Apologia General Science Experiment 7.1

Apologia General Science Experiment 7.1

This was a VERY easy experiment, and one that my Dd really enjoyed doing.  Module 7 is talking about fossils---so we made a mold in play-doh and poured in some Plaster of Paris to make a cast.  Dd learned which is which--the mold and the cast.
I found a great video on YouTube on how to do this experiment, which doesn't normally happen, so you can watch it if you go to YouTube.  If not, you can see the basic steps below---really easy experiment to do! and fun!

Just a reminder of the Student Notebook that you can buy to go along with the text book.  I really like how we have to discuss, think/talk, and write in key points.

I also buy the kit with all the supplies for the experiments, as I have previously not done many experiments b/c I didn't have one simple item.  We actually had all of today's ingredients, but that isn't always the case.  

Items Needed:
 plate, play-doh, vaseline, shells or rocks, Plaster of Paris, water, spoon for stirring, teaspoon for measuring water, and water.

 

The directions said to pick ONE item to make a cast of...but Dd couldn't just pick one!!!  Roll out your play-doh on your plate, rub vaseline over your shells (so the plaster doesn't stick to the shells), press the shells deeply into the play-doh, then remove the shells from the play-doh and mix up the plaster.

The kit has ziplock bags with most of the necessary ingredients.

Stirring the water and the plaster together.

You can see the imprint from the shells into the play-doh.  The vaseline on the shells made them come out perfectly.

Pour the plaster over the grooves.

HOURS have gone by, and now the plaster is dry and hard.  Dd carefully pulls the play-doh off the plaster.

This is what our plaster cast looked like after pulling off the play-doh.

Dd washed off some of the gunk.  She now wants to do a lot more casts this week---she is inspired!

Advise:

You can mess up in two spots, that I saw--1) Careful to add just the right amount of water to the plaster.  Our kit said to add 3 Teaspoons to the plaster; and me, being me, added Tablespoons!  Luckily we have a big tub of plaster on-hand and could add in a little more plaster to get it goopy enough. 2) Make sure you wait until the plaster has really hardened and dried---a few hours---before taking it out of the play-doh.  We did fine on this, but I've done a fair share of plaster work and knew to make her wait longer than she might have.

Here is what our resources look like (below).  I know you can buy these items at Apologia's website http://www.apologia.com/, or Rainbow Resource http://www.rainbowresource.com/, or Christianbook.com http://www.christianbook.com/ 

Exploring Creation with General Science Text Only

General Science Notebooking Journal

General Science Lab Kit

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Sonlight Core G Week 23 “C” March 20-27, 2016

Sonlight Core G Week 23 “C”

March 20-27, 2016

Giz and Grampy Visit

The tomb is empty!!!  Happy Easter!

Hello Friends!  Giz and Grampy are back in Indiana, unhappily sick with our bug!  It was a very lovely visit, and we are so glad to have new memories with them.  The week went by in a complete flash, and they ended up staying a day longer than they had planned.  They left on Thursday morning, right before we headed to our last classes at LINK homeschool Co-op.  I thought about not counting this as a homeschool week, since we didn't have our noses in our books, but, really, she learned a LOT about so many things that I can't do it.  So, I am counting this as a homeschool week, just in subjects we don't always do.  I wish we had more weeks like this, more often; laid back "doing" weeks. Dd worked with Grampy, Giz, and Dh---not me---which was great for her.

Board Game Evenings:

Each evening we played games together at the dining room table—“Pit,” “Skip-Bo,” Yaytzee, and “Life.”  

Grampy's Work:

The other major (and expensive) issue this week, while G&G were here, was our refrigerator died!!!  Good grief!  We have not had two weeks go by that we haven’t had an unexpected and large expense occur!  I guess we are in a season of expense!  It was great having Grampy here to hook up the water (and unhook the old water) to the refrigerators.

Grampy tried to fix our refrigerator, but it was already gone...he did try!

