Year Two

Year Two Scope and Sequence

Year Two
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Individual Subjects

Week Titles
Unit 1

Week 1: Twilight of the Western Roman Empire

Week 2: Byzantine Empire & the Eastern Orthodox Church

Week 3: Byzantine Empire & Rise of Islam

Week 4: The Making of Medieval Europe: Charlemagne

Week 5: Developments During the Viking Age

Week 6: Medieval Life: Feudalism

Week 7: The High Middle Ages

Week 8: The Mongols, Marco Polo, and the Far East

Week 9: The Reshaping of Medieval Europe

Week 10: Early Lights of the Reformation

Unit 2

Week 11: Introduction to the Southern Renaissance

Week 12: The Southern Renaissance & the Early Explorers

Week 13: The Southern Renaissance & the Age of Exploration

Week 14: Spanish Dominion & the New World: Aztecs & Incas

Week 15: The Northern Renaissance & Its Scholars

Week 16: The Reformation: Martin Luther & the German States

Week 17: The Reformation in Switzerland, England, & Scandinavia

Week 18: Counter-Reformation, French Huguenots, & the Netherlands

Week 19: Elizabethan England & the Scottish Reformation

Unit 3

Week 20: Early New World Colonies & Eastern Europe

Week 21: Puritans in New England

Week 22: Charters, Creeds, & the English Civil War

Week 23: Restoration Colonies & the Age of Louis XIV

Week 24: Dissenters in America & the Age of Reason

Week 25: Colonists & Native Americans

Week 26: Empires at Odds

Week 27: Thirteen Established Colonies

Unit 4

Week 28: Shaping Influences on Colonial Culture

Week 29: French & Indian War

Week 30: Give Me Liberty!

Week 31: First Battles for Independence

Week 32: Waging the Revolutionary War

Week 33: America under the Articles of Confederation

Week 34: Writing the Constitution

Week 35: Federal Republic & French Revolution

Week 36: Perilous Times: The Adams Administration

Supporting Links

Year Two Supporting Links
History
General
Unit 1 – The Middle Ages

General Resources for this Unit

Week 1: Twilight of the Western Roman Empire

Week 2: Byzantine Empire & the Eastern Orthodox Church

Week 3: Byzantine Empire & Rise of Islam

Week 4: The Making of Medieval Europe: Charlemagne

Week 5: Developments During the Viking Age

Week 6: Medieval Life: Feudalism

Week 7: The High Middle Ages

Week 8: The Mongols, Marco Polo, and the Far East

Week 9: The Reshaping of Medieval Europe

Week 10: Early Lights of the Reformation

Unit 2 – Renaissance & Reformation

Week 11: Introduction to the Southern Renaissance

  • A massive Teacher’s Site for the Renaissance.
  • You’ll find this website very helpful to answer dialectic questions about frescoes. (Note that this website is not in keeping with early creationist viewpoints.)
  • Use this link to answer dialectic questions about shallow relief and Donatello.
  • Teacher’s guide and multiple activities for the read-aloud Renaissance Artists who Inspired the World.
  • Reproductions of European art, parental supervision needed. (Classic nudity)
  • Giotto – (Classic nudity)
  • Petrarch
  • To answer dialectic questions about Petrarch, check out this website.
  • To answer dialectic questions about Dante, check out this website.

Week 12: The Southern Renaissance & the Early Explorers

Week 13: The Southern Renaissance & the Age of Exploration

Week 14: Spanish Dominion & the New World: Aztecs & Incas

Week 15: The Northern Renaissance & Its Scholars

Week 16: The Reformation: Martin Luther & the German States

Week 17: Reformation in Switzerland, England, & Scandinavia

Week 18: Counter Reformation, French Huguenots, & the Netherlands

Week 19: Elizabethan England & the Scottish Reformation

Unit 3 – Of Crowns & Colonies

Week 20: Early New World Colonies & Eastern Europe

Week 21: Puritans in New England

Week 22: Charters, Creeds, & the English Civil War

Week 23: Restoration Colonies & the Age of Louis XIV

Week 24: Dissenters in America & the Age of Reason

Week 25: Colonists & Native Americans

Week 26: Empires at Odds

Week 27: Thirteen Established Colonies

Unit 4 – Age of Revolutions

General Resources for this Unit

Week 28: Shaping Influences on Colonial Culture

Week 29: French & Indian War

Week 30: Give Me Liberty!

