The Story of the World Volume 3 Activity Book
Flexible, hands-on activities that deepen early modern history learning—use as much or as little as fits your family’s style.
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2026 Third-Grade Curriculum Kit
The Story of the World Volume 3: Early Modern Times Activity Book
Reading about explorers, revolutions, emperors, and expanding civilizations is one thing. Building maps, creating projects, playing games, and interacting with those events is where many students start making lasting connections.
Designed to accompany The Story of the World Volume 3 history text, this Activity Book extends lessons covering world history from 1600 to 1850 through hands-on activities, geography work, projects, discussion prompts, and additional reading suggestions.
Students reinforce lessons through activities such as:- Geography exercises and map work
- Review questions and sample narrations
- Coloring pages and hands-on projects
- Historical games and creative activities
- Literature suggestions and encyclopedia connections
- Research activities and extension ideas
Students might pan for gold, color historical figures such as Captain Cook, create Ottoman-inspired designs, play historical games, or explore activities connected to major historical events from the Early Modern period.
Activity suggestions are designed primarily for grades 1–4 but can easily be adapted for grades 5–6.
Because the Activity Book includes multiple activity types, families can choose projects that fit their schedule, teaching style, and student interests rather than feeling pressured to complete every option.
Whether students are mapping, building, researching, discussing, coloring, or creating, the goal is simple: help Early Modern history become something students actively interact with rather than simply read about.
How to Use The Story of the World Volume 3 Activity Book
Please note: The Activity Book is the hands-on companion to The Story of the World Volume 3 history text (also available as an audiobook), sold separately or together as The Story of the World 3 Bundle or in Timberdoodle's curriculum kits. You'll need the text or audiobook to use the Activity Book as intended.- Begin by reading a chapter from the text or listening to the audiobook before opening the Activity Book. The activities work best when your student already understands the historical context.
- After reading, ask your child to retell what happened. Narration reinforces comprehension and prepares him to connect the activities with the people, places, and events he's just encountered.
- Pick what fits. The Activity Book includes maps, geography activities, coloring pages, projects, review questions, discussion prompts, board games, crafts, recipes, literature suggestions, and hands-on activities tied to Early Modern history—far more than any one family will do for every chapter. Choose one or two activities per lesson based on what works for your child and your week.
- Move at a pace that fits your family. Many families work through about three chapters every two weeks, which finishes the program in a standard school year while leaving room for reading, projects, discussion, and review. Slower or faster is also fine.
- Adjust by week. Some weeks call for map work and discussion. Others have room for the bigger projects—panning for gold, creating historical games, or trying period-inspired art.
Helpful reminders:
Maps and geography activities help your child connect events with places.
Discussion questions and narration strengthen retention.
The audiobook works well for additional review throughout the week, even after the chapter is finished.
You're not behind if you skip activities. The Activity Book is built to be picked from, not finished.
Whether your child is mapping, discussing, building, researching, creating, or playing, the goal is the same: help Early Modern history become something he interacts with, not just something he reads.
View a sample from Activity Book 3
- Hands-on activities
- Color-in review cards for each chapter
- Covers 1600 to 1850 AD
- From Elizabeth the First to the forty-niners
- 45 new coloring pages
- Brand new, beautiful boards for board games
- Improved art and easier-to-read directions for craft templates (including new paper dolls)
- Updated book lists that combine the best selections from the Original edition with the best of the books published in the past 10 years about the related topics
- New review cards for every chapter
- Better typesetting, easier to read and navigate
- Parent answer key for the map work
Publisher's Information
Author: Susan Wise Bauer
Number of Pages: 682
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Well-Trained Mind Press
Edition/Copyright: 2020
Made In: USA
ISBN: 9781945841477
Consumable: Yes
Reproducible: Yes, for a single family
For families: You may make as many photocopies of the maps and other Student Pages as you need for use WITHIN YOUR OWN FAMILY ONLY. Schools and co-ops MAY NOT PHOTOCOPY any portion of the Activity Book.
Publisher's Recommended Age Range: 8-13
Faith-Based: No
Awards and Endorsements:
The Old Schoolhouse Excellence in Education Winner
Awards and Endorsements:Find answers to the most frequently asked questions about this product below:
Families can successfully begin with whatever time period most interests them. Some families prefer starting with ancient times and unraveling the story sequentially until modern times. Yet because the full scope of history is taught repeatedly up through high school, it is okay to skip volumes, knowing that the same events will be covered later.