Grampy fixed not one, not two, but ALL three toilets for us!  He had put new parts in two of the toilets when we first moved here, but the old parts broke in the six months that has gone by.  It is hard to believe all three toilets broke down at relatively the same time.  They each still worked, but they ran and ran and wasted water unless we took the top off and held down the flapper. We sure did keep Grampy busy from morning to evening each day. Grampy worked on the truck almost every day.  Dh and Grampy did fix the transmission hose problem, and took the truck for a quick drive around the drive-way, and the BRAKE hose broke!  They lost brakes to the front of the truck!!!  So thankful it happened on our property, and not on the highway!  So, they had to make numerous trips back to Auto Zone and other car places for multiple tools and parts.  The “flair” tool they bought didn’t work, and had to go buy a second one, that did work.  Dh is back to working on the truck by himself again!  We had been waiting on the truck to buy all the wood and things we would need to make the chicken coop, but Dh and Dd used our mini-van and got the things to make a chicken tractor instead.  We need to buy big sheets of plywood for the coop, so that will probably be on hold while we wait for the truck to get repaired.

Outside Classes/Activities:

Dd had Band and Choir classes, her 1:1 private sax lesson, and her last Government/Nursery/and Cake Decorating class.  We also went to the library twice.  Dd had another big test to take, for her homework this week, in her Government class.  


Seeds, Planning, and Planting:

The organic medicinal herb farmer : the ultimate guide to producing high-quality herbs on a market scale

Dd and Giz went to SEED shopping and started four containers of seeds for her future garden.  She has done a good job keeping her seeds misted with water and quite a few have already sprouted. 



Giz and Dd brought in a long table into the “Sun Room” for her new plants.  Dd has checked out “The Organic Medicinal Herb Farmer..” and has been planning out which herbs she wants to grow this summer.  She has been really studying this, and very keen to get started.  It was really nice of G&G to buy her the soil and seeds, so she could get going on it this week.

Fires and Grilling: Dd also made and grilled hamburgers for us all. 

 She loves making fires and kept the wood stove going in the outbuilding for Grampy, to keep him warm while he worked on the truck, and doing well on her grilling.  *Some people* get black on their hamburgers, and it is her goal to not burn any!  She does a good job getting them just right!

Work Tour:
Dh took all of us to his work and gave a tour.  He showed how various machines worked, and turned things on for us.  It was like a mini field trip, for just us!

We took Giz and Grampy to church with us last Sunday, and they enjoyed our little congregation.


Genealogy:

Dd got G&G to go through tons of photos and write down who was who on the back.  Dd has been very keen to study the family genealogy, and they were happy to spend hours with her on it.

Giz and Dd had an afternoon at the sewing machine.

Music:
Each day Giz and Dd spent a good amount of time together on music.  Giz has long been Dd’s favorite piano teacher, and Mrs. March gave Dd a few songs to work on, on the piano.  It was a VERY musical week—at least two hours of music per day. 

Dd showed Giz how "Smart Music" works.  You can see how well or correctly you are playing, and get a score of your performance.  This is a really cool, high-tech thing that blew Giz away---super impressive.  

 Dd knew she had a “challenge” to play at Band this week, so she played extra for that as well.

Dd is reading her assigned “Reader,” 

The Saga of Erik the Viking

Aug 1, 2013

by Terry Jones and Michael Foreman

The Saga of Erik the Viking---almost done.

The Force Awakens (Star Wars)

Jan 5, 2016

by Alan Dean Foster

Fun Reader: Star Wars, the Force Awakens---she is super excited to finally get this at the library.

BIRDS:

Robins and Red Winged Blackbirds

 arrived on March 19^th!

Phoebe’s (Fly-Catchers) arrived on March 21^st.  The Barred Owls have been calling to each other quite often throughout the day.

Kefir: 


I got a batch of Kefir from my friend, Michele, and it was a good batch.  The kurds and whey separated on time, and was easy to see that it was good.  The batch I received from Kim never did that (separated), so I didn’t taste/try it.  I am so glad to have my own grains and can make my own.  I had bought one drink from Aldi and it was almost $3 for one!  It is SO much cheaper to make your own...once you can find someone who has some!  I'm putting it in my smoothies.