Week 31: First Battles for Independence

Week 32: Waging the Revolutionary War

Week 33: America under the Articles of the Confederation

Week 34: Writing the Constitution

Week 35: Federal Republic & French Revolution

Week 36: Perilous Times: The Adams Administration

Geography

We suggest that you use a good world history atlas so that your students can have practice at the skill of using maps and legends. Click the link below for our recommendation. The next choice is to use the supporting links that you find here. Please only let your student look at the teacher map in Map Aids as a last resort.

General

Online Maps, Map Vendors, and More!

Unit 1 – The Middle Ages

Week 1: Twilight of the Western Roman Empire

Week 2: Byzantine Empire & the Eastern Orthodox Church

Week 3: Byzantine Empire & Rise of Islam

Week 4: The Making of Medieval Europe: Charlemagne

Week 5: Developments During the Viking Age

Week 6: Medieval Life: Feudalism

Week 7: The High Middle Ages

Week 8: The Mongols, Marco Polo, and the Far East

Week 9: The Reshaping of Medieval Europe

Week 10: Early Lights of the Reformation

  • No links available
Unit 2 – Renaissance & Reformation

Week 11: Introduction to the Southern Renaissance

Week 12: The Southern Renaissance & the Early Explorers

Week 13: The Southern Renaissance & the Age of Exploration

Week 14: Spanish Dominion & the New World: Aztecs & Incas

  • Blank map of South America. For answers click on upper left corner.
  • Blank map of Central America. For answers click on upper left corner.
  • Exotic plants and animals from Brazil.

Week 15: The Northern Renaissance & Its Scholars

Week 16: The Reformation: Martin Luther & the German States

Week 17: Reformation in Switzerland, England, & Scandinavia

Week 18: Counter Reformation, French Huguenots, & the Netherlands

Week 19: Elizabethan England & the Scottish Reformation

Unit 3 – Of Crowns & Colonies

General Resources for this Unit

Week 20: Early New World Colonies & Eastern Europe

Week 21: Puritans in New England

Week 22: Charters, Creeds, & the English Civil War

Week 23: Restoration Colonies & the Age of Louis XIV

Week 24: Dissenters in America & the Age of Reason

Week 25: Colonists & Native Americans

  • Map of Russia
  • Map of Iroquois “Six Nations”

Week 26: Empires at Odds

Week 27: Thirteen Established Colonies

  • No Links Available
Unit 4 – Age of Revolutions

Week 28: Shaping Influences on Colonial Culture

Week 29: French & Indian War

Week 30: Give Me Liberty!

  • No Links Available

Week 31: First Battles for Independence

Week 32: Waging the Revolutionary War

Week 33: America under the Articles of the Confederation

Week 34: Writing the Constitution

Week 35: Federal Republic & French Revolution

Week 36: Perilous Times: The Adams Administration

Worldview
General
  • ICLNet’s Christian books online – Bibles, primary source documents, etc. Enough treasure for a lifetimes research!
  • Bible Gateway (Including Online Bible: many translations)
  • Operation World: Year 2 encourages your children to pray for Muslims, Hindus and Buddhists. This site, for many, will replace the need for a copy of Operation World.
  • BBC Religion and Ethics: this site enables you to read about various religions.
  • The Ism Book: an online book for basic definitions that will help you in your worldview studies.
  • A Treasury Of Primary Documents: organizing principle is “documents that pertain to Early American history.” Begins at 500 B.C. – 1800 A.D.
  • Helpful information on the History of World Missions, including a time line.
  • YWAM: missionary puzzles and coloring pages
Unit 1 – The Middle Ages

Week 1: Twilight of the Western Roman Empire

Week 2: Byzantine Empire & the Eastern Orthodox Church

Week 3: Byzantine Empire & Rise of Islam

Week 4: The Making of Medieval Europe: Charlemagne

Week 5: Developments During the Viking Age

  • No links available

Week 6: Medieval Life: Feudalism

Week 7: The High Middle Ages

Week 8: The Mongols, Marco Polo, and the Far East

  • Need a substitute for Trial and Triumph this week? Read here about Waldensians.
  • A Christian Response to Hinduism

