I’m going through the Story of the World series with my daughter at a leisurely pace. We are using the Story of the World audio book and the Story of the World Activity Book as our main resources and adding in some videos, books, and projects.
On this post I have listed additional books, videos, and activities that are not listed in the activity manual. I highly recommend the combination of the audio book and the activity book. It has been working quite well for us.
This list only goes through chapter 17 of book 1 because I didn’t think we would get beyond that in one school year.
Here is basically how we are using Story of the World:
- Story of the World chapter audio with coloring page (We listen to the audio in the car as well.)
- Review questions (from Activity Book)
- Map work (from Activity Book)
- Mixture of read aloud books, videos, and projects on the topic. This takes up most of our time, but it is the part we like the best.
Introduction
Chapter 1 – The Earliest People
We started a prehistory unit study last year, but didn’t finish it so I added a bunch to this chapter.
- Europe: A Natural History Genesis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohMatNLX-lo
- Cain, Seth, Jubal and Tubal story from Josephus’ Antiquities of the Jews – Chapter 2
- Story of Noah https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCLRcA9mlQE
- Inside Noah’s Ark http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ya
pDn8cxEb0 - Noah’s Ark construction https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMVgyqRTApM
- Build scale model of Noah’s ark out of brownies
- Jesus Storybook Bible Tower of Babel (short video – no longer on Youtube)
- Create Tower of Babel out of sliced watermelon.
- The Usborne Internet Linked Ancient World pg 4-5
- Europe: A Natural History Ice Ages https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdK6zbPnHw4
- From Hunter-Gatherer to Farmer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJLHewx6PHQ
- Walking with Beasts Mammoths
- Book – You Wouldn’t Want to be a Mammoth Hunter
- Wooly Mammoth Cake
- Walking with Beasts Saber Tooth Cats
- Saber Tooth Tiger Cake
- Read Aloud Book – Maroo of the Winter Caves
- Read about otzi man http://www.angelfire.com/me/ij/oetzie.html
- Make arrowhead cookies
- Watch Lascaux cave http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DV0xrbvVAQw
- Watch ancient cave art http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3b1sX_WOlA
- Do cave art inside a tent
Chapter Two: Egyptians Lived on the Nile River
- The Usborne Internet Linked Ancient World pg 10-11
- Book – Story of the Nile by Noon
- DVD Mystery of the Nile
Chapter 3: The First Writing
- DVD – The Mystery of the Rosetta Stone https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMAkHfEtPT4
Chapter 4: The Old Kingdom of Egypt
The Usborne Internet Linked Ancient World pg 12-13- Video – Engineering an Empire Egypt https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHj21WsmYRw
- Project – Wrap up as a mummy using toilet paper
- Video –Building the Great Pyramid https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwiic6BoleQ
- Project: step pyramid made out of Legos
- Video- Egypt: Quest for Immortality https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2U608sVrSk
Chapter 5: The First Sumerian Dictator
- The Usborne Internet Linked Ancient World pg 6-9
- Book – You Wouldn’t Want to Be a Sumerian Slave
- Video- Watch History of Sumeria https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKs5Wvv1-14
Chapter 6: The Jewish People
- Video – Abraham movie
- Video – Jacob movie
- Video – Joseph movie
Chapter 7: Hammurabi and the Babylonians
- No additions
Chapter 8: The Assyrians
- Video – Epic of Gilgamesh https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJoDbeREUBk#t=66 (short)
Chapter 9: The First Cities of India
- Usborne Internet Linked Ancient World pg 14-15
- Video- Indus Valley Civilization https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnsatmxY7Kc
- Video – Mohenjo-Daro Civilization https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdGbamPgf8o (short)
Chapter 10: The Far East – Ancient China
Watch Wild China 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Eg4G3DKziw- Watch Wild China 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apzPYXbq_44
- Watch Wild China 3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJ3D-8Xhok8
- Watch Wild China 4 http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMjg1OTYwMTI0.html?from=y1.2-1-103.3.3-2.1-1-1-2
- Book – Treasury of Chinese Folk Tales
- Watch Wild China 5 http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMjg2NTY3NTY0.html
- Video – Life of a Silkworm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xLCSoacVS8 (short)
- Video – A Strand of Silk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2i6yMOwYFs (short)
