Your student will construct his very own state history project notebook using state-specific text, maps, and color state symbol pictures that we provide in the Student Booklet for your state. The Student Booklet may be either in perfect bound or spiral format. Both formats have perforated pages for easy removal of the handouts. Choose between two project notebook options:
Option 1: Use My State Notebook by Abeka as the project notebook. My State Notebook is a pre-formatted scrapbook into which the student pastes text and pictures from our Student Booklet. The value of this option is that the student ends up with a beautiful project notebook without spending much time and energy on the notebook itself, allowing the student to focus on the content. This option is recommended for grades 3-6 and can also be beneficial for grades 7-8.
Option 2: Have your student transfer the information and pictures from the Student Booklet to a made-from-scratch project notebook using his own 3-ring binder. This option teaches organizational skills, offers opportunity for creativity of original pages if desired, and allows for easy expansion of the depth and length of the course through the use of the expansion suggestions given in the Master Lesson Plan Book. This option is recommended for grades 9-12. For parents of students in grades 3-8 who prefer notebooking in a binder, this option will work well but will require more parental supervision than the use of My State Notebook (Option 1 above).
Instructions are given in the Master Lesson Plan Book for both options, and it is very simple to teach both options simultaneously for students of varying ages. Note: You do not need to be using Abeka to use the My State Notebook option. However, for those who do use Abeka 4th grade history, our 30-lesson plan is correlated to that curriculum and will provide the state history material needed for Lessons 86-115.
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