What are History Pockets like?

[ballzy]

My ds likes to do crafty activities, and I'm wondering if he would enjoy history pockets.

Thanks.

Colleen

[Canada_Mom]

They are simplistic, but I guess that's what you need for the age group! We've used the ideas in the gr. 1-3 book. My dd6 is in gr. 1 and it was a good match to her ability. I personally, would not have used them for her if she was older, but that is dependent on your child and his interests/abilities. I found that the Gr1-3 History Pocket book worked really well with the SOTW and I didn't need to teach her additional information to complete the craft activities.

This http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&id=PGV5PwYgKFAC&dq=history+pockets+grades+%221+3%22+ancient+civili zations&printsec=frontcover&source=web&ots=ujP5OIQWR_&sig=7LrtdIaGCl6YMa42-6Ze33b7hyI should take you to the GoogleBook view of History Pockets Gr1-3, Ancient Civilizations. You won't be able to print or anything, but you'll be able to flip through the entire book and see if it's something you would use or not.

**Sorry- I don't know how to insert a link properly but this should work atleast, even if it looks terrible** :rolleyes:

[freethinkermom]

I am doing the Ancient Civilizations one with ds6 right now. He is really enjoying it.

Each pocket has a printed refrence guide for the child and a more advanced fact sheet for the adult. There are several activities. Some like making the pocket and the vocabulary requiring doing the same thing for each pocket, but some of the activities are different for each to give it variety.

We have been doing one pocket a week and are on the fourth, Ancient Greece. We are using big 12x12 scrapbooking paper for the pockets. There is lots of cutting and coloring, but a good amount of information to learn too. We will bind them all together when he is done.

Next we are going to do the Native Americans HP. That one we will take a little slower because we have so many oppurtunities locally for field trips and related activites.

I bought the Ancient Civilizations one as an ebook from homeschoolestore.com, but I have the actual printed book for the Native American one. I highly recommend the ebook version. Being able to just print is so much easier than needing to photocopy.

[Canada_Mom]

It occurred to me that maybe you weren't looking for the Ancient Civilizations one and that I don't know what age your ds is. :o

Here is the link to GoogleBooks (http://books.google.com/) just type in the title that you are looking for in the search bar at the top. You'll find that most Evan Moor books are available for viewing online.

You can also view most of the books directly on the Evan Moor website. I usually do a regular Google search of the book title, adding "Evan Moor" at the end and usually I get a link right to the product on www.evan-moor.com. Close to the bottom of the product description, you'll see a little link that reads: flip through entire book.

I've found this to be really helpful in selecting Evan Moor material. Saves a lot of time standing in a store flipping through all the titles available or trying to figure out from a catalogue what's acutally inside!

[Jenny in Atl]

My 2nd grader loved them! My 6th grader and I hated them! LOL. They are basically cut and past with a few activities. Not creative at all - very simple and straight forward. This frustrated me, I like to go off and add things. Towards the end we did more lap bk projects with them.

[ballzy]

I forgot to add that my ds will be 12 in 4 months. We've been looking at HO level 2, and he's seeing if he would prefer Ancients or Middle Ages.

Thanks.

Colleen

[freethinkermom]

I forgot to add that my ds will be 12 in 4 months. We've been looking at HO level 2, and he's seeing if he would prefer Ancients or Middle Ages.

Thanks.

Colleen

I think the History Pockets would probably be too simple for a 12yo. There is a huge difference between HO Level 2 and the level of any of the History Pockets I have seen. My ds11(almost) is doing HO Level 2 Early Modern. We did not do the earlier level 2 programs, but this one seems pretty solid.

[Sophia]

but my ds didn't like them past the age of 9 or so.

I honestly don't see the difference between this type of activity and lapbooking, except the latter requires alot more folding (which drives me batty!)

[Riverfront Headmistress]

My 10 year old found it to be busy work and I have to agree.

[OnTheBrink]

My daughter loved them. She's into busywork activities, though. (I have some for sale on the swap board)