The usborne internet linked encyclopedia of world history
Encyclopedia of World History Internet-Linked (Hardcover)
Imagine a classically based history course where your child reads great history books and period-related literature, keeps a running timeline of the period studied, writes outlines and summaries of important people and events, completes history-related map work, and does all of this without extensive planning on mom's part. Although it may sound too good to be true, luckily for you it's not! The authors of the History Odyssey series have done an awesome job of combining an excellent variety of resources and activities and presenting it all in a very straight-forward, professional way that takes the stress of lesson planning off of you and puts the accountability and expectations squarely on your history student.
History Odyssey is basically a series of study guides, with one guide covering one era of history (Ancients, Middle Ages, Early Modern, or Modern) in one year. The Level 2 guides are intended for the logic stage students (5
th
-8
th
). With material extending and available for high school students on the Pandia website (www.pandiapress.com). The Level 1 series has been adapted into the History Q
The Internet-Linked Encyclopedia of World History
September 14, 2011
See my review on amazon for a complete table of contents.
I love the Usborne series of encyclopedias and other books, and was really excited to add this to our home's repertoire.
While there is not a lot of depth on some areas/topics (Ancient China and Japan, for instance), there is certainly a huge breadth of knowledge. I am excited that there are 100 pages dedicated to prehistory, including the birth of our planet and the beginnings of life. There is a really cool visual timeline of prehistory (kind of a mini Charlie's Playhouse Giant Evolution Timeline: Book & Play Mat, "Time Charts" for ancient, Medieval, and Modern history, and the "past 500 years" section includes mini topical sections on topics such as the cold war; cinema, radio, and tv; Christianity; and computers. The running timeline across the bottom of each page indicates both the era in history and the geographic area being discussed on those pages.
While I'm happy this book approaches prehistory from a scientific standpoint, I'm not thrilled about its handling of religion. It not only uses the outdated dating system of BC/AD (rather tha
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Table of contents :
Prehistoric time -- What are fossils? -- Clues from fossils -- Story of life -- Birth of the earth -- Changing world -- Beginning of life -- SHells and skeletons -- Crowded seas -- First fish -- Life on land -- Fish out of water -- Swamps and forests -- What are reptiles?
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The Usborne Encyclopedia of World History
September 14, 2011
See my review on amazon for a complete table of contents.
I love the Usborne series of encyclopedias and other books, and was really excited to add this to our home's repertoire.
While there is not a lot of depth on some areas/topics (Ancient China and Japan, for instance), there is certainly a huge breadth of knowledge. I am excited that there are 100 pages dedicated to prehistory, including the birth of our planet and the beginnings of life. There is a really cool visual timeline of prehistory (kind of a mini Charlie's Playhouse Giant Evolution Timeline: Book & Play Mat, "Time Charts" for ancient, Medieval, and Modern history, and the "past 500 years" section includes mini topical sections on topics such as the cold war; cinema, radio, and tv; Christianity; and computers. The running timeline across the bottom of each page indicates both the era in history and the geographic area being discussed on those pages.
While I'm happy this book approaches prehistory from a scientific standpoint, I'm not thrilled about its handling of religion. It not only uses the outdated dating system of BC/AD (rather than BCE/CE