With the wonderful selection of Á La Carte projects offered by Home School in the Woods, it was hard to decide on which ones to review. It did help us narrow it down a little since many of the hands-on projects we had done already in the past. Over the years, we've used the Time Travelers U.S. History Studies, Project Passport World History Studies, and the Hands-on History Lap-Paks. We've even done a few of these great history resources as reviews for the Homeschool Crew Review.
For this review, we were chosen to review two of the Á La Carte projects, the Science, Invention, and Mathematicians Timeline and The Art of Quilling. These are just 2 of the 60 hands-on history projects offered. You can choose timelines, games, art projects, and so much more. These projects are the perfect way to supplement your learning. The kids and I have always loved hands-on learning. Over the past 9 years, I've realized that these hands-on projects really help young students learn their history and help them retain the information that they have been presented with. No boring facts here!
The Science, Invention, and Mathematician Timeline is a timeline of important people and inventions over the years. The timeline starts at 1,000 B.C. and goes until about 2010 A.D. There are 120 people, inventions, and events from history will be placed along the timeline. Students will learn about areas such as space exploration, advances in medicine, important agricultural inventions, and a variety of new technology that has advance our society. Even if your students have used previous timelines in the past from Home School in the Woods, they will now learn about 47 new people, inventions, or events. The timeline pages are predated and have the spaces marked on where students should place the images. This makes this timeline perfect for younger students. It is geared for students in grades 3rd through 8th, but I think 1st and 2nd graders could easily work on the timeline with some help. There is a teacher's key included in this download.
I chose to create one master timeline for Michael and Therese. Since they are already working on a timeline in the history and science class, I didn't want to add another one to their list of things to do. I printed the timeline out on green card stock and then printed the labels out on plain, old copy paper. We went through and talked about the various people, inventions, and events as we glued them on together. I was thrilled to see when they remembered a certain person from a previous timeline we had worked on from Home School in the Woods. It made this mama proud and it helped me realize that hey they do listen!
Once our timeline was completed, I taped the pages together and hung it on the wall for the kids to use as reference. We may even add to it during the year.
The Art of Quilling is a 3-dimensional art project made with rolled up paper. Quilling also goes by paper scrolling, filigree, and mosaic. This beautiful art form has been around for centuries. It was extremely popular during the Stuart, Gregorian, and Regency time periods. They even believe it goes as far back as the Ancient Egyptians. I'll be honest, I had never heard of this type of paper art form before or if I learned about it in art history I somehow forgot all about it. After a quick google search and a look around Pinterest, I was impressed and intrigued. Some of the designs created are absolutely stunning.
The Art of Quilling from Home School in the Woods provides students and parents with background information about this form of art and instructions on how to create different shapes. Students will learn how to create the tight coil, loose coil, ovals, teardrops, leaves, squares, and triangles. They even offer a simple template to give this paper rolling thing a try.
I did purchase a starter kit online to complete this project. it came with the tools needed and strips of colored paper.
After practicing a few of the techniques, Therese and I went on to create our own flowers. My only wish for this project would be to have more than one template to try out. It would the students a few different projects to complete and display.
The project was a little trickier than I first thought it would be, but it was fun and easy to learn. Younger students would need some help from older siblings or mom.
I think we'll be trying to create some new master pieces soon.
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