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HISTORY
Through the Ages Timeline figures
from Home School in the Woods
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$19.95 for each set |
If there is one resource that I consistently recommend to homeschoolers, it is timelines. Timelines allow your students to help visualize the progression of time and how each period relates to the others. Timelines are important to unit study users in particular, since their coverage of history tends to skip around time instead of following the chronology of history. Timelines help students to realize which historical figures were contemporaries even though they may have been in different fields. Students also realize their own place in history through the use of timelines.
There are several methods of putting together a timeline, but the two most common are on a wall or in a notebook. Timeline figures are available from many different companies and can range from do-it-yourself to very expensive. While creating your own figures from books or the Internet can seem like a great way to save money, it can turn out to be a time-consuming endeavor to search for images of obscure historical figures. On the other hand, very few homeschoolers have the budget to afford some of the more elaborate timeline packages that are on the market.
Home School in the Woods meets a longtime need with quality, affordably priced timeline figures featuring detailed, superior illustrations. Each package contains 250 timeline figures printed in black and white on premium cover stock and includes the timelines pertinent to the period, as well as a handy reference page of names and dates for each figure. Unlike other timeline figures designed for curricula that do not cover history chronologically, these figures can easily used with any curriculum package since they are chronological instead of unit-oriented.
The figures, created by professional illustrator Amy Pak, can be colored by the students as part of their lesson or placed on the included timeline as is. Each pak includes not only historical figures, but symbols of important events as well, such as the Eat-West Schism of 1054 A.D., the Inquisition, and the Hundred Years War. The 250 timeline figures which are included in the first set thoroughly cover the historical period.
The first set of figures produced by the cottage business is Resurrection to Revolution, 0-1799 A.D. The figures can be used with any curriculum, although they were designed to be compatible with Diana Waring's History Alive! curriculum, "Romans, Reformers, and Revolutionaries." Eventually, HISTORY Through the Ages will include timeline figures for all over history, including Creation to Christ, Napoleon to Now, and America's History.