Week 9: The Reshaping of Medieval Europe

Week 10: Early Lights of the Reformation

Unit 2 – Renaissance & Reformation

Week 11: Introduction to the Southern Renaissance

Week 12: The Southern Renaissance & the Early Explorers

Week 13: The Southern Renaissance & the Age of Exploration

Week 14: Spanish Dominion & the New World: Aztecs & Incas

  • No links available

Week 15: The Northern Renaissance & Its Scholars

Week 16: The Reformation: Martin Luther & the German States

Week 17: Reformation in Switzerland, England, & Scandinavia

Week 18: Counter Reformation, French Huguenots, & the Netherlands

Week 19: Elizabethan England & the Scottish Reformation

Unit 3 – Of Crowns & Colonies

Week 20: Early New World Colonies & Eastern Europe

Week 21: Puritans in New England

Week 22: Charters, Creeds, & the English Civil War

Week 23: Restoration Colonies & the Age of Louis XIV

Week 24: Dissenters in America & the Age of Reason

Week 25: Colonists & Native Americans

  • There are no Church History Objectives for this week.

Week 26: Empires at Odds

Week 27: Thirteen Established Colonies

Unit 4 – Age of Revolutions

Week 28: Shaping Influences on Colonial Culture

Week 29: French & Indian War

Week 30: Give Me Liberty!

Week 31: First Battles for Independence

  • There are no Church History Objectives for this week.

Week 32: Waging the Revolutionary War

  • There are no Church History Objectives for this week.

Week 33: America under the Articles of the Confederation

  • There are no Church History Objectives for this week.

Week 34: Writing the Constitution

  • There are no Church History Objectives for this week.

Week 35: Federal Republic & French Revolution

  • There are no Church History Objectives for this week.

Week 36: Perilous Times: The Adams Administration

  • There are no Church History Objectives for this week.
Literature

General

  • A webpage full of great helps for this year-plan. Check it out!
  • Lots of neat forms at Highland Heritage!
  • Primary Source documents: an exhaustive site for teacher and older students. Begins at 500 BC and keeps going through Early American history.
  • FreeBooknotes.com presents Cliff’s Notes-like help for many works.
  • You won’t believe this Wordsmyth site. Make your own glossary. Type in a list of vocabulary words, and push send. IT’S FREE!
Unit 1 – The Middle Ages

Week 1: Twilight of the Western Roman Empire

Week 2: Byzantine Empire & the Eastern Orthodox Church

Week 3: Byzantine Empire & Rise of Islam

Week 4: The Making of Medieval Europe: Charlemagne

Week 5: Developments During the Viking Age

Week 6: Medieval Life: Feudalism

Week 7: The High Middle Ages

Week 8: The Mongols, Marco Polo, and the Far East

Week 9: The Reshaping of Medieval Europe

Week 10: Early Lights of the Reformation

Unit 2 – Renaissance & Reformation

Week 11: Introduction to the Southern Renaissance

Week 12: The Southern Renaissance & the Early Explorers

  • No Links Available

Week 13: The Southern Renaissance & the Age of Exploration

Week 14: Spanish Dominion & the New World: Aztecs & Incas

Week 15: The Northern Renaissance & Its Scholars

Week 16: The Reformation: Martin Luther & the German States

Week 17: Reformation in Switzerland, England, & Scandinavia

Week 18: Counter Reformation, French Huguenots, & the Netherlands

Week 19: Elizabethan England & the Scottish Reformation

Unit 3 – Of Crowns & Colonies

Week 20: Early New World Colonies & Eastern Europe

Week 21: Puritans in New England

Week 22: Charters, Creeds, & the English Civil War

Week 23: Restoration Colonies & the Age of Louis XIV

Week 24: Dissenters in America & the Age of Reason

  • No Links Available

Week 25: Colonists & Native Americans

Week 26: Empires at Odds

Week 27: Thirteen Established Colonies

Unit 4 – Age of Revolutions

Week 28: Shaping Influences on Colonial Culture

Week 29: French & Indian War

Week 30: Give Me Liberty!

Week 31: First Battles for Independence

Week 32: Waging the Revolutionary War

Week 33: America under the Articles of the Confederation

Week 34: Writing the Constitution

Week 35: Federal Republic & French Revolution

Week 36: Perilous Times: The Adams Administration

Summer Reading:

A Tale of Two Cities

Writing
General
  • Here’s a great site to bookmark for all your graphic organizing needs and questions. What is a Graphic Organizer?
  • This site can be used as you are teaching and reviewing parts of speech. You’ll find matching, concentration, flash cards, and a word search.
  • Click here for another grammar game.
  • Daily Grammar Excellent site!
  • Make online crossword puzzles here. These are great for reviewing vocabulary!
  • Play Word Games
  • At the right is a picture one of our users sent in of the sentence pocket suggested in Marcia’s introductory notes. Click on the picture to see all the details up very close!

