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How to Build the Alamo: Day 5 Hands-on Learning (Free Texas Unit Study)

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Learning how to build the Alamo was another fun change to our schedule as we have continued in our series of hands-on homeschooling learning.

We thought it would be fun to sketch a quick layout of the Alamo as we read about it.

Having studied about the Alamo before, we pulled out The Alamo, An Illustrated History, book by George Nelson and the other book, The Alamo, an Illustrated History by Edwin Hoyt to study a bit of the architecture.

We also looked at how to build the Alamo on ehow and Tiny liked that model.

We gathered a few supplies and needed some more:

  • 4 sugar cube boxes and we only did the outline of the wall. If you decide to do the interior walls as well, you will need double or triple that depending how thick you want the walls on your model.
  • we used an old pizza box
  • glue gun and glue
  • marker
  • ruler
  • spray paint of your choice
  • couple of straws

Again, though this project looks easy like simply gluing a bunch of sugar cubes together, but it really did require planning, calculating and deciphering to understand the bell shaped parapet.

Looking at the pictures The Alamo, An Illustrated History to view old drawings of the Alamo to learning its history helped to get an idea of how to build it.

Tiny really had fun making this. We grabbed some Spanish moss and miniature cactus after Tiny painted it and otherwise he really loved the break in our schedule while focusing on understanding the history of the Alamo.

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Look at these other hands-on activities.

Day 1: Make a Hair Hygrometer,

Day 2: Desert Sand Art,

Day 3: Make Zopf (Swiss Style Bread),

Day 4: Exploring Edible Cactus (Learning about the Desert) and

365 Days Hands-On Homeschool Activities – One for EVERY Day of the Year

How to Build the Alamo. Learning about Texas. Grab your free unit study and lapbook @ Tina's Dynamic Homeschool Plus

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World War II Homeschool History Free Unit Study and Lapbook

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We finished our World War II Homeschool History Free Unit Study and now have the completed lapbook showing where we put all of the minibooks.

World War II Homeschool History

Like most all of my lapbooks, you can let your student write as much as he wants or as little. Because we do lapbooks as enrichment, I never fuss too much over what Tiny writes versus what he uses premade.

Even if he writes a little, this hands-on tool is better for reviewing than a worksheet. Also, in this unit study he got to hold a primary source, which was his grandfather’s ration card. Anytime I can make a personal connection to history for my boys it makes a unit study meaningful.

Too, there are so many subtopics to cover in this unit study that we just could not cover them all. I hope you like this study as much as we have.

Because we do our unit study and lapbooks too as we plod along, I never have lapbooks in one giant download.

I also do it this way so that you can grab just the parts you need instead of downloading minibooks you may not need.

GRAB EACH LAPBOOK MINIBOOK BELOW & THE REST OF THE UNIT STUDY.

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World War II Homeschool History-Manhattan Project,Vocabulary & A. Frank

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Manhattan Project, Vocabulary Words and Anne Frank Minibooks @ Tina's Dynamic Homeschool Plus

One reason we love homeschool unit studies so much is that when life happens, we can always pick up on unit studies where we left off.

I didn’t mean to wait this long to share the rest of the minibooks for our World War II homeschool history unit study, but after moving again, we just put the lapbook and unit study on hold.

World War II Homeschool History

So today, I’m sharing the last three minibooks, which are the Manhattan Project, vocabulary words with a pocket and a few facts about Anne Frank.

Manhattan Project, Vocabulary Words and Anne Frank Minibooks 1 @ Tina's Dynamic Homeschool Plus

Manhattan Project, Vocabulary Words and Anne Frank Minibooks 2 @ Tina's Dynamic Homeschool Plus

I created the words flash card style. This means that your child can just memorize the vocabulary and then for self-testing, just fold in half on the dotted line.

Manhattan Project, Vocabulary Words and Anne Frank Minibooks 3 @ Tina's Dynamic Homeschool Plus

There is so much to cover in this topic and Tiny has read more on this topic than any he has done before but I know we have to cut it off because he is almost ready to scoot onto our next topic.

Download the three free minibooks – Manhattan Project, Vocabulary Pocket and Words and Anne Frank here.

Because we do our unit study and lapbooks too as we plod along, I never have lapbooks in one giant download.

