History & Me: A workbook of historic figures and family research Paperback – June 17, 2015

This is described on the back as “A workbook of historic figures and family research,” and it is an interesting blend of both. I’m excited to use this with my 3rd grader, and love how it teaches reading and writing skills in a way that is also teaching about important figures in history and our own family.The first section gives accounts of female historical figures with one page of data, each page asking the student to recount the information in a different way. Ways include: finding the main idea, reading for comprehension, identifying facts, identifying details, recording facts, reading a timeline, create a timeline, compare two people in history, and using notes to write.A short section on biographies include worksheets for writing a biography, biography note taking, how to cite sources, and presentation ideas for the data collected for the biography.There is an American Heroes section with a drawing of, signature from, and facts about a historical figure followed by word scrambles used to answer questions that are not given in the text. I loved the range of people covered here, but would have liked to see other learning tools used besides word scrambles for each page as unscrambling words isn’t a skill I’m concerned about my student having.There is a Presidential Potpourri section with a large paragraph about a president, questions to test reading comprehension, a timeline exercise of the president’s life, a worksheet asking the student to design a monument for the president, a color keyed portrait to color, and a worksheet to help the student write main ideas for a biography of that president. Three presidents are covered (Washington, Lincoln, and Obama), and there is a worksheet for the student to write a letter to Barack Obama with suggestions.The Tracing Your Roots section offers “What’s in a Name?” with fields to analyze the student’s name as well as parents’ and grandparents’ names. There are family interview sheets covering different topics for the student to interview a parent or grandparent, as well as family tree and family heirloom worksheets.It does include an answer key at the end of the workbook.Thanks to NetGalley and Dover Publications for the opportunity to review a digital copy of this workbook.

granddaughter loves it!

I purchased this to be used as a history work book for my 7 year old. This book is crap. The section on US presidents has three presidents in it, and in this order, Lincoln, Washington and Obama. I guess those are the only presidents worth learning about. It took me about 15 minutes to read this "workbook".

A workbook that is full of United States history and learning about it. It even includes learning about the history of your own family! Certificates are at the end of each section rewarding the student for the work that has been done. Besides learning history, one learns how to read critically and learn new vocabulary besides gaining writing skills. I think that it will be fun for students to use this workbook besides getting educated. I enjoyed reading this workbook. I even learned some facts about people that I did not know. This is an excellent book.Disclaimer: I received an arc of this book free from the author/publisher from Netgalley. I was not obliged to write a favorable review, or even any review at all. The opinions expressed are strictly my own.

'History & Me' by Education.com is another in a line of educational workbooks for kids. I've been impressed with some of the other workbooks, but less so this time around.There were some interesting choices for historical figures. Some I was familiar with and others not so much. The first section was called 'She's So Cool' and focused on historical women. The second was called 'American Heroes' and along with the usual folks you might see, there were people like John Adams and Celia Cruz. The third section featured 'Presidential Potpourri' but only featured 3 presidents (Washington, Lincoln and Obama) which felt a bit sparse. The final section, called 'Tracing Our Roots' walks through how to look into your own ancestry a bit.I am all for diversified education, but this book had me scratching my head on the additions and omissions. There should be some balance in who gets focus, but Asians and Latinos seemed to get really shortchanged here, especially Asian Americans. There would seem to be no historic white men after Thomas Edison. Surely we can pick more interesting people than John Adams and Alexander Hamilton for the intended age group. Maybe STEM should be represented a bit more since that is a current focus. Also, the worksheets in the second section seemed to be a lot of the same sort of activity this time around, where the activities were basically reading a paragraph or two then unscrambling a few words. The activities in the first section seem to mirror those in the writing workbook I recently reviewed, but they are stronger than the rest of the book.I received a review copy of this ebook from Dover Publications and NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Thank you for allowing me to review this ebook.