SAT Preparation:

Writing College Admissions Essays

Unit 1 – The Middle Ages

Week 1: Twilight of the Western Roman Empire

Week 2: Byzantine Empire & the Eastern Orthodox Church

  • Level 2: The Parts of Speech (printable for your Grammar and Composition Notebook.)
  • Levels 3-7: For reviewing the steps in the writing process, click here.

Week 3: Byzantine Empire & Rise of Islam

Week 4: The Making of Medieval Europe: Charlemagne

  • Levels 4-5: Want to use level-appropriate sentences from the Bible for dictation? Click here.
  • Levels 4-12: If you are beginning to learn or review prepositions this week in grammar, click here for a crossword puzzle that will reinforce this knowledge.
  • Levels 4-12: Preposition word search

Week 5: Developments During the Viking Age

Week 6: Medieval Life: Feudalism

Week 7: The High Middle Ages

  • Level 11: Essays for College Applications

Week 8: The Mongols, Marco Polo, and the Far East

  • There are no helpful links this week.

Week 9: The Reshaping of Medieval Europe

  • No Links Available

Week 10: Early Lights of the Reformation

Unit 2 – Renaissance & Reformation

Week 11: Introduction to the Southern Renaissance

Week 12: The Southern Renaissance & the Early Explorers

Week 13: The Southern Renaissance & the Age of Exploration

  • Level 1: Need more practice on capitalization or punctuation? Click here for more worksheets.
  • Level 6: Venn diagram
  • Level 9: Instructions for creating an outline.

Week 14: Spanish Dominion & the New World: Aztecs & Incas

  • No Links Available

Week 15: The Northern Renaissance & Its Scholars

Week 16: The Reformation: Martin Luther & the German States

Week 17: Reformation in Switzerland, England, & Scandinavia

Week 18: Counter Reformation, French Huguenots, & the Netherlands

Week 19: Elizabethan England & the Scottish Reformation

Unit 3 – Of Crowns & Colonies

Week 20: Early New World Colonies & Eastern Europe

  • Level 2: Sample Aesop’s fables to print/show students before beginning their fables.
  • Great site: all the Aesop’s Fables you’ll ever need! All ages, but supervision is recommended. (We’ve not previewed this entire site, and it seems that stories from other sources are also posted.)
  • Another source from which you can read/download/print a free copy of Aesop’s fables.

Week 21: Puritans in New England

  • Level 2: Sample Aesop’s fables to print/show students before beginning their fables.
  • Great site: all the Aesop’s Fables you’ll ever need! All ages, but supervision is recommended. (We’ve not previewed this entire site, and it seems that stories from other sources are also posted.)
  • Another source from which you can read/download/print a free copy of Aesop’s fables.
  • Levels 3, 6, 9: Learn how to write plays from the Scholastic website.
  • Level 4: Very simple story map (pdf file)

Week 22: Charters, Creeds, & the English Civil War

  • Level 2: Sample Aesop’s fables to print/show students before beginning their fables.
  • Great site: all the Aesop’s Fables you’ll ever need! All ages, but supervision is recommended. (We’ve not previewed this entire site, and it seems that stories from other sources are also posted.)
  • Another source from which you can read/download/print a free copy of Aesop’s fables.
  • Levels 3, 6, 9: Learn how to write plays from the Scholastic website.
  • Level 4: Very simple story map (pdf file)

Week 23: Restoration Colonies & the Age of Louis XIV

  • Level 1: Cluster diagram (pdf file)
  • Level 2: Sample Aesop’s fables to print/show students before beginning their fables.
  • Great site: all the Aesop’s Fables you’ll ever need! All ages, but supervision is recommended. (We’ve not previewed this entire site, and it seems that stories from other sources are also posted.)
  • Another source from which you can read/download/print a free copy of Aesop’s fables.
  • Levels 3, 6, 9: Learn how to write plays from the Scholastic website.
  • Level 4: Very simple story map (pdf file)

Week 24: Dissenters in America & the Age of Reason

  • Level 1: Cluster diagram (pdf file)
  • Level 2: Excellent site that you’ll use all through your book report mini-unit
  • Level 3: Describing Wheel (pdf file), Very simple story map (pdf file)
  • Level 3: Sample Aesop’s fables to print/show students before beginning their fables.
  • Great site: all the Aesop’s Fables you’ll ever need! All ages, but supervision is recommended. (We’ve not previewed this entire site, and it seems that stories from other sources are also posted.)
  • Another source from which you can read/download/print a free copy of Aesop’s fables.

