Homeschool Friendly Courses Satisfy Your Illinois State History Requirements
Satisfy your state history requirements with Illinois State History From a Christian Perspective. My Illinois State History Funbook adds activities for younger children.
Check out these links for more information on Illinois Homeschool Law
- Homeschooling in Illinois at the Illinois Department of Education
- Read about Homeschooling in Illinois by HSLDA (Requires your info)
Resources for Studying Illinois State History
- Illinois State Museum With three locations, it offers educational resources at each one. Take some time to check out what’s available at this website.
Illinois History Set
Price $36.90
Illinois State History From a Christian Perspective Set
Item #ILSHSET
The Illinois State History From a Christian Perspective Set includes one of each of the following items:
- Master Lesson Plan for State History From a Christian Perspective With the Master Lesson Plan, you decide how long you want to study your state—one semester, 6 weeks, or a concentrated 10-day study.
- Illinois Student Booklet You will need one consumable student booklet for each student in grades 3-12. Co-op or classroom teachers will need their own reference copy.
If you want to include a younger student in this study, My Illinois State History Funbook is available for separate purchase below. It is consumable and you will need one per younger student.
Price $36.90
Student Booklet
Price $20.95
Illinois State History Student Booklet
Item #ILSHSB
Extra copies of the Illinois State History-Christian Perspective Student Booklet are available separately for additional students.
- Lessons for the Illinois Student Booklet cover:
- State Symbols
- History (with a Time Line and map activities)
- Important People and Events
- Geography
- Weather
- Industry & Agriculture
- Map Skills
- Major Cities
- Citizenship
- State and Local Government
- The consumable student booklet includes text, maps, color state symbol pictures, 6 quizzes, 2 tests, and an answer key.
- Designed to be used with the Master Lesson Plan Book, each student needs a copy of the Illinois History Student Booklet.
- Using information and pictures from this student booklet, your student will make a project notebook using a 3-ring binder.
- High school students work independently on their project notebook.
- Students in Grades 3-8 will need more parental supervision.
- The Illinois Student Booklet may come in perfect bound or spiral bound format.
- Both formats include perforated pages for easy removal of the pages.
Price $20.95
Master Lesson Plan
Price $15.95
Master Lesson Plan Book for State History From a Christian Perspective
Item #MLPSTCP
The Master Lesson Plan Book is available for separate purchase when you need additional copies, say if you are using it in a co-op or with a tutor.
- Provides a Basic 30-lesson course.
- Adaptable to your schedule with one-semester, 6-week, and 10-day plans.
- Each lesson will take about 20-30 minutes.
- Multi-level—Adjust lesson difficulty for different grades with lesson options and expansion suggestions.
- It is generic to the State History From a Christian Perspective series—Use with the Student Booklet for any state.
- View a Sample Lesson
- View a Scope and Sequence that shows all the topics covered in this course. It also coordinates the Master Lesson Plan with the Student Booklet for both the 2008 edition of Abeka’s My State Notebook and the new 2022 edition if you choose that option.
If you wish to study more than one state, all you need is to purchase a Student Booklet for that state for each student.
Grades 3-12
Price $15.95
My State History Fun Book
Price $16.95
Illinois: My State History Funbook
Illinois: My State History Funbook is a color-cut-and-paste activity book which provides an introduction to Illinois through fun activities on a pre-school or early elementary grade level.
My Illinois State History Funbook Packet consists of a spiral-bound, pre-formatted activity book with a set of Activity Pages for Illinois. The activity pages include color state symbol pictures, colored sheets with informational cutouts about your state, a simple lesson schedule and instructions for the teacher, and a list of sources for free tourist literature).
- Consumable: Each younger student needs one.
- Covers state symbols, history, important people, geography, weather, citizenship, state government, industry, agriculture, plants and animals, scenery, and recreational spots.
- Your student will construct his own colorful scrapbook about his state, using pictures and cutouts included in the packet along with pictures from free tourist literature.
- Teacher lesson schedule and instructions are included in the Activity Pages.
- Designed to be used with the Master Lesson Plan Book and correlates to the upper-level course so you can include younger students.
- For information about combining this course with Fifty States Under God for Young Learners, please see the publisher’s Suggested Course Combos & Schedules.
- Using information and pictures from this student booklet, your student will make a project notebook using a 3-ring binder.
- Younger students will need more parental supervision.
Price $16.95
50 States Homeschool Curriculum—Study All Fifty United States in One Course
These courses are general studies of all 50 states of the United States in one unit.