Kombucha:

Doing really well, and the SCOBY was getting so big!  Michele told me if your SCOBY gets too big that it makes your Kombucha too acidic.  She told me how she takes off her older SCOBY layers and feeds them to her chickens, so I did that too!  And the chickens LOVED it!!!  I didn’t think they would love it so much, but they did!  My GERD/heartburn had been really bothersome for the first part of the week, so I stopped drinking my Kombucha to see if that would help my symptoms to die down some.  I’m trying new supplements now too.

A major bug has been going around in our area.  We had a lot of people missing from band/choir and co-op.  I’ve had 9 days of it, and am feeling better now, but have a horrible, yucky cough.  Dd has had it  14-15 days and is still trying to shake it off.  Poor Giz managed our company for five days before she woke up with it.  I hope it doesn’t take her as long to get over it as it took us.

Fun Reader:

Star Wars: The Force Awakens

This was a week of ‘electives’---gardening, cooking, building, reading, and genealogy.  It was a really good week.


Some of the dishes Giz made for us:

Pumpkin Pie

Cabbage and ham

Some of the dishes Dd made:

Asparagus with lemon juice

Chicken Tractor:Dd also co-made a Chicken Tractor this week with Dd.  She really likes making things, and this was right up her alley.









Happy Easter! 
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Making Chicken Tractor March 26, 2016

Making a Chicken Tractor 

March 26, 2016

After two months of minor migraines, I had three days of major migraines and being laid up in bed.  Dh and Dd kept themselves very busy making the chicken tractor together.  They spent hours and hours getting it all done, and learning a lot.  I figure we will make another one or two like this one, so we can keep our chickens outside and move-able around our property.  

They came up with this plan together.

They got the plastic netting, instead of the metal kind.

Dd got to do a lot of the work.

They put up the netting on two sides, and left the top and bottom empty.  I'm not sure what the plans are - for their time in the garage they get a cardboard bottom and top--especially to keep the heat in.  It is still very cold here, and they have the two heat lamps on all the time.

I think this is the only picture I took without the cardboard on the cage to help hold in the heat.

The chicks get a warm side and a cool side, so they can go where they feel most comfortable.

They put a cardboard door on each end, that can fold down for us to reach in.  We put cardboard on the tops and sides to help hold in the heat.

You can see the food trough fairly well in this picture.  They are eating the "Chick Starter Food" still, plus I am putting in lettuce, spinach, celery, and any other odd veg I have.  This week I have been cutting up Kombucha SCOBY for them, and they LOVE it!  I was amazed at how they ate that right up each time I offered it.

Here is bowl of cut up (like thick spaghetti) SCOBY from my Kombucha jug.

Can you see the metal feeder trough? it is on the right side of the picture, with a chicken eating out of it.  It works really well.  I like how it can feed all the chicks at the same time.  If I put it in the middle of the cage then they can all fit around it.

See the two clear glass BALL jar water dispensers?  Giz and Grampy brought about four or five of them from the family farm for us to use on our new little flock.  We had bought a plastic one to use before they got here.  The biggest difference between these ol' timey BALL jars and the ones we buy now-a-days is that the old jars are thick and heavier.

Giz and Grampy brought this old chicken cage.  They use to sell off their two year old chickens, and they would put all their flock in these wooden cages and they would stack them up in a truck to travel.  I don't know that we need this, but it is nice to have.  I know appreciate having our chickens use the old family items.

This is another item G&G brought----it is a feeder.  I can see how it would be nice that the chickens can't stand in the food and poop in it.  We haven't used it yet, as we have been using the long metal trough, it fits better in their cage.

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Core G Book List, HISTORY BOOKS ONLY, SL and Add-In's

Core G: History book list; what we read and added in.