Week 25: Colonists & Native Americans

  • Levels 1, 6: Cluster diagram (pdf file)
  • Level 3: Sample Aesop’s fables to print/show students before beginning their fables.
  • Great site: all the Aesop’s Fables you’ll ever need! All ages, but supervision is recommended. (We’ve not previewed this entire site, and it seems that stories from other sources are also posted.)
  • Another source from which you can read/download/print a free copy of Aesop’s fables.

Week 26: Empires at Odds

  • Level 3: Sample Aesop’s fables to print/show students before beginning their fables.
  • Great site: all the Aesop’s Fables you’ll ever need! All ages, but supervision is recommended. (We’ve not previewed this entire site, and it seems that stories from other sources are also posted.)
  • Another source from which you can read/download/print a free copy of Aesop’s fables.

Week 27: Thirteen Established Colonies

Unit 4 – Age of Revolutions

Week 28: Shaping Influences on Colonial Culture

  • No links for this week.

Week 29: French & Indian War

  • No links for this week.

Week 30: Give Me Liberty!

  • No links for this week.

Week 31: First Battles for Independence

  • No Links Available

Week 32: Waging the Revolutionary War

  • No links for this week.

Week 33: America under the Articles of the Confederation

  • No links for this week.

Week 34: Writing the Constitution

  • No links for this week.

Week 35: Federal Republic & French Revolution

  • No links for this week.

Week 36: Perilous Times: The Adams Administration

  • No links for this week.
Government
General
Unit 1 – The Middle Ages

Week 1: Twilight of the Western Roman Empire

Week 2: Byzantine Empire & the Eastern Orthodox Church

Week 3: Byzantine Empire & Rise of Islam

Week 4: The Making of Medieval Europe: Charlemagne

  • No links for this week.

Week 5: Developments During the Viking Age

Week 6: Medieval Life: Feudalism

Week 7: The High Middle Ages

Week 8: The Mongols, Marco Polo, and the Far East

Week 9: The Reshaping of Medieval Europe

  • No links for this week.

Week 10: Early Lights of the Reformation

  • No links for this week.
Unit 2 – Renaissance & Reformation

Week 11: Introduction to the Southern Renaissance

  • There are no objectives this week.

Week 12: The Southern Renaissance & the Early Explorers

Week 13: The Southern Renaissance & the Age of Exploration

Week 14: Spanish Dominion & the New World: Aztecs & Incas

Week 15: The Northern Renaissance & Its Scholars

Week 16: The Reformation: Martin Luther & the German States

Week 17: Reformation in Switzerland, England, & Scandinavia

Week 18: Counter Reformation, French Huguenots, & the Netherlands

Week 19: Elizabethan England & the Scottish Reformation

Unit 3 – Of Crowns & Colonies

Week 20: Early New World Colonies & Eastern Europe

Week 21: Puritans in New England

Week 22: Charters, Creeds, & the English Civil War

Week 23: Restoration Colonies & the Age of Louis XIV

Week 24: Dissenters in America & the Age of Reason

Week 25: Colonists & Native Americans

Week 26: Empires at Odds

Week 27: Thirteen Established Colonies

Unit 4 – Age of Revolutions

General Resources for this Unit

  • U.S. Government for Kids: everything you need to know for government for kids.
  • Congress for Kids: at each webpage you can read a bit about the topic and then click on “Show What You Know” for a reinforcement activity. If you click on “Play More” it takes you to a list of links for games, quizzes, maps, etc.
Arts & Activities
General
  • Great food link!
  • European Artist: parents please preview; could contain classic nudity
  • Here’s real help with Feast Nights: food timeline and recipes galore! Enjoy!
  • Jamestown Online Adventure: Play an online game to see if you know better than the early settlers did.
  • Puzzlemaker input a list of words and this site will generate crosswords, word searches, codes, etc.
  • Cookie Dough Recipe: A great alternative to salt dough maps.
    • 2 c. smooth peanut butter
    • 2 1/2 c. powdered milk
    • 2 1/2 c. powdered sugar
    • 2 c. white corn syrup
    • Blue icing – lakes and oceans
    • Green sprinkles – plains
    • Clear sprinkles – deserts
    • Chocolate chips – mountains
    • Red candy strips – rivers
    • M&Ms – capitals
  • Try Crayola’s Model Magic: a great lightweight soft modeling substance. It air-dries quickly, and after it’s dry, it can be sanded, painted, or decorated. Model Magic can replace Fimo for most projects suggested in Tapestry.
Unit 1 – The Middle Ages

Week 1: Twilight of the Western Roman Empire

  • For review: Roman domes.

