Welcome to Simply Smart ‘s
Digging Into History
Make history come alive for your family!
A fun, integrated approach encouraging research & critical thinking
Why Families & Tutors Love Simply Smart's Digging Into History?
- Integrates Multiple Disciplines & Puts History In Perspective: Combines history, geography, science, art, architecture, music & literature into one cohesive study. Uses timelines, maps, & discussion questions to help students understand history in context.
- Brings History to Life: Incorporates a wide variety of resources, such as books, movies, field trips and hands-on activities, to make historical events vivid and meaningful.
- Supports Family Style Learning: Allows children of multiple ages to study the same historical period at their own level. Provides meaningful assignments for preschool through high school students, making it ideal for co-ops and family-style learning.
- Builds Research & Presentation Skills: Encourages children to research a variety of topics, synthesize information, and present what they have learned clearly and confidently.
- Develops Critical Thinking: Uses primary sources related to each topic, encourages children to evaluate the strength & weaknesses of evidence & to draw connections between historical events & the world today. Families are free to incorporate their own values & opinions into class discussions.
- Flexible & Comprehensive: Utilizes primary sources. Encourages students to evaluate evidence & draw connections between historical events & the modern world. Respects each family’s freedom to incorporate their own values & convictions into conversations.
- Create Book of Centuries: Students build their own personalized history book with timelines, maps, research notes, writing projects, outlines & essays that they organize into a meaningful record of their historical journey.
HOW IT WORKS?
Easy as 1-2-3!
Create a Book of Centuries
Creating a “Book of Centuries” leaves students with a tangible, organized summary of what they studied. It deepens learning & providing a meaningful tool for review.
- Passport Book: Our passport book provides an outline of what to study, makes it easy to track progress & can be used to divide & organize student work in their binder.
- Timeline & Stickers: Use our timeline & sticker packet to create a clear, visual image of history through the years.
- Student Activity Book: The Student Activity Book has lots of writing projects, discussion topics & activities related to each topic that can be included in the student’s Book of Centuries.
Select a Topic to Study
Use our Passport Book to select a topic & then use the following resources to study.
- Bullet Point Guide: Gives an overview of each time period. Can be used for younger children, but is comprehensive enough to use for high school.
- Optional Resources: Our webpage provides a list of recommended books, videos, activites, field trips, etc., that can be used for each topic to learn.
- Writing & Research Projects: Each historical time period has writing project ideas included in the Student Activity Book to deepen learning.
Reinforce & Memorize
Our Erasable Playmats make it easy for children to memorize key concepts & information.
- Learn Geography: Use our erasable playmats to label maps & memorize geography
- Memorize Important Dates & Concepts: Create a framework by memorizing important dates & concepts that help children draw connections.
- Gain an Overview of Different Academic Disciplines: Learn to identify key periods & styles of art, music, architecture & more.
Get Started
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Simply Smart can be used as a comprehensive curriculum, as a supplementary resource for tutoring or for homeschool coops.