Creation Through 1600's
Ancient History
Middle Ages
Medieval History
Renaissance

If you need a list of some book options to slip into your Sonlight Core G, broken down by scheduled week, here is a list I am working on.  Some times SL will schedule a book that you know won't fit into your lessons, and you want to find a replacement---this list may help.  I know my Dd gets tired of so many male main characters, and wants a few female main characters---or perhaps they don't clip with a specific book and really want to drop it.  Hope this list may help someone; I know I love book lists like this!!! This is only the "history" books we read with this core, week by week, I didn't include literature, bible, or fun books.

Favorite Spine books:
 (books that we will be reading off and on through the whole core, or most of the core):

Story of the World: Ancients & Middle Ages, SOTW: Activity Book, SOTW Test Book
Mystery of History: Vol.1: Creation Through Resurrection
Mystery of History: Vol II The Early Church and the Middle Ages by Linda Lacour Hobar
BiblioPlan: Ancients Companion, BP:Ancient Maps,
will be using BP Medieval History Companion & Maps
Invitation to the Classics, A Guide to Books You've Always Wanted to Read
The Kingfisher History Encyclopedia
History Lives Series by Mindy and Brandon Withrow:
First we read, Peril and Peace, then Monks and Mystics, (Courage and Conviction...Hearts and Hands)
Trial and Truimph by Richard Hannula
The Kingdom Strikes Back by Dr. Ralph Winter
Kingfisher History Encyclopedia
YouTube, history video's
Khan Academy, history video's and information

Memoria Press:
The Book of the Ancient World by Dorothy Mills (Reader, Teacher, and Student books)

Sonlight Book of Time with Homeschool in the Woods, Historical Timeline Figures: Creation To Christ and Resurrection to Revolution

Lesser Used Spine Books:
One Million Things: Ancient History DK PUblishing
Usborne Introduction to Archaeology by Abigail Wheatley
Usborne Encyclopedia of World Hisoty by Jane Bingham
The Usborne Internet-linked Encyclopedia of World History 
The Usborne Encyclopedia of the Roman World
The Atlas of Ancient Worlds
Holman Bible Atlas


PB:Picture Book
GN: Graphic Novel

*It needs to be stated that I spent a few weeks doing each week, so there are numerous resources that we used.

Week 1: spent two weeks on it
The Sumerians by Elaine Landau
The Golden Goblet by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
Heroes in Mythology by Jim Weiss
The Kingdom Strikes Back by Dr. Winter and John Holmann
Mara, Daughter of the Nile by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
DVD:
The History Channel Egypt Collection Box Set, The Daily Life of Ancient Egyptians...
Ancient Egypt Unearthed (2009)
Cleopatra by Diane Stanley (PB)
Khan Academy: Law Code of Hammurabi, The Babylonian Mind....various video's.
Pharaoh and Foot Soldiers by Kristen Butcher
Story of the Nile by Anne Millard

Week 2: spent five weeks on it
The Pharaoh's of Ancient Egypt (Landmark) by Elizabeth Payne
Gilgamesh, The Hero by Geraldine McCaughrean
You Wouldn't Want to Be Tutankhamen! by David Stewart
You Wouldn't Want to Be an Egyptian Mummy!  by David Stewart
10 Kings and Queens Who Changed the World by Clive Gifford
Miram by Beatrice Gomley
Tirzah by Travis Lucille
Ancient Egypt by Daniel Cohen
Ancient Wonders by Tim Wood
Ancient Egypt -Eyewitness-by George Hart

Week 3: three weeks on it

DVD: In Search of Myths and Heroes by Michael Wood PBS Home Video
Cleopatra by Adele Geras
Hittite Warrior by Joanne Williamson
The Usborne Internet-linked Encyclopedia of World History

Khan Academy: Ishtar Gate, Towers of Babel, The Cradle of Civilizations, The Sumerians and Mesopotamia's, Sumerian Art, ....