Week 2: Byzantine Empire & the Eastern Orthodox Church

Week 3: Byzantine Empire & Rise of Islam

Week 4: The Making of Medieval Europe: Charlemagne

Week 5: Developments During the Viking Age

Week 6: Medieval Life: Feudalism

Week 7: The High Middle Ages

Week 8: The Mongols, Marco Polo, and the Far East

Week 9: The Reshaping of Medieval Europe

  • A great idea for making stained glass looking projects is to use window cling paints! Special black paints (looks like leading) are filled in with special colored paints. When dry you can peel it off and apply to a window or mirror. Check out “DecoArt Liquid Rainbow Paint, Peel and Stick-On Transparent Paint”, and “Window Art” by Barbara Kane (Klutz).

Week 10: Early Lights of the Reformation

  • Learn about the origin of your family’s surname!
  • Finish all hands-on projects.

Unit Celebration: Medieval Feast

  • Medieval Feast recipes: Click here.
  • General information about Medieval Feasts.
  • A user shared: “We are getting ready for our feast on Saturday, and I went shopping for material to attempt to make costumes. Check out Halloween costume clearance sales! I found great costumes for a nominal fee! Most were priced from $.74 – $4.99. Some things need to be altered a bit, but it cut my work dramatically! Happy Feasting!”
  • Wassail Song
Unit 2 – Renaissance & Reformation

General Resources for this Unit

Week 11: Introduction to the Southern Renaissance

Week 12: The Southern Renaissance & the Early Explorers

Week 13: The Southern Renaissance & the Age of Exploration

Week 14: Spanish Dominion & the New World: Aztecs & Incas

Week 15: The Northern Renaissance & Its Scholars

Week 16: The Reformation: Martin Luther & the German States

Week 17: Reformation in Switzerland, England, & Scandinavia

Week 18: Counter Reformation, French Huguenots, & the Netherlands

Week 19: Elizabethan England & the Scottish Reformation

Unit 3 – Of Crowns & Colonies

Week 20: Early New World Colonies & Eastern Europe

Week 21: Puritans in New England

  • No links for this week.

Week 22: Charters, Creeds, & the English Civil War

Week 23: Restoration Colonies & the Age of Louis XIV

Week 24: Dissenters in America & the Age of Reason

Week 25: Colonists & Native Americans

Week 26: Empires at Odds

Week 27: Thirteen Established Colonies

Unit 4 – Age of Revolutions

General Resources for this Unit

Week 28: Shaping Influences on Colonial Culture

  • How to make a hornbook: links here and here.

Week 29: French & Indian War

Week 30: Give Me Liberty!

  • No links for this week.

Week 31: First Battles for Independence

  • No links for this week.

Week 32: Waging the Revolutionary War

  • No links for this week.

Week 33: America under the Articles of the Confederation

  • Wig making resource. This site includes step by step instructions for how to make a variety of wigs and the information on it can be adapted for making colonial wigs.
  • 18th century clothing: interactive guide

Week 34: Writing the Constitution

Week 35: Federal Republic & French Revolution

Week 36: Perilous Times: The Adams Administration

  • No links for this week.
Field Trips

On this page, we hope to post field trip ideas from YOUR state that dovetail with Tapestry subjects as organized in our week-plans. Please submit your ideas via email, and please try to include the following information:

  • Your email address (for our sake, in case we have questions, but you can tell us if you’re willing to have your email linked as a contact person for more info about your recommendation).
  • The name of the attraction.
  • ANY online links to explain, give information, about the attraction.
  • A short paragraph explaining why the attraction would serve homeschoolers.

THANKS for your help! We will post states as their submissions come in, and under the weeks as listed below:

**IMAX often has great films that are an excellent addition to your academic studies. Find out what is playing, and where, to schedule this activity for your family.

