The Story of the World 1 Expanded Edition Student + Teacher Set

The Story of the World 1 Expanded Edition Student + Teacher Set

The Story of the World 1 Expanded Edition Student + Teacher Set transforms The Story of the World Volume 1: Ancient Times into a complete, full-year history course for grades 1–4 (and easily adaptable for older students). Covering 5000 BC through 400 AD, this set includes the Student Workbook and Instructor Guide that accompany Susan Wise Bauer's 25th Anniversary Expanded Edition text. (The main text is sold separately.)

Important: This Expanded Edition is only compatible with the 25th Anniversary Expanded Edition of The Story of the World Volume 1. It does not work with earlier editions of the text, activity book, or audiobooks.

The reorganized Instructor Guide turns each chapter into a ready-to-teach lesson. Instead of piecing lessons together yourself, you'll have scripted narration prompts, review questions, mapping activities, sample answers, and organized lesson plans that guide you through the entire year. More than 30 new activities, low-prep options, cross-curricular connections, updated book recommendations, memory work, and field trip ideas give you plenty of flexibility without adding hours of planning.

The Student Workbook puts those lessons into your child's hands with activity pages, map work, puzzles, game boards, craft templates, coloring pages, memory work, and other hands-on assignments that reinforce each chapter. Perforated pages tear out cleanly, making daily lessons easier to manage.

The 25th Anniversary Expanded Edition also broadens the original program with two new chapters on East Asian history, expanded coverage of the Roman Republic, the Han Dynasty, the Silk Road, and Herod the Great, ten additional historical biographies, and dozens of new illustrations and maps. The chapter sequence has been reorganized to create an even smoother chronological journey through the ancient world.

More important than the updates, though, is how the curriculum teaches history. Rather than memorizing isolated facts, your child follows one continuous story from the earliest civilizations through the fall of Rome. Along the way, narration, map work, crafts, and activities help history become something he experiences instead of simply reads.

For parents, that's where this set shines. The Instructor Guide provides the structure, prompts, and answers that keep lessons moving, while the Student Workbook gives your child meaningful ways to interact with the material. Together, they turn an engaging history text into an organized, low-prep history curriculum that's easy to teach and easy to enjoy.