Week 4: one week on it

Ancient China (Eyewitness Books) 2005
God King

Week 5: one week on it
Greek Myths by Olivia Coolidge

Week 6: two weeks on it
Lamps, Scrolls & Goatskin Bottles by Julia Hans
D'Aulaires' Book of Greek Myths
The Trojan War by Olivia Coolidge
Pyramid by David Macaulay

Week 7: five weeks on it
Black Ships Before Troy by Rosemary Sutcliff
Within the Palace Gates by Anna Siviter
Famous Men of Greece by Memoria Press
The Wanderings of Odysseus by Rosemary Sutcliff
Theras and His Town by Caroline Dale Snedeker
Glaudia, the Greek Slave by Emma Leslie (Lamplighter book)
Youtube: Who Were the Greeks, Episode 1
Percy Jackson's Greek God's by Rick Riordan
Percy Jackson series by Rick Riordan
DVD: Clash of the Titans (1981)
Graphic Novels: 
Hades: Lord of the Dead by George O'Connor
Hera: The Goddess and her Glory by George O'Connor
Athena: Grey-Eyed Goddess by George O'Connor
Perseus and Medusa by Blake A. Hoena

Week 8: eight weeks on it
Galen and the Gateway to Medicine by Jeanne Bendick
Tools of the Ancient Greeks; a Kids Guide to the History & Science of Life in Ancient Greece by Kris Bordessa
Audio CD: Galileo and the Stargazers by Jim Weiss
Youtube: The Aeneid: The animated short,
Socrates, and the Socratic Method
Archimedes the Greatest Mathematician
 DVD: The Greeks; Crucible of Civilization, PBS

Week 9: three weeks on it
Beyond the Desert Gate by Mary Ray
The Art of the Etruscans by Shirley Glubok
Khan Academy has a lot under :"Etruscans"
Alexander the Great (DK) by Peter Chrisp
Alexander the Great (World in the Time of...)by Fiona MacDonald
Khan Academy: Ancient Near East, The Cyrus Cylinder, Ancient Persia, Ancient Rome, Royal Tombs of Ur, Afghanistan: The Ancient Thebes with it's Necropolis, OLMEC mask.., Lasting Legacy of Alexander the Great...
The Eagle of the Ninth by Rosemary Sutcliff
DVD: In the Footsteps of Alexander the Great 2010
You Wouldn't Want to Be in Alexander the Great's Army! Jacqueline Morley
Mystery of the Roman Ransom by Henry Winterfield
Tools of the Ancient Romans by Rachel Dickenson
Youtube:
Hoplite Spartan Phalanx: historical real tactics (with historical Greek music in background)
DVD:
PBS Roman City by David Macaulay (very good!!!)
National Geographic, Alexander the Great, the Man Behind the Legend 2004


Week 10: six weeks on it

You Wouldn't Want to Be a Roman Gladiator by John Malam
Tools of the Ancient Romans by Rachel Dickinson
Vinegar Boy by Alberta Hawse
Augustus Caesar's World by Genevieve Foster
Invitation to the Classics by Louis Cowan

YouTube:
Alexander Sarcophagus by SmartHistory
Hannibal: The Man, The Myth, The Mystery by Goddess Mohamed
Dipylon Amphora by SmartHistory
Ezekiah, Attic Black Figure Amphora
Hannibal Verses Rome by Lupi
Exekia, Dionysus Kylix
Hannibal Barca by Twodeez (Parts 1, 2, and 3) very good!
The Great Conspiracy Against Julius Caesar
The Roman Empire or Republic, or which was it? Crash Course, World History, #10 by Crash Course (we are not huge fans of "Crash Course" episodes...there are some issues with these productions, and should be previewed ahead of time)
Julius Caesar Part 1, 2, 3 by Twodeez
Battle of Actium-Antony vs Octavian-by Great Military Battles
Antony and Cleopatra-Ancient Civilizations by Impineusa
A Glimpse of Teenage Life in Ancient Rome-Ray Laurence-
Ted Ed
The History of the Second Triumvirate by Richard Keogh