- Watch Wild China 6 http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMjg3MDMwMjMy.html?from=y1.2-1-176.3.12-2.1-1-1-11
Chapter 11: Ancient Africa
- Usborne Internet Linked Ancient World pg 68-69
- Video- Watch Anasi playlist https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdsvvHpAGQc&list=PLB0BAA039800305E2
Chapter 12: The Middle Kingdom of Egypt
- Usborne Internet Linked Ancient World pg 30-31
- Video – Ancient Egypt The Real Life of An Egyptian https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZ1Ho_YEctg
- Book – In the Day of the Pharaohs: A Look at Ancient Egypt
- Video – Egypt’s 10 Greatest Discoveries https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNyztf1UYJ0
Chapter 13: The New Kingdom of Egypt
- Usborne Internet Linked Ancient World pg 32-35
- Video – Queen Pharaoh https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbBNkp1FfMc
- Video – Rediscovering a Lost World https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZS2UcSVWvY King Tut
- Video – Queen Nefertiti Resurrected https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6Qi-3_civA
Chapter 14: The Israelites Leave Egypt
- Jesus Storybook Bible – God to the Rescue video
- The Red Sea video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grvtFHwXWqU
- Video – The 10 Commandments Movie Animated https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTpKYlFVtyQ
- Book – Usborne Internet Linked Ancient World pg 38-39
- Project -10 Plagues Hands On Fun https://eclectic-homeschool.com/experiencing-the-10-plagues-of-egypt/
Chapter 15: The Phoenicians
- Book – Usborne Internet Linked Ancient World pg 36-37, 40-41
- Project – write name with Phoenician alphabet
- Video – Secrets of Archaeology – Sailing with the Phoenicians https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVKlra4pxJQ
- Video – Engineering an Empire – Carthage https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HetYXwtCCho
Chapter 16: The Return of Assyria
- Book – Usborne Internet Linked Ancient World pg 42-45
- Video – Assyrian Lion Hunt Reliefs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XnpR1cmf5c
- Story of Sennacherib and Hezekiah http://www.gospelweb.net/YouthItems/hezekiahandsennacherib.htm
- Hezekiah’s tunnel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RI3t80ZSg6M (short)
- God’s Messenger https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytd74b7U2TE (short)
- Video – Bible Animation Jonah https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgNb4s_E5ko
Chapter 17: Babylon Takes Over Again!
- Testament the Bible in Animation Daniel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIiFmC9tFVs
- Daniel the Prophet https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BG_kfeOqJsM
- Book – Nebuchadnezzar and the Babylonians
- Draw Ishtar Gate http://artstor.files.wordpress.com/2014/03/berlin_db_10313751422.jpg?w=500&h=326
- Watch – 7 Wonders of the Ancient World https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VawFVfcBi8I
- Project – Hanging Gardens of Babylon
This is grear! Do you have an updated version by any chance?
Thanks for this great resource. You might want to add this to Chapter 4. My kids really enjoy this!
http://discoverykids.com/games/mummy-maker/
The link to the Abraham movie no longer works, it says the movie was removed, is this the same one? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGDdr2c3zlI
No, it is a different one. The TNT Abraham movie. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109036/ I’ll change the study to show Amazon links for that series since they don’t seem to be available online – or they are at least hard to find online.
Have you seen the Crash Course History stories on YouTube? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yocja_N5s1I&list=PLBDA2E52FB1EF80C9
I saw them listed as a video resource for Ancient History on another blog, and I wondered what your thoughts on it was, if you’ve seen it. We’re slowly getting started with World History, (doing Sumerians/Mesopotamia next week), and gathering resources. CrashCourse does it in super-speed, so maybe it’s too fast for kids to really catch on(and they’ll miss alot of the jokes in it anyway…) (my kids are 8 and 10).
My boys (ages 11 and 12) and I have watched some of the Crash Course videos. We’ve used some of them for history, but usually it is when I can’t find a documentary on the topic.
This is great! Do you think you’ll continue with the rest of SOTW 1 next year with her? Did she do your prehistory unit study before this? (I see some of the resources are the same.)
Yes, that is the plan. In Kindergarten we started the prehistory unit study, but didn’t finish it so I incorporated the unfinished parts into our SOTW study. HTH
Wow! Thank you so much for this resource list. We are leisurely doing the audio and workbooks for SOTW and this is excellent!