We have a new resource in our homeschool: Answers in Genesis’ History Revealed. I am learning about spiritual revivals that occurred in the United States in the early 1800s. It is the Biblical basis of history that I now realize I never had in my schooling. I’m so thankful my children are learning HIS-story the first time around. Not only that, Diana Waring and her resources have them excited about it!
~Don’t miss the giveaway at the end!! We received these Answers in Genesis History Revealed resources in exchange for an honest review. All opinions are our own and we love the benefits and blessings we are continuing to see from this multi-age study. Please see our disclosure policy.
What is Answers in Genesis History Revealed Curriculum?
History Revealed is written and recorded by Diana Waring and published by Answers and Genesis. Ms. Waring is known as a “history evangelist”. Just take a listen to her audio lessons and you won’t be able to wait until it is time for your history studies either!
What is Included in the Family Curriculum Pack?
- Teacher Guide – this is gold! Complete with structural overview, goals for the teacher, goals for the student, traditional schedule and alternatives, evaluation and assessment (thank you, that really helps with high school!), worldviews in the study of history, teachers as followers of the Lord. Plus the teacher guide explains the foundation of learning for History Revealed (more explained below under How We Use History Revealed in Our Homeschool)
- Student Manual – this is your main text with suggestions for additional resources. Read aloud from it or hand it to your older child to read independently.
- Test Kit
- History Revealed: Digging Deeper audio
- History Revealed: True Tales audio
- History Revealed: What in the World? audio
- Links to additional online resources
How We Use History Revealed in our Homeschool
We have been enjoying the Full Family Curriculum Pack – World Empires, World Missions, World Wars. What I love about this history and Biblical worldview resource is that I can use it for all of our ages. Yes, for kindergarten, second grade, sixth grade, ninth grade and tenth grade. In our homeschool, we do the basic three Rs in the morning.
Then during lunch or immediately after, we enjoy all our other subjects (on a rotation throughout the week). On our history days we follow the teach guide suggestions – listening to the audio CDs, doing a hands on activity or project…
Author Diana Waring’s description via her Pinterest pin: ” Napoleon to Korea (1800 AD to 1950 AD): Napoleonic Wars, the Modern Missions Movement, William Cary’s work in India, the Industrial Revolution, the British Empire, the growth of the United States, and the World Wars, the Korean War, and Jim Elliot. Discover not only the kings and politicians, the artists and musicians, the scientists and inventors, but also the amazing fingerprints of our redeeming God and His people during one of the most tumultuous times in world history.”
Now some of you may remember that we are big Tapestry of Grace fans. Yes, yes we are. And History Revealed is a beautiful complement to all of our Tapestry studies. In fact, the History Revealed student manual has taken center as an anchor text. We are studying the same part of history. And I happen to have a thing for curriculum that meets the needs of multiple ages while making it easier on mom! We shall continue to use both.
The Foundation of History Revealed Curriculum
Well, not only is it Biblical, take a look at what are called the phases:
- Phase One: The Introductory Week (this week appeals to your ‘feeler’ learners). You will talk together, gather resources for digging deeper.
- Phase Two: The Exploration and Discovery Week (appealing to your ‘thinker’ student) There is research and reporting, brain stretchers, time line work and vocabulary.
- Phase Three: The Hands-On Week (your sensory learners will thrive!) Maps and mapping, art appreciation, architecture, science, music and cooking.
- Phase Four: The Expression Week (the intuitor among you will be loving it) This phase leans heavily “In Your Own Way” with suggestions for activities and projects in linguistics (journalism, poetry, prose), art (painting/drawing, graphic design, cartooning, sculpting), music (compose, perform), drama (comedy, puppetry), movement (miniature action, pantomime, dance) and even conceptualization.
- Each phase ends with a Student Self-Evaluation.
There is so much that appeals to each of our ages in different ways. Which leads me to…
History Revealed Speaks to Learning Styles
In our home we have all kinds of learners.
