| | |  | Out of the Box | Home » » » The Story of the World Activity Book Four: The Modern Age: From Victoria's Empire to the End of the USSR | | | | | | | Description: | | 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 | | | Product Details: | | | Paperback:
| 432 pages | | Publisher:
| Peace Hill Press | | Publication Date:
| December 28, 2005 | | Language:
| English | | ISBN:
| 0972860355 | | Product Width:
| 215.5 centimeters | | Product Height:
| 278.5 centimeters | | Product Weight:
| 3.26 pounds | | Package Length:
| 10.9 inches | | Package Width:
| 8.4 inches | | Package Height:
| 1.6 inches | | Package Weight:
| 3.25 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 12 reviews |
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35 of 40 found the following review helpful:
 dissapointedFeb 25, 2006
By T. Ruzicka
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.
25 of 29 found the following review helpful:
Disappointed in lack of work for younger students....Nov 11, 2006
By T. Ralph
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.
14 of 16 found the following review helpful:
 Just what we were looking for!Jul 07, 2008
By Tonks
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.
12 of 14 found the following review helpful:
 Extremely HO HUMApr 15, 2008
By Terri J. Rice
"ricepaper"
OK the students are older so they need a little more writing, but that is all this work book is! Boring. Bauer simply has the students write outlines of the chapters. I can make outlines to be written from, which is all you get in this hefty book... and maps- lots of maps. The creative factor is what I want in a work book; it's what I pay for and it isn't there in this one.
It is the fourth in Bauer's history series and I think she ran out of steam. It's too bad; her earlier work books are creative. My kids with the previous work books said, "Yay! History!" Now they say, "Is it another outline?" You could save the money and just make your students outline the entire history book.
5 of 5 found the following review helpful:
 HelpfulNov 24, 2007
By apoem
"apoem"
This book has been very helpful in planning a history curriculum. Other reviewers are correct the ditto portion you can copy is mainly maps. It is also a bit weaker than the other books in this group. However, despite those two complaints, this is a very useful book when planning curriculum for a homeschool student. There are discussion topics, craft ideas and more.
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