Want to make your own mummy out of a hot dog? Want to go on an orienteering treasure hunt? How about making a pop-can peep hole constellation viewer? Or you can create your own Book of the Dead Unit 1-2 includes all of this, plus a printable historical map, and tons of ideas to keep your kids learning with hands-on fun. In each unit you'll find a recommended library list, important background information about each topic, lots of activities to choose from for kids of all ages, and sidebars with a bunch more ideas including Additional Layers, Fabulous Facts, On The Web, Writer's Workshop,...

What if you could mold your own "tools" like the ancients? How about going Geo-caching? Want to design and create your own lunar base? Or learn a craft like weaving? Unit 1-3 includes all of this, plus a printable historical map, and tons of ideas to keep your kids learning with hands-on fun. In each unit you'll find a recommended library list, important background information about each topic, lots of activities to choose from for kids of all ages, and sidebars with a bunch more ideas including Additional Layers, Fabulous Facts, On The Web, Writer's Workshop, Famous Folks, and Teaching Tips....

Would you like to re-enact the Battle of Marathon? What if you could decide what the wonders of the modern world were? How about if you could build your own comet? Or how about creating a fresco painting just like the Greeks? Unit 1-4 includes all of this, plus a printable historical map, and tons of ideas to keep your kids learning with hands-on fun. In each unit you'll find a recommended library list, important background information about each topic, lots of activities to choose from for kids of all ages, and sidebars with a bunch more ideas including Additional Layers, Fabulous Facts, On...

Would you like to build a model of the Hanging Gardens? What if you could make your own map of an imaginary place? Would you like to practice space walking like the astronauts? Or how about learn to write a real poem and have fun doing it? Unit 1-5 includes all of this, plus a printable historical map, and tons of ideas to keep your kids learning with hands-on fun. In each unit you'll find a recommended library list, important background information about each topic, lots of activities to choose from for kids of all ages, and sidebars with a bunch more ideas including Additional Layers,...

In this unit you can learn what Abraham has to do with current events in the Middle East. You can create a Pangaea flip book. You can build a model rocket and learn what makes it go up. And you can even write a poem about how you can't write a poem Unit 1-6 includes all of this, plus a printable historical map, and tons of ideas to keep your kids learning with hands-on fun. In each unit you'll find a recommended library list, important background information about each topic, lots of activities to choose from for kids of all ages, and sidebars with a bunch more ideas including Additional...

Want to make a model Phoenician ship from a banana? How about create your own ocean in a bottle? Can you make a marble roller coaster with a successful loop-de-loop? Or find moral stories from around the globe to help instill values and teach good character? Unit 1-7 has all of this, plus a printable crossword puzzle and lots of other great printables and ideas to keep your kids learning with hands-on fun. In each unit you'll find a recommended library list, important background information about each topic, lots of activities to choose from for kids of all ages, and sidebars with a bunch...

Can you use the laws of physics to make a needle float? Want to make a Sonoran Desert Snake craft? Or make a king's chariot model? How about learning to drum Djembe-style? Unit 1-8 includes all of this, plus printable maps, and tons of ideas to keep your kids learning with hands-on fun. In each unit you'll find a recommended library list, important background information about each topic, lots of activities to choose from for kids of all ages, and sidebars with a bunch more ideas including Additional Layers, Fabulous Facts, On The Web, Writer's Workshop, Famous Folks, and Teaching Tips....

Learn how shadow puppets consoled a great Chinese emperor for the loss of his wife and make puppets of your own. Do you know why the first pagoda was built or what Confucius has to do with modern philosophy? You will after you've played and learned with this Layers of Learning Curriculum. Build a playground sized lever, decide whether Paul Bunyan was really a hero, learn why a "tree is a sensitive thing," make paper, and discover the Terracotta Army, plus tons more In each unit you'll find a recommended library list, important background information about each topic, lots of activities to...

Read the Shinto creation story and write a tale about the three sacred treasures of Japan. Map the mountains of the world and make a mountain animal paper plate craft. Fry ice and watch your soda pop sublimate. Learn to spot the lines in a piece of art and how an artists uses them, plus use them in your own art All this and much more in Unit 1-11 of the Layers of Learning Curriculum. In each unit you'll find a recommended library list, important background information about each topic, lots of activities to choose from for kids of all ages, and sidebars with a bunch more ideas including...

Color a map of the ancient Arabian trade routes carrying frankincense, gold, myrrh, and slaves through Nabatea and Petra. Map the rivers of the world and explore all the landforms around a river. Finish off rivers with a fishin' review game. Make an atomic mobile model and marshmallow molecules. And learn the difference between tints ans shades and how color value can be used to create mood in art. In each unit you'll find a recommended library list, important background information about each topic, lots of activities to choose from for kids of all ages, and sidebars with a bunch more ideas...