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22 Famous Texans Notebooking Pages (editable) For a Fun History Study

February 10, 2021 | Leave a Comment
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These 22 famous Texans notebooking pages can be added to a unit study about Texas. You could use the Texans notebooking pages for a famous people study too.

I’ve created 11 Texans notebooking pages which have 2 Texans on each page so your child can notebook about 22 famous Texans.

In addition, I’ve created two sets of notebooking pages. The first set is editable and the second set has lines for handwriting. You decide best how to use them with your kids.

Some kids need more practice handwriting, other kids need to type. Again, it’s the same set with two different options. You get both options in the one download.

22 Famous Texans Notebooking Pages

22 Famous Texans Notebooking Pages For a Fun History Study (Editable)

Look at these 22 famous Texans on each page and in addition where possible, I have a link or two to help you kick off your unit study with a heap of Texan-ness.

One. Davy Crockett

Davy Crockett, Tall Tales, and History

157 page .pdf about Davy Crockett

Two. James Bowie

Bowie, James (1796–1836)

Bowie, JAMES, military officer, Alamo Defender, Hero 

Three. Branch Tanner Archer

Archer, Branch Tanner (1790–1856)

Branch Tanner Archer

Four. David G. Burnet

Sons of DeWitt Colony, Texas

Five. Edward Burleson

Burleson, Edward  (1793  – 1851 Dec 26 )

Six. Elisabet Ney

Elisabet Ney Museum

Ney, Elisabet (1833–1907)

Seven. Francisco Vazquez de Coronado

Francisco Vázquez de Coronado

Vázquez de Coronado, Francisco (1510–1554)

Eight. Gail Borden, Jr.

Borden, Gail, Jr. (1801–1874)

About Gail Borden

Famous Texans

Here in Texas, our homeschool state law states the curriculum must include the five basic subjects of reading, spelling, grammar, mathematics and good citizenship.

Good citizenship is similar to civics so you can include these notebooking pages toward your goal of covering Texas history.

Nine. Jane Long

Jane Herbert Wilkinson Long was called the “Mother of Texas.” 

Jane Long (1798-1880)

Ten. John C. Hayes

Hays, John Coffee (1817–1883)

John Coffee Hays

Eleven. John Henry Brown

Brown, John Henry (1820–1895)

John Henry Brown family papers, 1691-1951

Twelve. Lorenzo de Zavala

Zavala, Lorenzo de (1788–1836)

Lorenzo de Zavala (1789-1836)

Thirteen. Mirabeau Lamar

Lamar, Mirabeau Buonaparte (1798–1859)

Giants of Texas History

Fourteen: Robert Cavalier, Sieur de Lasalle

The Explorers

La Salle, René Robert Cavelier, Sieur de (1643–1687)

Texas History Unit Study

Fifteen: Sam Houston

6 page pdf Teacher Guide

Study in Leadership

Sixteen: Stephen F. Austin

Colonization of Texas:

Stephen F. Austin 1793 – 1836

Seventeen: Thomas Green

Green, Thomas (1814–1864)

Green, Thomas  (1814 Jun 8 – 1864 Apr 12 )

Eighteen: William P. Hardeman

Hardeman, William Polk (1816–1898)

William P. Hardeman “Old Gotch” (1816-1898)

Nineteen: Sterling C. Robertson

Robertson, Sterling Clack (1785–1842)

Twenty: Susanna Dickinson

Dickinson, Susanna Wilkerson (ca. 1814–1883)

Alamo widow and survivor

Twenty-one: Anson Jones

Jones, Anson (1798–1858)

Jones, Anson  (1798 Jan 20  –  1858)

Twenty-two: James S. Hogg

Governors of Texas

James S. Hogg (1851-1906)

Grab the Notebooking Pages below.

