity Book Four: The Modern Age: From Victoria's Empire to the End of the USSR (Paperback)

The prior three activity books have been a great addition to our homeschooling, but this activity book vol 4 was a huge dissapointment. It contains mostly maps. We get plenty of maps in the reading book. This looks to be more appropriate for older grades. It is not as useful for the younger grades which was the benefit of her other books, they were great for all levels. Not this one.

24 of 28 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Disappointed in lack of work for younger students...., November 11, 2006

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I have never written a review before, but felt compelled to for this book. We are in our 4th year of using Story of the World and have always loved it. The activity book to volume 4 is a huge disappointment to me because of the lack of reading list suggestions for the lower grades. My favorite thing about Story of the World is that I have been able to easily present it to a variety of grade levels (I currently teach 6th, 4th and 2nd and K). The past activity books have allowed me to get books at each child's level (without having to go search them out myself). They have also provided pictures and coloring activities for the younger students, all of which allowed me to easily tailor the chapter's work to each child. This activity book will be very nice for my older children, but will leave me doing extra work for my younger ones (a prospect I am not looking forward to). My expectations were that this activity book would provide the same type of materials and activities as the first three. This book falls far of meeting my expectations. I am dissappointed that the authors decided to make what I see as a fundamental change in this last book of the series.

13 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Just what we were looking for!, July 7, 2008

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This review is from: The Story of the World Activity Book Four: The Modern Age: From Victoria's Empire to the End of the USSR (Paperback)

This activity book looks to be exactly right for my son who will be in fourth grade and nine -years-old. He is excited about switching from summaries to the outlines and we all love the maps. You just can't have too many maps in a book, at least in this house you can't.

I can see that if you have not been following the Well Trained Mind suggestions in having your child write detailed 6-10 sentence summaries, then the writing might be overwhelming, but I think it is the perfect next step for those of us who have. Compared to the suggested summaries for the third volume of the series, I was pleased that the emphasis for Volume Four seems to be on organization of writing rather than volume.