Visual learner: “I like our new history. I love reading the book and listening to the recordings – I love how excited the author gets. You can tell it is what she is really passionate about.” ~ 16-year-old
Auditory learner: Eldest Son (14-year-old) thrives on hearing anything read aloud. Precisely why he enjoys Teaching Textbooks math – the lecture. So, when those CDs come on, he is close by for sure.
Kinesthetic learner: Middle Girl (11-year-old sixth grader) squealed when she saw that she could choose to act out a story. She loves to make visual display boards and reports of what she is learning.
Where Can You Find History Revealed?
You can find it spread out on the floor of our family room, on the end table – and the audio CDs often are found in the family van. But you can find your copy of History Revealed is available from Answers in Genesis. Each volume is $99 and all three volumes are available for a special price of $269 (a $423 value!) Spend some time on their site exploring the different volumes. Listen to audio samples and more.
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Now for the Giveaway!
Answers in Genesis is offering one (1) set of History Revealed – winner’s choice of volume – to a Curriculum Choice reader (a $99 value!)
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Homeschooling for over a dozen years now, Tricia faces a daily dose of chaos with five children from preschool to high school. She is author of art curriculum for all ages and a series of cookbooks at Hodgepodge. She and her husband, Steve (who writes app and technology reviews), are co-owners of Curriculum Choice.
Homeschooling since 2000, Tricia faces a daily dose of chaos with five children. She has seen the fruits of home education with three grads so far! With their You ARE an artist art curriculum she, "Nana" and her family are passionate about growing a love of art. She also shares helpful homeschool habits at Your Best Homeschool and is author of the book, Help! I’m Homeschooling! She and her husband, Steve, are owners of The Curriculum Choice.
I am interested in the AIG history curriculum. I have several copies of the AIG magazine, and had only previously heard of their curriculum for science.
Ken Hamm was recently at my church – the wealth of knowledge he has is truly remarkable! I can’t recommend this enough!!!
I love the fact that this can work for all ages! Would love to win.
I was aware that they offered curriculum, but I haven’t tried any of their curriculum pieces yet 🙂
We have used their earth science program.
This really interests me for home schooling our 3 kids. I would love to win!
We use their science curriculum and love it!
I have used their “Answers for Kids” Bible Curriculum. My kids have seen a video of Ken Ham – he’s great! I would LOVE to see the history curriculum.
I have almost used their Ancient Civilization curriculum before. There are just so many good ones out there. We also have Ken Hamm’s DVDs and several other AIG books. Love all their materials!
We have the “Answers for Kids” Bible Curriculum so that my boys learn about creation from a Young Earth perspective. Our church used the same curriculum for summer program and during the year uses the Answers Bible Curricum.
I haven’t used AiG, but I have really wanted to!
I have used AIG for science. We used their New Answer Book last year.
We are currently using AiG’s God’s Design for Science “Our Universe”.
Thank you for the review! History Revealed sounds like a great resource. Our family loves AiG!
I have had my eye on this curriculum for years and am so curious about it. I’m wondering why you are using it and Tapestry of Grace at the same time- is this one not enough? Does it need something like Tapestry to flesh it out a bit more? Are there literature suggestions? Would you do a post of how you use it with all your different ages? Obviously, I’m full of questions here! Thank you!
MacKenzie – We have been using and loved Tapestry of Grace for years for all our ages before we found out about this great resource as well. I jumped at the chance to use and review anything by Answers in Genesis and Diana Waring! (We are decades-long AiG fans – even before my husband and I had children.) We are so blessed to have both resources to use this year. Either History Revealed or Tapestry of Grace – each by themselves – would definitely be more than you’d ever need. But we are having a ball with both! (e.g., I am the one that always reserves ALL the books possible at the library for a topic of study – not just the ones suggested). In my opinion neither Tapestry nor History Revealed need something else to flesh it out. I just have a unique perspective having used Tapestry for years (and my readers know that I use and love Tapestry so I needed to mention that). Thanks for asking your question so that I could explain it a bit more.