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22 Famous Texans Notebooking Pages For a Fun History Study (Editable)

You’ll love these other resources for studying about Texas:

  • History of the Texas Cowboy, Cattle Drives, and Chisholm Trail
  • Texas Native American History Quick Unit Study (Middle School)
  • How to Build the Alamo: Day 5 Hands-on Learning (Free Texas Unit Study)
  • Free Copywork Cattle A Texas Poem For a Fun Unit Study
  • 35 Simple But Powerful American History Homeschool Resources K to 12

Hugs and love ya,

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How to Teach Science Through A Story – Middle & High School

August 7, 2017 | 118 Comments
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Using storytelling as a powerful teacher is not a new concept to homeschoolers. Not only do we love reading stories but we understand their power to captivate and convince readers. However, until I wasn’t so confident that teaching science through stories works for all ages of my kids. Click here to read 7 creative ways to teach older kids!I stalked the mailman waiting for these books from Beautiful Feet Books. I was given this product free and I was compensated for my time. However, paid for my time does not mean paid off or that a company will receive a glowing review. I don’t roll that way. ALL opinions are my own and for sure I will always tell you what is on my mind. When I do accept a product it’s because I’m giddy to tell you about it. Read my full disclosure here. Now on to the fun stuff!


Using storytelling as a powerful teacher is not a new concept to homeschoolers. Not only do we love reading stories but we understand their power to captivate and convince readers. However, until I started using Beautiful Feet Books I wasn’t so confident that teaching science through a story or through biographies would benefit my kids all the way through to high school.

First, I need to back up and explain what curriculum we’ve been poring over. For the past couple of months, it has been a delight to use the History of Science. I knew it was geared toward the 3rd to 7th grade level but we were over the top excited to ditch the science textbook and learn the history of science through living literature. Too, I know science biographies can also be used for older kids.

History of Science Living Literature

I already figured out that my worksheet approach, as academic and bookish as it sounds, didn’t work because my boys retained lessons better using a learn-by-doing approach.

Next, early on in my homeschooling journey, I had stumbled upon Early American History with my then first kindergartner. After using it with him, I learned that other equally important elements which stir a child’s thinking are living literature and absorbing history through a story. There has not been a more enriching way to teach him or my other sons to high school than a literature-based approach.

What I’m saying is that storytelling, learning-by-doing, and living literature are inextricably linked. Using those same elements while teaching science are the same ones used in teaching the History of Science and used for teaching an older child.

7 Creative Ways to Adapt Curriculum for Older Homeschooled Kids

Learning how to adapt a multiple age curriculum for upper grades can be challenging, but look at some ways I did this with the features of History of Science. They are the same tips I used with my sons all the way through middle school and into high school.

  • With a yearlong program geared toward 3rd to 7th grade, there is a lot of room to allow exploring topics in more depth. Using a yearlong program is key. Your time is valuable and by using a curriculum that is laid out for a year, you have more than enough ideas in place to use as a springboard for all the ages of kids you’re teaching.
  • Even though the biographies are geared toward a lower reading level, they are likable by an older child. Many essay points can be gleaned from each biography. For example, previous to studying this curriculum, we hadn’t researched much about George Washington Carver. Reading about this American Pioneer and his many uses of peanuts made for a fun rabbit trail or research project. Even though your younger kids can join in the project to list the many uses of peanuts, I had Tiny delve deeper into this since it piqued his interest. I required that he explain the history of the peanut. I had questions like what is the history of the peanut, why was Carver encouraging farmers during the American Civil War to break away from cultivating just cotton, and explain the growing process of the peanut. For example, he had to know that it wasn’t a peanut at all but a seed and understand that the boll weevil could devastate cotton crops.
  • Another fascinating point to glean from the History of Science is understanding and seeing science through the eyes of great scientists. We use this concept for history all the time. We want to learn history through the eyes of a character who lived in a particular time period. Learning science through biographies of Archimedes, Leonardo da Vinci, Galileo, Sir Isaac Newton, Marie Curie, George Washington Carver, Wright Brothers and Albert Einstein keeps kids equally inspired to learn about the wonders of science instead of dry, boring facts.

