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Pandia Press: History

Effortlessly add Pandia Press History curriculum to your homeschooling day with these complete lesson plans including embedded curriculum study guides for use with your Homeschool Planet subscription. Through storytelling, creative hands-on activities, literature suggestions, cultural exploration, and more, each comprehensive study guide and accompanying narrative chapter book the History Quest series from Pandia Press provides an engaging, full-year curriculum that takes students in grades 1-5 on a journey through time, bringing history to life. Each study guide in History Odyssey for grades 6-12 presents an engaging, full-year curriculum designed to transition students to independent learning as they explore important events in human history, from ancient civilizations to modern times, through primary and secondary history sources, classic literature and biographies, creative hands-on activities, and more.

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Pandia Press History and Homeschool Planet

These lesson plans applied within your Homeschool Planet planner will help you stay on track in your Pandia Press History course.

Study Guides include:

  • History Travel Log entries (timeline/geography activity)
  • Terms & Concepts (learning goals)
  • Map work
  • Comprehension/Writing/Dictation/Copywork
  • Crafts/Cooking/Artwork hands-on activities
  • History blackline maps
  • Hands-on activity instructions
  • Literature and weblink enrichment recommendations
  • Unit schedules and supply lists
  • Student coloring and activity pages

What's Included with each Lesson Plan:

  • The official publisher-created lesson plans
  • Daily assignments, including videos, quizzes, and tests.
  • Direct links to weekly vocabulary practice flashcards and games.
  • Super bundle includes all 4 Visual Latin lesson plans.
  • Check boxes for your students to check off as they complete their assignments, giving them a sense of accomplishment and you a permanent record of their achievement.
  • Automatic rescheduling of assignments when “life happens”
  • "Daily Digest” email reminders to help you and your child stay on track
  • Grade your student’s work to recognize or reward completion.
  • Track attendance for states where this is required.
  • Generate reports, reminders, and much more!
  • Automatic lesson plan updates as needed, with enhancements, link updates, etc.
    Notes: You decide whether to apply ongoing updates.

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History Quest: Early Times For Grades 1 - 6
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The History Quest: Early Times lesson plan for Homeschool Planet contains the entire study guide for a full year’s history curriculum for elementary-age children. Each weekly unit takes a chapter of the narrative history series, History Quest: Early Times and turns it into a robust unit study with a week’s worth of engaging activities. Your student will gain a broad and deep understanding of History through readings, geography activities, discussions, writing assignments, coloring pages, crafts, and more. Also included throughout the curriculum are four weeks of warm and cozy ancient literature study, where parents and students snuggle up together to enjoy time-honored tales from four ancient civilizations across the world. The History Quest: Early Times Study Guide is your child’s first step in a lifelong quest to explore and appreciate history.

History Quest Study Guides includes


  • History Travel Log entries (timeline/geography activity)

  • Terms & Concepts (learning goals)

  • Map work

  • Comprehension/Writing/Dictation/Copywork

  • Crafts/Cooking/Artwork hands-on activities

  • History blackline maps

  • Hands-on activity instructions

  • Literature and weblink enrichment recommendations

  • Unit schedules and supply lists

  • Student coloring and activity pages


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HQ: Early Times Lesson Plan Only For Grades 1 - 6
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History Quest: Middle Times For Grades 1 - 6
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The History Quest: Middle Times, lesson plan for Homeschool Planet contain sthe entire study guide for a full year’s history curriculum for elementary-age children. Each weekly unit takes a chapter of the narrative history series,History Quest: Middle Times and turns it into a robust unit study with a week’s worth of engaging activities. Your student will gain a broad and deep understanding of History through readings, geography activities, discussions, writing assignments, coloring pages, crafts, and more. Also included throughout the curriculum are four weeks of warm and cozy literature study, where parents and students snuggle up together to enjoy time-honored tales from civilizations across the world. The History Quest: Middle Times Study Guide is your child’s first step in a lifelong quest to explore and appreciate history.

History Quest Study Guides includes


  • History Travel Log entries (timeline/geography activity)

  • Terms & Concepts (learning goals)

  • Map work

  • Comprehension/Writing/Dictation/Copywork

  • Crafts/Cooking/Artwork hands-on activities

  • History blackline maps

  • Hands-on activity instructions

  • Literature and weblink enrichment recommendations

  • Unit schedules and supply lists

  • Student coloring and activity pages


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HQ: Middle Times Lesson Plan Only For Grades 1 - 6
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History Quest: US History & Civics For Grades 3 - 6
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History Quest: US History & Civics lesson plans for Homeschool Planet contain the entire study guide for a full year’s history curriculum for elementary-age children. Each weekly unit takes a chapter of the narrative history series, History Quest: US History & Civics, and turns it into a robust unit study with a week’s worth of engaging activities. Your student will gain a broad and deep understanding of US History through readings, geography activities, discussions, writing assignments, coloring pages, crafts, and more. History Quest: US History & Civics Study Guide is your child’s first step in a lifelong quest to explore and appreciate history. 

