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Category: History and World Cultures Units

World Facts Packet - Geographic Features - Landforms - Topographic Maps 0

20th Century History / History: Civics, Government and Economics / History: Geography Activities / Homeschool Den

World Facts Packet Update!

I have added more than 25 new pages of World Landmark and Topographic Map Activities to the World Facts Packet! This packet covers many of the basic world facts I wanted my kids to know such as the largest countries, population facts, the major world religions, as well as geography terms such as gulf, bay, atoll, peninsula, cape, estuary, isthmus and so forth. There is a huge section on the...

World Leaders Worksheets - Types of Governments and Societies 0

20th Century History / Freebies / Homeschool Den

World Leaders Worksheets – Types of Government and Society Pages

Current World Leaders – Types of Government and Types of Society Packet Newly Updated in September 2023 This packet is currently FREE! This packet has two parts. In the first are three sets of world leaders worksheets (covering a total of 30 world leaders). Each set has two leader-country matching pages (plus answer pages), two fill in the blank charts, and two note-taking pages. There is also a notebook page...

Geography of Europe Packet - Countries Capitals Flags Worksheets 0

History: Geography Activities / Homeschool Den

Countries and Capitals of Europe Worksheets

New! Geography of Europe Worksheet Packet Learn the countries, capitals, and flags of Europe! This Geography of Europe Packet includes 25 pages of countries & capitals worksheets as well as a 25-page section on the flags of these European countries. As my kids started learning the countries of Europe, we tackled the country & capitals by geographic locations. The pages included in this packet are organized by region: the Nordic...

Age of Exploration Unit 0

History: Age of Exploration / Homeschool Den

Age of Exploration Unit

Age of Exploration Packet Update! We are just finishing our unit on the Age of Exploration and I wanted to let you know that I have added a lot of new materials to this packet including new notebook pages, map worksheets and a new lapbook/interactive notebook activity! This time as we started the Age of Exploration Unit, we went over some background about world trade at the time. We talked...

Ancient China Unit Worksheets about the Dynasties of Ancient China 0

History: China Unit / Homeschool Den

Ancient China Unit

100+ page Ancient China Packet Are your kids studying dynasties of Ancient China? This 100+page Ancient China Unit covers nearly 3,000 years of ancient Chinese History from the early cultures of the Neolithic period to the end of the Song Dynasty. This packet includes notebook pages, timeline cards, worksheets, geography materials and more! The link to purchase this is down below. Look for the red, Add to Cart button. Early...

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Australia - Geography and Animals / History: Geography Activities / Homeschool Den

Australia Packet

New! 75-page Australia Unit Do your kids know the states and territories of Australia? Perhaps your kids can identify a kangaroo or koala, but can they identify a numbat, bandicoot or quokka? Do they know that some mammals lay eggs? Do they know the terms marsupial or monotreme? This new Australia Unit will help kids become familiar about some basics about Australia.  This 75-page Australia Packet includes worksheets, notebook pages...

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Freebies / History: American History / Homeschool Den

FREE Famous Americans Packet

Who are these Famous Americans? Do your kids know who Benjamin Banneker, Dred Scott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton; Clara Barton or Scott Joplin were? (Mine weren’t sure!) You might want to grab this FREE Famous Americans Packet to help your kids learn more! This packet provides several options for learning about these 20+ Americans.  They can research and write down what they learned, they can do some fill-in-the-blank worksheets or they...

Types of Government Worksheets - Leaders of the World Worksheets 0

20th Century History / Freebies / History: Civics, Government and Economics

Types of Government and Society – World Leaders (Free Worksheets!)

FREE Packet: Types of Governments, Types of Society, Current World Leaders Newly Updated in September 2023 In our history class, we have been slowly going over the Types of Government and some of the current world leaders.  I’ve done a pretty big update and wanted to share this with you, if you are interested. This is the third time we’ve talked about terms like anarchy, monarchy, oligarchy, junta, parliamentary republic,...

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20th Century History / Homeschool Den / WWII

World War II Unit

Our 150-page World War II unit covers many of the basic events from the post-WWI era through the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945. The WWII Packet includes notebook pages, worksheets, timelines, interactive notebook pages and other activities. Here is Table of Contents for this WWII Unit: Timeline of 1920-1930s Events Post WWI Events – Notebook Pages and Teacher (Full Text) pages Rise of Hitler, Anti-Semitism, Inflation, anti-Jewish...

Hands-On Geography Activities 0

History: Geography Activities / Homeschool Den

Geography Activities

Hands-On Geography Activities appeal to all ages from tots to teens!! We often start off with geography activities, whether that’s at the beginning of the year or when we are starting new history units. Geography activities can be fun & hands-on and provide the framework for understanding history. I thought I would share age-by-age what kinds of geography activities we have done along the way.  Way back when my kids...

Ancient Egypt Unit 0

History: Africa Unit / History: Ancient Egypt / Homeschool Den

Ancient Egypt Packet

This 75+page Ancient Egypt Packet includes notebook pages, ancient Egypt timeline cards, Egyptian gods & goddesses cards & activities, an Ancient Egypt lapbook – interactive notebook pages, geography materials and more! Students will learn a lot about the 3,000-year history of Egypt… from the early dynasties through the Old, Middle and New Kingdoms of ancient Egypt.  Students will also have the opportunity to learn about Egyptian mythology, learning how stories...

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20th Century History / WWII

World War II History

This semester we have been studying World War II history. It’s been such a fascinating unit, I wanted to share with you what we’ve done so far! We have jumped ahead in time to pick up where we left off last spring in modern history.  Last year we studied the growth of imperialism & nationalism, WWI (see our 100+ page unit here) , the Russian Revolution, the Great Depression and...

American Revolution Unit - Worksheets and Activities 0

History: American History / Homeschool Den

American Revolution Unit

Our American Revolution Unit is more than 60+ pages and includes worksheets and notebook pages, a booklet, review cards and new chronology cards. We started the school year with a unit on the Age of Exploration (see more about this unit here)  followed by a study of colonial America (see our 13 Colonies Packet here). Then we moved on the the American Revolution! We actually started with a discussion of...

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History: American History / History: Slavery and the Civil War

Territorial Expansion – Manifest Destiny Worksheets

For the past couple of weeks, we have been doing an American History unit on Territorial Expansion. Below you’ll some of the new Territorial Expansion/Manifest Destiny worksheets and notebook pages I created recently. This material is included in our 100-page Slavery & the Civil War Packet. This packet has three sections Slavery (pages 4-37) Territorial Growth (pages 38-67) Civil War – (pages 68-103) including information on popular sovereignty, slave vs....