I also do it this way so that you can grab just the parts you need instead of downloading minibooks you may not need.

Grab the rest of this unit study and lapbook books below.


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World War II Homeschool History: Minibooks Causes & Great Depression

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Free 5 Causes of War and The Great Depression minibooks for a World War II homeschool unit study and lapbook @ Tina's Dynamic Homeschool Plus

Our World War II homeschool history unit study has been a fun start to our slow start to our year.

Because there are so many subtopics to consider under this time period, this unit study has been about painting broad strokes.

World War II Homeschool History

Like all unit studies, you can only cover so much material though it seems like you want to cover it all. Covering too many details can set us back in our unit study because the main points can get obscured.

So today, I have two more free minibooks, which are 5 Causes of World War II and The Great Depression.

There can be numerous causes to World War II, but highlighting about 5 of them for kids at the high school level is a great start for broad strokes.

Too, The Great Depression could be a unit study by itself, but by tying it in here to this time period, Tiny gets a larger picture of how life was back then.

Remember like most all of my minibooks, I give you choices because I like choices. So I have two minibooks, but they come in two choices. One minibook has facts in it and the other minibook is blank to allow your child to fill in his own research.

I offer these two choices because sometimes time is limited and you can decide to use one minibook filled in and one blank minibook, or both blank or both filled in.

Lapbooks are just small nuggets of quick facts and this one is no different.

We are almost ready to start adding the minibooks to the lapbook, but in the meantime we store them in a ziploc bag until we are sure we don’t want to create anymore.

Grab these below.

Download Here 5 Causes-of-World-War-II-and-The-Great-Depression Free Minibooks

Because we do our unit study and lapbooks too as we plod along, I never have lapbooks in one giant download.

I also do it this way so that you can grab just the parts you need instead of downloading minibooks you may not need.

Grab the rest of this unit study and lapbook books below.

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World War II Homeschool History:Staged For War & Quick Facts Minibooks & Links

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Free minibooks for a World War II unit study and lapbook. Grab Staged for War and Quick Facts over @ Tina's Dynamic Homeschool Plus

After we started our World War II homeschool unit study with a hands-on activity from  Great World War II Projects You Can Build Yourself, I played a bit of time period music for us both to get the spirit of the 1940s.

The tune is catchy and reminded us of Tiny’s ballroom dance classes, which he really enjoyed. So we started our day with a bounce from that music.

Before I share the free minibooks, Tiny chose and read in one day the book Story of the Second World War and we liked it because it gave a quick overview of facts.

World War II books for a homeschool unit study @ Tina's Dynamic Homeschool Plus

What life was like in the 1930s to 1940s along with World War II are such extensive topics that it could overwhelm a student.

Reading a book like Story of the Second World War gives us facts in a nutshell. From there we can then take trails about what we want to learn in this unit study.

World War II Homeschool History

The other spine we are using and reading through is a high school textbook online which is Digital History.

So the first two minibooks in this lapbook I have for you are Staged for War and Quick Facts.

Remember too, like most all of my minibooks, I have a blank minibook, which allows your student to add in his own research.

In addition, most of the time I offer a minibook with a few facts added. I do this because our lapbooks have always been an enrichment to our homeschool unit studies and time can be limited for your student to research each subject.

For example, on this minibook, Tiny researched for one of the minibooks and the other one he used the premade one with a few facts.

Because this is a high school unit study, I also use the cursive font I have paid for to prepare these minibooks and for this unit study.

My goal with all of my unit studies is to continue to strengthen Tiny’s skills in both reading and writing cursive. So some of the minibooks are in cursive.

This unit study is easy enough to use with a middle school kid too, but still at a higher grade level.

Download below, print, research and have your students write in the minibooks and keep them in a ziploc bag until the end of the unit study and lapbook when we place them on the file folder. I will have a picture for you then.

Download here Staged for World War II and Quicks Facts @ Tina’s Dynamic Homeschool Plus

Because we do our unit study and lapbooks too as we plod along, I never have lapbooks in one giant download.

I also do it this way so that you can grab just the parts you need instead of downloading minibooks you may not need.

Grab the rest of this unit study and lapbook books below.

Hugs and love ya,

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Don’t forget to follow BOTH of my Pinterest accounts for more AWESOME pins.

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