  • In addition, with many notebook pages, vocabulary words, and hands-on ideas the study guide is just that. It’s a springboard for you to use and add your own ideas. I really love how the guide is laid out because if it was totally scripted it’s hard to use that for older kids or younger kids. A guide on the other hand gives me a nudge or jump to another teaching concept that my son is interested in.
  • After I abandoned my wrong and stereotypical view that hands-on learning means no learning at all, I’ve been touting for years how hands-on learning needs to be used through to high school. The best books have been culled through and selected for easy hands-on activity that can be used for a variety of ages. Not only did we start our science portfolio notebook, but we did many hands-on learning activities like this one Day 4. Ancient Greece (Hands-on Science) 3 EASY Activities, ice cutting, and writing the Greek alphabet.

  • One more fun way to engage older kids through a story is to let them learn through a timeline. A timeline is a visual and natural way to learn. Kids can race ahead and place figures on a timeline while they read about scientific discoveries, events, and biographies. This is another key benefit to this curriculum. The timeline can stand on its own. It can be used completely separate. Instead of quickly placing the key events or scientists in order, challenge your older kids to learn about them before seeing the dates. Which significant event happened first, next and so on? Your middle school kids can memorize the events in order. It’ll give your kids foundational pegs as they fill in with more information with each time period.
  • Another tip that makes this curriculum especially useful to me is that it has scientists from different time periods. It’s organized into 3 parts that coincide with history, which are Ancient Scientists, Medieval & Renaissance Scientists, and Modern Scientists. I can easily add one section in depth this year and come back to this resource another year to focus on a different time period.
  • One last tip I do is to completely turn the teaching guide and everything over to my older kid. When you’re finished with the younger kids, let your middle or high school kid work through the lessons at their pace or at their will. For example, Tiny skipped all over the place when it came to reading and what interested him. That is such a liberating feeling for any learner and it’s the way to encourage independent learning. A lot of Beautiful Feet Books curriculum can be used that way, which is why I’ve been a user for a long time and couldn’t be more pleased.

The last thing I know you want to know about is whether it’s Christian or secular. I guess that depends on your definition of those two concepts. It’s easier to tell you that it’s very friendly toward both type of views which I appreciate.

While it has some parts that ask your child to write a Bible verse, you can leave it, use it, or add your own. That part shows they support a Christian view. However, their goal with their curriculum is to leave it up to you as the parent to add your worldview. I can say it’s more easily done with this curriculum than many I use which saturate their curriculum with their Christian or secular worldview and makes it almost impossible to tweak.

If you’re wanting to use curriculum that teaches science through storytelling with a focus on hands-on learning by using a part unit study approach and part Charlotte Mason, you’ll love this curriculum like I do.

Read about the other curriculum I’ve used here at Early American and World History, the Medieval History Sr. High levels and Medieval History Adv. Int. & Jr. High Pack history curriculum.

Guess what? You read down to here and I told you there was a surprise!

Beautiful Feet Books is giving away $100.00 of living books! Oh, you want this and please don’t think you’ll not win! I have to give this sweet giveaway to somebody! Go ahead and enter below.

How to Purchase It.

►Product Name: History of Science
►Website: Beautiful Feet Books – BFBooks
► Don’t Miss: The Getting Started page. It’s been such a helpful guide for me through the years.
►Type of product: These is a physical product but the study guide is available as a digital download too. From their site: Our newly revised and updated History of Science is a popular and exciting read-aloud approach to the study of science! Rebecca’s course uses biographies to tell the life stories of famous scientists like Archimedes, Galileo, Leonardo da Vinci, Marie Curie, George Washington Carver, Einstein, and others as well as hands-on experiments to prove the scientists’ theories and test their discoveries. An enriching way to introduce biology, chemistry, and physics. For grades 3-7, this one-year study will cover basic scientific principles and the history of scientific study beginning in ancient Greece and continuing through the 1990s. Contains 85 lessons, dozens of experiments, lab reports, and much more.
►Price: Regular Price: $182.49 17% OFF! BFB Price: $150.95 but this is a yearlong curriculum. 

 

 

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Free Art Notebooking Pack – Grade 1 (Other Grades too)

November 9, 2015 | 3 Comments
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Artist Study Packet (1st grade) with 3 text - 1 sketch box

Free Art Curriculum & Notebooking Pages

I have another set done of my free art notebooking pages.

I always have some long term project going on and this one turned out a bit longer with my move, but I have another set completed.

You know how I feel about art.  It is one of those subjects that should be enjoyed from K to gray.