History Quest Study Guides include


  • History Travel Log entries (timeline/geography activity)

  • Terms & Concepts (learning goals)

  • Map work

  • Comprehension/Writing/Dictation/Copywork

  • Crafts/Cooking/Artwork hands-on activities

  • History blackline maps

  • Hands-on activity instructions

  • Literature and weblink enrichment recommendations

  • Unit schedules and supply lists

  • Student coloring and activity pages


$39.95 $33.95

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HQ: US History & Civics Lesson Plan Only For Grades 3 - 6
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Modern History Bridge For Grades 3 - 7
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Modern History Bridge is a teacher/parent guide that provides step by step lessons to teach world history from colonization to the Modern Era. Modern History Bridge serves to complete the three–year world history cycle covering events from the end of Middle Times through modern history.

Study Guide for Modern History Bridge includes: 

  • 20 modern times history blackline maps

  • Hands-on activity instruction

  • Extensive library lists for each lesson

  • Suggested schedule for a 36-week school year

  • 36 detailed lessons (each lesson includes one week of assignments) covering:

  • Literature and history readings

  • Writing activities

  • Reading comprehension questions

  • Geography

  • Timeline work

  • Activities

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Modern History Bridge Lesson Plan Only For Grades 3 - 7
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History Odyssey: Ancients Level 2 (Rev. Ed) For Grades 5 - 8
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From first civilizations to the Fall of Rome, Ancients level two is a complete one-year curriculum guide that combines history with literature, world geography, and writing activities. This comprehensive course covers the successes and failures of Ancient civilizations from all parts of the world such as the Egyptians, the Greeks, the Romans, the Mayans, the Hittites, the Persians, the Mesopotamians, and many others. Ancients level two is a student guide that provides step by step lessons to teach world history from 6000 BCE to 500 CE. Level 2 History Odyssey guides are written to be used independently by students with the parent/teacher assisting when necessary with lessons and assessing the student’s completed work. Ancients level two does not require an answer key due to the subjectivity of the assignments that encourage critical thinking (i.e. there is rarely any one correct answer).  Answer keys to map work are found in the main spine (The Kingfisher History Encyclopedia).

Literature and writing instructions and assignments found in the course include two-level outlining of history readings and writing paragraph summaries.

Critical thinking with history studies found in this course include identifying connections and cause/effect relationships, timeline analysis, and identifying connections between geography and history through map work.

This guide includes:


  • 21 ancient history blackline maps

  • Worksheets

  • Recommended resource list

  • 72 detailed lessons covering:

    • Literature

    • Writing

    • Map work

    • Timeline analysis

    • Research






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HO: Ancients Level 2 Lesson Plan Only (Rev. Ed.) For Grades 5 - 8
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History Odyssey: Middle Ages Level 2 For Grades 6 - 9
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From fall of Rome to the Renaissance, Middle Ages level two is a complete one-year curriculum guide that combines history with literature, world geography, and writing activities. Students study events from the middle ages including monasticism; the Vikings; knighthood; the Crusades; the Dark Ages, feudalism; early America; African and Asian dynasties; and the Renaissance. This comprehensive course covers success and failures of civilizations in the Middle Ages from all parts of the world such as Normans, Byzantines, Mongols, Aztecs, Hapsburgs, Tudors, and many others. Middle Ages level two is a student guide that provides step by step lessons to teach world history from 500 to 1600. Level 2 History Odyssey guides are written to be used independently by students with the parent/teacher assisting when necessary with lessons and assessing the student’s completed work. Middle Ages level two does not require an answer key due to the subjectivity of the assignments that encourage critical thinking (i.e. there is rarely any one correct answer).  Answer keys to map work are found in the main spine (The Kingfisher History Encyclopedia).


Literature and writing instructions and assignments found in the course include three-level outlining of history readings, How to Write a Biography, creating plot diagrams, creating character webs, and identifying elements of an epic.

Critical thinking with history studies found in this course include identifying connections and cause/effect relationships, timeline analysis, and identifying connections between geography and history through map work.

This guide includes:


  • 29 middle ages history blackline maps

  • Worksheets

  • Recommended resource list

  • 113 detailed lessons covering:

    • Literature

    • Writing

    • Map work

    • Timeline analysis

    • Research






$46.95 $43.95

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HO: Middle Ages Level 2 Lesson Plan Only For Grades 6 - 9
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History Odyssey: Early Modern Level 2 For Grades 6 - 10
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From the Stuart Dynasty to Lewis and Clark, Early Modern level two is a complete one-year curriculum guide that combines history with literature, world geography, and writing activities. Students study events from early modern history, a time of nationalism and revolution: scientific, agricultural, industrial, French, and American. It was also a time of civil war and rebellion: English, Spanish, Scottish, Russian, and American. And it was a time of advancement and expansion: the Age of Reason, Galileo, Lewis and Clark, East India Trading Company, Mercantilism, and the Enlightenment. This comprehensive course covers success and failures of civilizations in Early Modern history from all parts of the world. Early Modern level two is a student guide that provides step by step lessons to teach world history from 1600 to 1850. Level 2 History Odyssey guides are written to be used independently by students with the parent/teacher assisting when necessary with lessons and assessing the student’s completed work. Early Modern level two does not require an answer key due to the subjectivity of the assignments that encourage critical thinking (i.e. there is rarely any one correct answer).  Answer keys to map work are found in the main spine (The Kingfisher History Encyclopedia). A rubric is provided to assist in grading essay writing.


