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20th Century History / History: Civics, Government and Economics / History: Geography Activities / Homeschool Den
by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published March 1, 2024 · Last modified March 7, 2024
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...
20th Century History / Freebies / Homeschool Den
by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published September 22, 2023 · Last modified December 30, 2023
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...
20th Century History / Freebies / History: Civics, Government and Economics
by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published February 8, 2021 · Last modified September 22, 2023
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,...
20th Century History / Homeschool Den / WWII
by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published December 31, 2020 · Last modified September 21, 2023
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...
by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published February 1, 2020 · Last modified April 18, 2021
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...
20th Century History / History: Civics, Government and Economics / Homeschool Den / U.S. Presidents
by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published September 4, 2019 · Last modified September 22, 2023
Free World Leaders and the Types of Government Worksheets A while back, I made a worksheet packet for the kids that covered some of the world leaders as well as the different types of government. A reader pointed out that I needed to update this to include Boris Johnson, the current Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Even newer update: I’ve changed and updated this packet (Sept 2023) as the...
20th Century History / Homeschool Den / World War I
by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published January 29, 2019 · Last modified September 21, 2023
100+ Page World War I Packet We have just finished our huge study of World War I and I am finally ready to share this 100+page WWI unit with you! Our World War I Unit starts with a study of imperialism and nationalism, dives into the causes of World War I with a close look at militarism, territorial disputes, and the complicated secret alliances of this period. We talked about...
20th Century History / Art History - Modern Art / Arts and Crafts / Homeschool Den
by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published January 2, 2019 · Last modified September 23, 2022
This new 25+ page Modern Art Packet is currently free to download! This packet starts with an overview of Modern Art – from impressionism, neo-impressionism & post-impressionism through fauvism, cubism… pop art and more! We spent the most time on the impressionist and post-impressionist artists so there are a number of pages on artists such as Renoir, Monet, Degas, Casssatt, Van Gogh, Seurat and others. The Modern Art packet also...
20th Century History / History: American Colonies / History: This is the United States-Unit Study (grade 1) / Holiday: Thanksgiving
by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published November 13, 2018 · Last modified September 19, 2023
Today I have some fun Then and Now worksheets to share with you! These are currently FREE to download! 🙂 They include various items from the past and present… and are perfect if you are talking with your kids about the history of Thanksgiving! If your kids are a little older they can try to figure out how long ago these items were used – back in colonial days (1620)...
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The Human Body Systems, Skeletal, Digestive, Circulatory, Muscular, Nervous, Endocrine Systems and More (with lots of hands-on activity ideas)! We usually study a different body system each year.
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Do your kids know the 4 largest countries? Which countries have the most people? The longest river? This packet covers basic world and U.S. facts and also covers geographic features and land forms.
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This is a fun, hands-on unit for early elementary students!
How the body is organized from cells to tissues... organs to body systems
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