So even though the free art curriculum guide at Concordia University Chicago – Art Lessons that I am following to create printables divides the art into grade levels, I did not create the art notebooking pages babyish.

This way whatever the ages of your children are, they can use any grade level guide of their choosing along with the printables I created to have a complete art program for each year.

After all if you haven’t covered an artists or art work before, then does it matter which grade you do?

Besides, you can use the guide questions in the upper grade art if you want to cover some of lower grade art and visa versa.

I know the questions in the upper grade level hone in more on artistic design, composition and principles of design.  And though the lower grade guides provides the same framework, they do not do it as in depth.

Again, I hope this makes sense because you should be able to do any packet you choose by using the free curriculum guides from either an upper or lower grade depending on the ages of your children.

Keep in mind, that you need BOTH the free Curriculum Guide from Concordia University ALONG with my notebooking packets to have a complete art program for the year.

Today, the 1st grade set is ready.  Remember there are 8 grades now (use to be 7 Grades).

Grade 8 has been added since I started this project (yippee).

I have completed grades 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 and only have grades 2 and now 8 to do before I am completed.

If you cover one artist per month, then each grade level will take you one year.  So free art for a year!

One last thing I need to remind you of because I have some new faces here is that I also create TWO SETS of the SAME art notebooking page, but each set is slightly different.

I know, I know, I like things perfect to have options and I love for you to have them too.

Look below at the graphic I created to show how each set is slightly different.

One set has ALL text boxes in case you have a kid or two like I do that doesn’t want to sketch the art.

Especially at the high school level, my oldest son just wanted to make it more about art history.

So he wasn’t interest in sketching every piece.  He just wanted to read the background information about each artist, read about the artwork and move one.  Oh yes,  I used some of these packets for high school art credit.

The second set has ONE sketch box instead of the text box because then I have another kid who wants to sketch the art that we were learning about. Too, I keep the sketch box not too big so it doesn’t become a project to sigh about.

How to Use - Art Notebooking Pages 1

So the art is the SAME for both pages.  Too, this allows you to choose from either set depending on the time you have for that month.  For example, one piece my sons may want to write, so I would print off that page.  The next art piece they would want to sketch so I would print off that page from the other set.

Give your child options and don’t think you have to use ALL the same pages from one set.  I mixed and match depending on the mood for the day or month.

I have a more pictures from each set to show you.  This is how the pages look from the set that has sketch boxes and

3rd grade Artist Study Packet 1 with 3 text and 1 sketch box 2 3rd grade Artist Study Packet 1 with 3 text and 1 sketch box 3

this is how the pages look from the set that has ALL text boxes.

3rd grade Artist Study Packet 1 with 4 text boxes 1 3rd grade Artist Study Packet 1 with 4 text boxes 2

Again, BOTH sets have the same art and are the same except for that one box.

Choices in any subject makes learning about it more enjoyable.  We don’t feel so hemmed in.

I hope you enjoy this next grade level, which is Grade 1 according to Concordia University AND be sure to download both packets so you can decide which set best suits your needs for each art piece.

Download each notebooking packet below.

Artist Study Packet (1st grade) with 3 text – 1 sketch box

Artist Study Packet (1st grade) with 4 text boxes

Did you miss my other sets and the free art curriculum guide to go along with it?

Download Grades 3,4, 5, 6, and 7 Notebooking Pages AND the FREE Guides to go with each set on my Art Notebooking Page.

Hugs and love ya,

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Free Strawberry Notebooking Pages

February 12, 2015 | 7 Comments
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It may not feel like spring yet, but spring is on the way.

Looking over my strawberry lapbook that we did, which seems like ages ago when my older boys were younger, I wanted to flesh it out some more if I decide to do this with Tiny.

Today, I have some fun and free strawberry notebooking pages.

Strawberries are the first “fruits” of spring or are they a fruit? You’ll have to read to learn about them.

Download Free Strawberry Notebooking Pages.

Back when we did our lapbook, we also took a field trip with our group to pick strawberries.  Of course at the end of studying about strawberries, I made strawberry short cake.

