read the world of Christopher Columbus

Read the World of Christopher Columbus

As I mentioned yesterday, for the next week in my Explorers series, I’m going to be sharing our Christopher Columbus unit.  We are blessed to have an amazing library, so I found a lot of great books for this homeschool history unit.  I’ll make a note if I found a particular Christopher Columbus book to be better than others.

read the world of Christopher Columbus with these books

Christopher Columbus books

Most of the books I found are geared for upper elementary, but could be adapted to younger kids with some paraphrasing for length.

Follow the Dream: the story of Christopher Columbus– I loved the illustrations on this one

World of 1492

***The world in 1492– This is similar in size and content to the “Pirateology” style books, which are high interest, it also has on of my favorite kids’ historical authors on it, Jean Fritz.  Sadly I can’t get you a picture of the cover, but this is one of my favorites.

 

The story of Christopher Columbus: admiral of the open seas– If your kids are Magic Treehouse fans, then they’ll like this by the same author.

 

Christopher Columbus and the age of exploration for kids with 21 activities

 

Columbus– It’s Demi, I believe that’s all I need to say.  I love Demi books.

 

The Nina, The Pinta, and the Santa Maria– This is an older book, but I like that it talks about the ships Columbus used

Encounter– I love Jane Yolen books, and this is an interesting look at what the Taino natives thought of the new pale people.

 

Christopher Columbus resources and videos

 

Christopher Columbus Animated Hero Classics– this looked to be really cool, sadly it was checked out, so I have no personal comments on this one

Christopher Columbus– Again this was checked out from our library, but I’m intrigued by the older look at Columbus

Christopher Columbus costume– while I wouldn’t buy this for a homeschool unit unless your kids are super interested, this could be good in a school classroom that will be repeating the unit over and over again

read the world of Christopher Columbus

Come back tomorrow as we attempt to convince King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella to finance Columbus’ expedition.

Age of Exploration unit

See the entire series at The Age of Exploration Unit.


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4 responses to “Read the World of Christopher Columbus”

  1. Phyllis at All Things Beautiful Avatar
    Phyllis at All Things Beautiful

    We are reading Columbus and Sons by Genevieve Faster. That is a good one for Middle School age.

  2. I don’t know that Columbus even gets taught much here in California these days…

  3. This is a terrific list! We should look for some of these books.

  4. Great list for those of us who still celebrate Columbus Day. Yet another topic “forbidden” in some schools. I used this to teach my children history. Thank you!

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