Yes, History Revealed offers literature suggestions for all ages in each volume and unit. And I am sure I will be doing a follow up post with a little more explanation on how we use it with all our ages. Thanks!
I’ve been looking at this curriculum for a couple of years. Winning it would amazing.
My son is just now beginning the AIG hs sci fossils.
We use Answers in Genesis “What We Believe” Series. I am very interested in the History and Science, too!
I LOVE everything from AIG. I was planning on buying the entire series in a year or so because we are going to use these in our homeschool. Winning it would really help our budget.
Oh this looks so intriguing. I love AIG and Diane Waring. Hearing you talk about integrating it into TOG makes me think I could with our KONOS too.
I was just looking into this curriculum this weekend. Thanks for your review!
I LOVE AIG! So excited to learn from you that they now have history! We have a ton of their science books! So thrilled!
We so need a new history curriculum and this looks like it would work well with all of our different ages. We would love to win it!
This sounds like a great series!
I have not yet used any AIG curriculum, but I have had my eye on the History Revealed Sets for awhile now. I homeschool kids from kindergarden through 10th grade and it would be wonderful to have one curriculum to span all ages.
We have used the AIG God’s Design for … Science Curriculum for some years.
I knew that AIG had homeschool curriculum…but I haven’t had a chance to use it yet…though I have wanted to. We have the Dinosaurs for Kids book by Ken Hamm…and we love it.
Started using her other history sets a couple of years ago, love her story CD’s, she makes history come alive! Enjoy the way she brings in the thread of God’s plan through history. Looking forward to her final insights in WE,WM,WW.
This is exactly what I was hoping to use with my kids! We have been so excited about getting this curriculum!
Thanks for sharing your thoughts on this curriculum. I have been searching for a good history program. I will definitely look further into History Revealed.
I did know, I spent quite a bit of time looking at the curriculum wall in the bookstore at the Creation Museum. We have used the 7 C’s of creation and my daughter’s Sunday School Class uses AIG curriculum.
I would love to try this! Multiple ages and multiple learning styles is very appealing. I knew AIG had science resources but had no idea they had extended to history.
This is our first year using History Revealed and we love it! The articles are so biblically centered and the range of activities guarantees that each child will find at least one project that fits them perfectly.
We use lots of AiG books in our homemade curricula.
We love AIG science and TOG, so I am obviously very excited about yhe possibilty of adding this to our day!!’ Great stuff!!!
Yes, I knew they offered curricula. We used part of the Ancient Civilizations curricula with my daughter. We LOVED it! There were a variety of hands-on, engaging activities. I was impressed with the fact that it was Biblically-based. Thank you for the chance to win!
Yes! I did know that! I’ve used Answers
This sounds like the perfect history solution for my 5.
Yes, I knew they offered homeschool curriculum…I haven’t tried any of it yet.
We have used their science and love it! Plus many of their apologetic DVDs.
Love Diana Waring! This would be a great addition for us. Thanks!!
Their science curriculum is amazing. Would love to have their history program as well. I have one in 10th, 8th, and 5th. This curriculum would be such a blessing.
I love AIG but I did not know they had Curriculum!!!!! How exciting and this looks like an amazing set, we are learning about this right now and it would be such a blessing to win!
We always have a problem with Science in our homeschooling journey . These AIG books will answer so much now when our child is young & as he grows older too. How beneficial & what a blessing it will be! Thank you for giving us this opportunity.
I did know. I just got one of the Activity Books for younger students.
I knew about the AIG curriculum. We have some AIG materials mixed in with other things we use.
I would LOVE to have this for my 3 boys! Thank you for the giveaway!
We absolutely love AIG’s God’s Design for science and have heard great things about this course too. We’d love to win it for our 5 kiddos!
yes i did know
I love to use their Science and magazines
This would be a Godsend for next year.
We are looking at switching up our whole curriculum and AIG is the front runner so far. AIG’s curricula are awesome!!
Would LOVE this!
Nope, this is new to me!
I knew they offered curriculum and we are currently using one of the science curriculum. Love that it tailors to multiple age groups.