Unit 1 – The Middle Ages

Week 1: Twilight of the Western Roman Empire

  • No links for this week.

Week 2: Byzantine Empire & the Eastern Orthodox Church

Week 3: Byzantine Empire & Rise of Islam

  • A user suggests taking a virtual tour of the Taj Mahal.

Week 4: The Making of Medieval Europe: Charlemagne

  • Find a castle to visit near your home.
  • Ravenwood Castle in New Plymouth, Ohio. A user recommends this bed and breakfast castle in which you can stay in one of the rooms (the King Arthur site was her favorite) or rent a smaller castle of your own in the village. A complimentary breakfast is served in the castle and you may pay extra for dinner and lunch as well. Jan’s family actually stayed in a gypsy wagon in the woods across from the castle which fit in their budget nicely.

Week 5: Developments During the Viking Age

  • A user recommends the Higgins Armory Museum in Worchester, Massachusetts. Worth the drive, residents of CT, MA, NH, and VT will find this to be a satisfying and interesting field trip. Here are a few reasons that she encourages this trip:
    1. Young children to adults can try on and dress up in replica metal helmets and simple period costumes.
    2. Get close to the armor and weapons in the main hall, appreciating the details.
    3. Impressive authentic and replica chain mail displays and detailed descriptions of period curiosities.
    4. Several cultures are represented…the best being the Middle Ages.
    5. Great gift shop that offers items we can really use.

Week 6: Medieval Life: Feudalism

  • A user recommends The Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois. The Harding Collection of Arms and Armor is great to supplement this week’s study. Oh — and admission is free on Tuesdays!

Week 7: The High Middle Ages

  • No links for this week.

Week 8: The Mongols, Marco Polo, and the Far East

Week 9: The Reshaping of Medieval Europe

  • Medieval Show: Make online reservations for your unit celebration: Buena Park, CA; Dallas, TX; Schaumburg, IL; Toronto, ON; Lyndhurst, NJ; Hanover, MD; Myrtle Beach, SC; Kissimmee, FL.
  • Camlann Medieval Village in Carnation, Washington (near Seattle). A living-history-museum project portraying rural England in the year 1376.

Week 10: Early Lights of the Reformation

  • Word Spring Discover Center in Orlando, Florida. Great place to learn about the art and science of translation and how God’s word carries hope around the world to people in their own language.
Unit 2 – Renaissance & Reformation

Week 11: Introduction to the Southern Renaissance

  • Renaissance Festivals in Plantersville, Texas; Holly, Michigan; or Manheim, Pennsylvania. (School days available; check the links for dates.)
  • National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC. A user recommends a guided tour about Renaissance art. An educational tour can be arranged in advance. Of course, it is all FREE!

Week 12: The Southern Renaissance & the Early Explorers

  • Visit the Nina, the most historically accurate replica of a Columbus ship ever built. Click here to see if this exhibit is near you.
  • Corpus Christi has replicas of the Pinta and the Santa Maria.

Week 13: The Southern Renaissance & the Age of Exploration

  • No links for this week.

Week 14: Spanish Dominion & the New World: Aztecs & Incas

  • Cambridge, MA The Peabody Museum at Harvard. A large collection of Aztec items, carvings and replicas of wall paintings that was quite impressive. They also offer a 60 minute hands-on class for 4-7th graders.

Week 15: The Northern Renaissance & Its Scholars

  • No links for this week.

Week 16: The Reformation: Martin Luther & the German States

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Week 17: Reformation in Switzerland, England, & Scandinavia

  • A field trip we have enjoyed several times is MennoHof. MennoHof is an interpretive center for the Amish and Mennonite faiths, located in Shipshewana, Indiana.The museum has several parts, including a history of the Reformation that is portrayed in a room made to look like a dungeon in which Anabaptists were imprisoned. Be sure to watch for the “Anabaptist Catcher” hanging on the wall. There are further exhibits which depict the church history and beliefs of several groups, particularly the Amish, Mennonite, and Hutterites.The museum is appealing to children, with a model of a ship that immigrants traveled on, a play area with Amish-made toys, and a “Tornado Room” (too scary for the littlest ones) explaining the Mennonite role in disaster relief today. You might want to browse their small bookstore area, too. One of my favorite cookbooks came from MennoHof.I specifically remember both Zwingli and Michael Sattler from the history portion of the museum. The exhibits do an excellent job of relating the church history to an understanding of the varying modern-day practices of the Amish, Mennonites, and Hutterites. If you wish to understand the faith basis for the lifestyles modeled by these groups, this is the place to be.