Literature and writing instructions and assignments found in the course include advanced outlining of history readings, attribution of sources, How to Write a Biography, How to Write an Essay, persuasive writing, creating a storyboard, literary analysis, creating a character web, and identifying elements of an epic.

Critical thinking with history studies found in this course include identifying connections and cause/effect relationships; evaluating the validity and type of history sources; timeline analysis; detailed examination of revolutions, wars, and conflicts; and identifying connections between geography and history through extensive map work.

This guide includes:


  • 21 early modern history blackline maps

  • Worksheets

  • Recommended resource list

  • 89 detailed lessons covering:

    • Literature

    • Writing

    • Map work

    • Timeline analysis

    • Research






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HO: Early Modern Level 2 Lesson Plan Only For Grades 6 - 10
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History Odyssey: Modern Times Level 2 For Grades 7 - 12
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From British Imperialism to the American Civil War to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Modern Times level two is a complete one-year curriculum guide that combines history with literature, world geography, and writing activities. Students study events from modern times history, a time of imperialism, nationalism, manifest destiny, and technology. And it was a time of world war and attention to human rights. This comprehensive course covers success and failures of civilizations in modern history from all parts of the world. Modern Times level two is a student guide that provides step by step lessons to teach world history from 1850 to 2000. Level 2 History Odyssey guides are written to be used independently by students with the parent/teacher assisting when necessary with lessons and assessing the student’s completed work. Modern Times level two does not require an answer key due to the subjectivity of the assignments that encourage critical thinking (i.e. there is rarely any one correct answer).


Literature and writing instructions and assignments found in the course include advanced outlining of history readings, poetry and political cartoon/advertisement analysis, attribution of sources, How to Write a Research Paper, How to Write an Essay, creating storyboards, persuasive writing, literary analysis, conducting interviews, presenting oral reports and presentations, and historical and geographical analysis of settings in literature.

Critical thinking with history studies found in this course include identification of connections and cause/effect relationships; evaluation of the validity and type of history sources; analysis of historical documents, legislation, and speeches; timeline analysis; detailed examination of imperialism and nationalism in modern history; detailed evaluation of wars, conflicts, and regimes; in depth study of various political doctrines; and identification of connections between geography and history through extensive map work.

This guide includes:


  • 23 modern times history blackline maps

  • Worksheets

  • Recommended resource list

  • 99 detailed lessons covering:

    • Literature

    • Writing

    • Map work

    • Timeline analysis

    • Research






$46.95 $43.95

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HO: Modern Times Level 2 Lesson Plan Only For Grades 7 - 12
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History Odyssey: Ancients Level 3 (Rev. Ed.) For Grades 9 - 12
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From first civilizations to the fall of Rome, Ancients Level Three is a complete one-year curriculum guide that combines history with literature, world geography, and writing activities. This comprehensive course covers the successes and failures of Ancient civilizations from all parts of the world such as the Egyptians, the Greeks, the Romans, the Mayans, the Hittites, the Persians, the Mesopotamians, and many others. Ancients Level Three is a student guide that provides step by step lessons to teach world history from 6000 BCE to CE 500. Level 3 History Odyssey guides are written to be used independently by students with the parent/teacher assisting when necessary with lessons and assessing the student’s completed work.

Literature and writing instructions and assignments found in the course include how to read classic literature, how to write a thesis statement, defining epic literature, essay writing, literature matrixes, literary analysis, logic and rhetoric as applied to literature and history readings, producing critical biographies, comprehending literature through storyboards, advanced outlining of history readings, and more.

Critical thinking with history studies found in this course include identification of connections and cause/effect relationships, compare and contrast ancient civilizations, timeline analysis, thorough analysis of primary sources including historical speeches and historical political writings, and decertification of connections between geography and history through extensive map work.

This guide includes:


  • 21 ancient history blackline maps

  • Worksheets

  • How to Read a Book Study Guide (applicable parts)

  • Recommended resource list

  • 165 detailed lessons covering:

    • Literature

    • Writing

    • Map work

    • Timeline instructions

    • Research




$46.95 $43.95

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HO: Ancients Level 3 Lesson Plan Only (Rev. Ed.) For Grades 9 - 12
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