History DVD's:
Nat'l Geographic: When Rome Ruled: Disc 2:Doomsday Pompeii & Killing Caesar
National Geographic: When Rome Ruled, Disc Two, Doomsday Pompeii, Killing Caesar
History Classics: Ancient Greece: Gods And Battles: Disc 1: Gods and Goddesses
I, Caesar: The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire (Kultur) Disc 1: Julius Caesar, Augustus, Nero 
Rome and Pompeii 2002 by Questar

Week 11: two weeks

The Aeneid For Boys and Girls by Alfred J. Church
Roman Warriors-Age of Conquerors
Clothes and Crafts in Roman Times
Hostage Lands by Douglas Bond

Youtube: Killer Queens-1-Boudicca Part 1 Xixe Tu with Rory McGrath
Killer Queens-2-Boudicca by Xixe Tu

Week 12: two weeks

Victory On The Walls: Story of Nehemiah-Frieda Clark Hyman
Famous Men of Rome
Adara by Beatrice Gomley

Week 13: seven weeks

The Bronze Bow by Elizabeth George Shaw
The White Stag by Kate Seredy
Ides of April by Mary Ray
Flame Over Tara

Week 14: four weeks

The Silver Branch by Rosemary Sutcliff
Peril and Peace-Vol 1-Chronicles of the Ancient Church
A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park
Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare (audio)

Week 15: three weeks
Beowulf: A New Telling by Robert Nye
Youtube:
Polycarp by Randall Niles
Polycarp of Smyrna by Post-Apostolic Church
Beuwulf (1998) TV movie Lupo Canis
Beowulf Characters Part 1 by 60 Second Recap Series
Beowulf Characters Part 2 by 60 Second Recap Series
Beowulf The Plot Part 1 by 60 Second Recap Series
Beowulf The Plot Part 2 by 60 Second Recap Series
Beowulf Summary/Overview by 60 Second Recap Series


Week 16: three weeks
Trial and Triumph by Richard M. Hannula
Drive Through History Vol.3 Bethlehem to Caesarea, Miracles, Messiah, and the Roman Empire
The Story of King Arthur and His Knights by Howard Pyle (audio)
Anna of Byzantium by Tracy Barrett
Youtube: Britain AD Episode 1
Mystery of History: Middle Ages: Lessons 17-24
Story of the World: Middle Ages: Ch. 2
Black Horses For the King by Anne McCaffrey
Peril and Peace


Week 17: four weeks
Black Horses for the Kind by Anne McCaffrey 
Story of the World: Middle Ages: Ch. 3-5
The Hidden Treasure of Gaston by Eleanor Jewett
BiblioPlan Middle Ages Ch. 3
YouTube: lots of history video's, esp. on the History of the Nicene Creed
DVD: Ancient Roads from Christ to Constantine
DVD: Drive Thru History: Holy Lands, Bethlehem to Caesarea, Miracles, Messiah, and the Roman Empire
Week 18: two weeks
Augustine Came to Kent by Barbara Willard
Trial and Triumph by Richard Hannula
Peril and Peace by Mindy and Brandon Withrow
Mystery of History: Middle Ages: lessons 17-24


Weeks 19: one week
BiblioPlan: Middle Ages: Ch. 4
(don't forget we add in BP's Advanced Medieval Maps for each week)


Weeks 20: three weeks
BiblioPlan: Medieval: Ch. 4, 5, 6, 7
Son of Charlemagne by Barbara Willard
Archers, Alchemists, and 98 Other Medieval Jobs You Might Have Loved or Loathed


Weeks 21: three weeks
Archers, Alchemists, and 98 Other Medieval Jobs You Might Have Loved or Loathed
Monks and Mystics
Trial and Triumph
Otto of the Silver Hand
Catherine, Called Birdy
Khan Academy - many history video's, especially on Medieval Book Making, Charlemagne....etc.
The Great and Terrible Quest
The Kingdom Strikes Back
Good Masters! Sweet Ladies, Voices from a Medieval Village