Week 18: Counter Reformation, French Huguenots, & the Netherlands

Week 19: Elizabethan England & the Scottish Reformation

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Unit 3 – Of Crowns & Colonies

Week 20: Early New World Colonies & Eastern Europe

Week 21: Puritans in New England

Week 22: Charters, Creeds, & the English Civil War

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Week 23: Restoration Colonies & the Age of Louis XIV

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Week 24: Dissenters in America & the Age of Reason

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Week 25: Colonists & Native Americans

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Week 26: Empires at Odds

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Week 27: Thirteen Established Colonies

  • A user recommends the Spanish colonial field trip she and her family went on to El Rancho de las Golondrinas in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She said, “The date is 1820, but we used at the end of year 2 Unit 3. They have demonstrators for many colonial crafts like candle dipping, dying wool, a school house, sheep shearing, making tortillas, a mill, etc. Best time to go is special events because they have more demonstrators.”
Unit 4 – Age of Revolutions

Week 28: Shaping Influences on Colonial Culture

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Week 29: French & Indian War

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Week 30: Give Me Liberty!

Week 31: First Battles for Independence

  • A great recommendation for a field trip to the Peabody Museum on the Harvard University campus in Cambridge, MA. There is a great deal of history just on the campus alone. We bought a self guided tour book at the visitor center for $2.00 and then walked around. The tour points out buildings where George Washington’s troops stayed during the Revolutionary war and other interesting facts. Then the Peabody Museum has a large exhibit on Native Americans; they break the tribes into different regions of the country. There are many real artifacts that made everything we have been studying come to life! Definitely worth the trip if you live in the area. (One warning though: there is a section of the museum that focuses on natural history and it is BIG into Darwinism. If necessary, you can talk about it/prepare ahead of time.)

Week 32: Waging the Revolutionary War

  • A user in NH urges families to consider walking the Freedom Trail through Boston, Massachusetts. She shares this about her experiences there:This is a fool-proof hike taking participants to see some of the most well-known historical sites in Boston. It is a free, self-guided path from Boston Common out to the Bunker Hill Monument. See the Old North Church (one if by land, two if by sea) the graves, homes, and monuments of revolutionary leaders. Paul Revere’s home, Boston Latin School, Fanuel Hall, Quincy Market and much more add opportunities to relax and/or eat along the way. Free maps of the trail are available at Boston Common Station.How do you walk the Freedom Trail? Well, we took the “T” (public rail system) to Boston Common. Once above ground there is a huge, can’t-miss-it map erected for visitors that points the way clearly to the sidewalk adjacent to the “T” portal. One simply follows the red stripe and big, bronze medallions embedded on the sidewalks through Boston. Voila! You will pass other T stations in case you need to abandon the trek and don’t want to go all the way back to the Common. (The “T” lines are all color coded and are extremely intuitive and user friendly to ride.)As we wove through the North End, we enjoyed spring flowerboxes on almost every home and shop. We sampled delicious goodies and took great historical photos along the way including our tour of the Old North Church (small fee) and Paul Revere’s Home. If you are especially observant in graveyards and look for placards on buildings you will be rewarded with a lot of those “connected to history moments.” I love that feeling, like when we stood on the very cobble stones that Paul Revere, John Adams, Benj. Franklin and others stood on- right outside Mr. Revere’s doorstep!Ultimately, we crossed the Charles River to Bunker Hill. Along the shore of the Charles there is Old Ironsides and the Boston Tea Party Ship (replica) that you can tour. We chose to explore Old Ironsides and had a guide who explained the life of a naval man of the times in great detail. It was well worth the time, and little extra walking, to experience this facet of American History.All totaled, it was a pretty long day. But, to be fair, we walked at a comfortably slow pace, stopped frequently to explore, read, soak in the history, discuss relevant topics and eat. We checked out every nook and cranny while hiking, and relaxed on the Bunker Hill lawn watching children fly kites before heading back to North Station to be out of the city for dinnertime. It was an unforgettable day, and for our family, we plan NOT to make it a once in a lifetime experience, but hike the trail again!

Week 33: America under the Articles of the Confederation

Week 34: Writing the Constitution

Week 35: Federal Republic & French Revolution

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Week 36: Perilous Times: The Adams Administration

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