History & Me: A workbook of historic figures and family research

author: Education.com
name: Wayne
average rating: 3.50
book published: 2015
rating: 2
read at: 2015/08/23
date added: 2015/08/23
shelves: children-s
review:
'History & Me' by Education.com is another in a line of educational workbooks for kids. I've been impressed with some of the other workbooks, but less so this time around.

There were some interesting choices for historical figures. Some I was familiar with and others not so much. The first section was called 'She's So Cool' and focused on historical women. The second was called 'American Heroes' and along with the usual folks you might see, there were people like John Adams and Celia Cruz. The third section featured 'Presidential Potpourri' but only featured 3 presidents (Washington, Lincoln and Obama) which felt a bit sparse. The final section, called 'Tracing Our Roots' walks through how to look into your own ancestry a bit.

I am all for diversified education, but this book had me scratching my head on the additions and omissions. There should be some balance in who gets focus, but Asians and Latinos seemed to get really shortchanged here, especially Asian Americans. There would seem to be no historic white men after Thomas Edison. Surely we can pick more interesting people than John Adams and Alexander Hamilton for the intended age group. Maybe STEM should be represented a bit more since that is a current focus. Also, the worksheets in the second section seemed to be a lot of the same sort of activity this time around, where the activities were basically reading a paragraph or two then unscrambling a few words. The activities in the first section seem to mirror those in the writing workbook I recently reviewed, but they are stronger than the rest of the book.

I received a review copy of this ebook from Dover Publications and NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Thank you for allowing me to review this ebook.


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