One difference between the two series is their target age. The Story of the World is primarily for elementary students, with Volume I recommended for 1st through 4th grade and Volume IV for 4th through 8th grade. The Mystery of History's reading level begins at about 4th or 5th grade in Volume I and progresses to 10th or 11th grade in Volume IV, although it is easily adaptable for multiple ages.
Another key difference is the religious perspective. The Story of the World aims to narrate from a neutral perspective. It covers major religious characters and historical events but does not endorse a particular religious view. The Mystery of History is written from a clearly Christian perspective and integrates biblical and church history into the text.
A minor difference between the two series is the student work involved. The Story of the World revolves around the narrative, so all activities, while engaging, are optional. The Mystery of History is also narrative-based but expects more student work. Nonetheless, it is highly adaptable to each student's age and family preferences.
Throughout history, religion has played a major role in shaping the world for significant reasons:
- Religion has shaped the development of civilizations. Many of the world's major civilizations, such as ancient Egypt, Greece, and Rome, were founded on religious beliefs. Religion has also played a role in law, government, and education development.
- Religion has been a source of conflict and violence. Wars have been fought over religious differences, and religious persecution has been common throughout history.
- Religion has influenced art, music, and literature. Religious themes have been a source of inspiration for artists, musicians, and writers for centuries.
In short, religion is mentioned in world history because it has greatly shaped human societies and cultures throughout history. Religion has been a complex and multifaceted force in human history, and its influence continues to be felt today.
- October 3, 2024
Great, but lengthy.
Tasha G.
I love the activity book for the map work, the questions, and some of the activities. However, it really is quit lengthy and I find that I don't use half of it or we would never learn anything besides history in a week. My idea was to split it up and use it twice. The first time when they are younger where we focus on the map work and the projects. The second time when they are older and focus more on the questions and comprehension. This has helped get more use out of the books and allows them to learn even more form them!
- March 12, 2022
Love it
Jill W.
We have used this for a few years now and although it is parent heavy, we love it. The activities are awesome, the information, and the layout. It works for us.
- April 7, 2021
Love this Workbook
Rachel C.
It took me a little bit to figure out that all of our actual worksheets (Student pages) were in the back of the book. Once I found them, I put a sticky note in place to find our location and once we got started it was SOOO easy to use and my son loves the coloring pages!
- March 12, 2021
It works.
Samantha
The activity book is a little overwhelming. First of all, it is a huge book, but it is nice that it include the parent and teacher pages in it. It is nice that there are so many different activity options for each chapter, however, we usually only used the map work and comprehension questions. It works for us but isn't super exciting.
- February 21, 2021
Parent Resource
Melissa
This is a parent heavy resource. I thought it might be more of a workbook, but it's more of a list of activities that could accompany each chapter. For a parent teaching multiple grades who aren't all using this resource, it takes a bit more planning that I had anticipated from the kit.
- December 13, 2020
Love the activity ideas!
Tatyana L.
The activities there make history more fun and kids love trying out the recipes !
- October 22, 2020
Worth The Time
Nina S.
This book does require preparation but its worth it. It is parent heavy but the information is great and age appropriate and the activities provide variation and engagement with the materials. I suggest looking at the activity options and picking 1, otherwise you may feel overwhelmed, and some weeks we just spent time reading and discussing. I think its a wonderful comprehensive resource!
- September 17, 2020
good
Kat
Good but I read the chapter with my daughter and dont need much guidance.
- September 17, 2020
Comprehensive History
Nina S.
This product is an in depth history lesson and age appropriate. It has great stories and provides opportunities for great conversations. There are a variety of activity options that are simple to do with things available in the home and coloring sheets for little listeners to work on throughout the stories.
- September 3, 2020
Great companion book
Heidi S.
This resource is a great companion to the book. Surprisingly my third-grader faithfully and willingly does one of the dictations after each reading - it’s a great opportunity for her to practice her budding cursive and learn note taking skills for later grades. At her age we don’t really do the questions, but we do pause during the reading to discuss. She’s past wanting to do all the coloring sheets, but if it strikes her fancy she will, especially if her little brother wants to color, and then they’ll both quietly color and listen. We haven’t done any of the more complicated project suggestions yet but definitely will do in the future.