Week 22: One Week
Archers, Alchemists, and 98 Other Medieval Jobs You Might Have Loved or Loathed
DVD: CASTLE by David Macaulay
DVD: Engineering the Impossible
Geoffrey Chaucer Canterbury Tales by Barbara Cohen
BiblioPlan: Medieval: Ch. 8: Vikings
YouTube video's on VIKINGS


Week 23: Three Weeks
Archers, Alchemists, and 98 Other Medieval Jobs You Might Have Loved or Loathed by Priscilla Galloway
The Real Vikings by Melvin and Gilda Berger
The Saga of Erik the Viking
The Second Mrs. Gioconda by E.L. Konigsburg
BiblioPlan Companion (Medieval), Chapter 9
Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare by Edith Nesbit (Chapter on Macbeth)

Week 24: One Week
Monks & Mystics: (What were the Crusades, Bernard of Clairvaus) by Mindy Withrow
Trial & Triumph (Peter Waldo & Alfred the Great) by Richard M. Hannula
YouTube: The Crusades-Pilgrimage or Holy War
Adam of the Road by Elizabeth Janet Gray

Week 25: One Week
Trial & Triumph (Anselm/Bernard Clairvaux/Francis of Assissi) by Richard M. Hannula
Monks & Mystics: Francis Assisi
Macbeth: Movie from library
YouTube: The Siege of Jerusalem

Week 26: Four Weeks
Mystery of History (audio) (lessons 56-69)
The Way of the Warrior  by Chris Bradford (samurai reader)
Monks & Mystics (How the University was Born, Thomas Aquinas, We Called Him the Dumb Ox)
Story of the World, Vol.2, (Chapters 1-10)
Mystery of History (Disc 9 & 10)
Hawksmaid, The Untold Story of Robin Hood and Maid Marion by Kathryn Lasky
The Way of the Sword, Young Samurai, book 2, by Chris Bradford
Magna Charta by James Daugherty

Week 27: Four Weeks
The Shakespeare Stealer by Gary Blackwood
Saladin by Diane Stanley
The Samurai's Tale by Eric Christian Haugaard
BiblioPlan Companion: Medieval: Ch. 16

Week 28: Two Weeks
continued to finish previous books

Week 29: One Week
Shadow of a Bull by Maia Wojciechowska

Week 30: One Week
I, Juan de Pareja by Elizabeth Barton De Trevino

Week 31: Two Weeks
Leonardo da Vinci by Emily Hahn
A Glorious Age in Africa by Daniel Chu
Story of the World, Vol. 2, Ch. 33-34

Week 32: Two Weeks
Mystery of History, Vol 2, Lessons 80-84
Ink on His Fingers by Lousie A. Vernon (on Gutenberg)
Morning Star of the Reformation by Andy Thomson
Famous Men of Renaissance and Reformation (Petrarch, Giotto, Filippo Brunelleshi and Donatello) by Robert G. Shearer
The Monk Who Shook the World by Cyril J. Davey
The Midwife's Apprentice by Karen Cushman
Morning Star of the Reformation by Andy Thomson
BiblioPlan Companion: Ch. 19, Mongol Empire
Famouse Men of the Renaissance & Reformation by Robert Shearer (Lorenzo Valla)
Monks & Mystics (Thomas Aquinas) by Mindy Withrow
Trial & Triumph by Richard M. Hannula (Francis of Assisi, Elizabeth of Hungary)

Week 33: One Week
Mary, Bloody Mary by Carolyn Meyer
Monks & Mystics (John Wyclif) by Mindy Withrow

Week 34-36: Five Weeks 
BiblioPlan Companion, Medieval, Ch. 20-26
Mystery of History, Vol III, lessons 1-4: War of the Roses, Cosimo de Medici & Italian Renaissance, Isabella and the Spanish Inquisition, Ivan the Great...
Master Cornhill by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
Renaissance Artists Who Inspired the World by Gregory Blanch
The Life of Leonardo da Vinci (3 VHS tapes)
Rats, Bulls, and Flying Machines by Deborah M. Prum