It was the perfect ending to our fun, easy and quick unit study about strawberries.

Too, I have some helpful websites and free downloads that will help your child do the notebooking pages on his own.

I never knew there were so many varieties of strawberries.

Go to this page at the University of Texas Digital Library to have your child label the notebooking pages showing the many varieties of strawberries.

Then go this page at the University of Illinois Extension officeto read about the history and lore of strawberries.

There are two notebooking pages about the history and lore of strawberries.

Then grab this download to add some science in understanding strawberry leaf diseases to fill out the last notebooking page.

Learning about strawberries is a fun way to kick off spring and it certainly got my kids excited about the change to beautiful weather.

Hugs and love ya,

You may also want to grab:

Free Bird Journal {Coloring & Identification Pages}

Linking up @ these awesome places:

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5 Days of Learning Printables:The World of Columbus and Sons Day 5 For Middle and High School

October 26, 2014 | Leave a Comment
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Today’s printables in my series 5 Days of Learning Printables:The World of Columbus and Sons 5 Days of Learning Printables:The World of Columbus and Sons Day 4 For Middle and High School Day 5 For Middle and High School are from Part II. When Columbus was in Portugal and Spain (1474 – 1492) Lesson 5 and 6 and from Part III. When Columbus was Sailing From Spain (1492 – 1500)  Lessons 7 and 8.The minibook Spanish Inquisition is for Lesson 5 under Part 11. When Columbus was in Portugal and Spain  (1474 – 1492).

Click to download Spanish Inquisition Here.

And then the minibook The Battle of Bosworth, which was the end of the War of Roses is for use in Lesson 6, also Part 11. When Columbus was in Portugal and Spain (1474 – 1492).

5 Days of Learning Printables:The World of Columbus and Sons Day 5 For Middle and High School

On this minibook, there are two pages which are the same except that one has the answers if you want to use this for a younger child or for your middleschooler.

Though I try to list the pages in the book too where the answers can be found through your child’s research, I also give an answer sheet to help if you need it.

Click to download The Battle of Bosworth Minbook WITH answers Thank You.

The next two notebooking pages, which are City of Granada and Alhambra are for use with Lesson 7, Part III. When Columbus was Sailing From Spain (1492 – 1500).

Click here to download Notebooking Page for City of Granada

Click here to download Notebooking Page for Alhambra The Most Beautiful Palace in the World

And then the Renaissance Geography Martin Behaim minibook is for use in Lesson 8, Part III. When Columbus was Sailing From Spain (1492 – 1500).

Click to download here Renaissance Geography Martin Behaim – Earth Apple

I do have one more printable I created too after Mr. Senior 2013 did his notebook cover on this book.

He drew the States of Italy from one of the hundreds of beautiful drawings in The World of Columbus and Sons, but I had some clip art from one of my paid resources and thought I would create a cover for you. 5 Days of Learning Printables:The World of Columbus and Sons Day 4 For Middle and High School

Of course feel free to use this any way your child wants to.  It can be a notebooking cover or it can be placed in the very front of the notebook  because this is the area that Columbus grew up in.

Download States of Italy Notebook Cover.

I hope your family enjoys these freebies. Knowing that there are so many topics to cover in this book can make it overwhelming to cover, but I hope your family enjoys the printables and they make it a little more enjoyable to cover as we love these series of books.

And don’t forget I have a huge Renaissance Unit Study and Glass Blowing Unit Study that will enhance your study of The World of Columbus and Sons.

Renaissance 1300 to 1600 Unit Study

Glassblowing

Here are the other posts in these 5 Days of Learning Printables: The World of Columbus and Sons.

Day 1. 5 Days of Learning Printables:The World of Columbus and Sons Day 1 For Middle and High School.
Day 2. 5 Days of Learning Printables:The World of Columbus and Sons Day 2 For Middle and High School.
Day 3.  5 Days of Learning Printables:The World of Columbus and Sons Day 3 For Middle and High School.
Day 4. 5 Days of Learning Printables:The World of Columbus and Sons Day 4 For Middle and High School.
Day 5. 5 Days of Learning Printables:The World of Columbus and Sons Day 5 For Middle and High School.

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