Why You’ll Want to “Set Sail” with Sea & Sky!

It’s a One-Year Tour Through World History
You are going to love this amazing program!  This trip through world history looks at major world events from a different angle through the history of sailing and flight! Why was Rome able to construct one of the world’s largest and most influential empires? Why did people suddenly take to the ocean and explore the Atlantic all at the same time during the Age of Exploration? You’ll find the fascinating answers to these questions in this exciting program a program that takes a fresh look at history from an entirely different direction! It will give all your future history studies and history’s greatest turning points an entirely new significance!

You’ll Enjoy Exciting Experiments During Your “Voyage”!
Students will learn all about water travel, air and flight dynamics, weather forecasting, marine life and outer space through experiments and fun assignments like creating your own airplane design, testing how a submarine rises, making an astrolabe, exploring piracy, even making clouds and tornadoes!

Complete an Interactive “Make-Your-Own” Captain’s Log
This year’s notebooking resource allows students to experience their own “voyage” by sea and air. Includes pages for weekly journaling, fill-ins, codes, skills practice and much more!   These pages can be inserted in your student’s “Timelines in History.”

Enjoy Extra Resources in Your Digital Set!
We’ve included some fantastic extra resources in your digital set, including a few full-color books designed for tablet or laptop viewing, and some specialty timeline pages.

Purchase Additional Guides to Include the Whole Family!
We have created older and younger student guides that work with the program guide to include the whole family in this adventure. The Young Learners guide offers book and scheduling suggestions that will integrate well with your main study. Resources you’ll want to use from the main study are listed, and great ideas for more family fun are included. This guide is geared for K-3rd. At the same time, if your 7-9th grade “old sea dog” wants to join the crew, we’ve included guide pages that allow advanced students to sign on for the voyage. Included is an additional schedule for titles that will add content, and writing and literature suggestions that coordinate with our LA programs.

What Will We Study?

Students will study events from the earliest times and trace how developments in transportation have so greatly affected world history!

The Character of a Ship

• A Ship Inside and Out

People Take to the Sea

• Ancient Sailors
• The Greeks
• The Romans
• The Vikings
• The Middle Ages

The Renaissance Makes Waves

• A Sailing Renaissance
• Age of Exploration
• Ships Help Build New Empires
• Empires Struggle for Dominance
• New Technologies Change Navies
• Piracy on the High Seas

Industrial Age Shipbuilding

• America Enters the World’s Seas
• The British Empire
• Steam Power & Ironclads
• Luxury Liners & Disasters

20th Century Ships

• Global Power and the Great War
• A Second Terrible War to Today

Adventures in the Air

• Early Aviation Pioneers
• Wilbur and Orville
• The Four Forces of Flight
• The Three Axes of Motion
• Flight Attempts and Failures
• Kitty Hawk Triumph
• Barnstormers & Record-Setters
• Air Power in World Wars
• World Travel & Sonic Speed

Adventures in Space

• Our Place in the Universe
• One Sun and One Moon
• Hard Core Planets
• The Gas Giants
• The Galaxy’s Outer Regions
• Early Launches and Milestones
• Moon Landing!
• Space Shuttles & Catastrophes
• Rocketing into the Future

SCIENCE TOPICS:

Oceans & Seas

• Oceanography
• Ocean Tides, Waves, Currents & Zones
• Ocean Biomes & Sea Life
• Things That Affect Our Oceans

Weather in the Sky

• Types of Weather
• Forecasting Weather

Astronomy

• Exploring the Galaxy
• Constellations and Observation

What’s in the Sea & Sky Guide?

Your Sea & Sky guide will chart your way across oceans, blue skies, and the mysteries of outer space!  The guide is designed to be easy to follow, with each week’s assignments laid out on just one page!  The introduction to the guide offers you oodles of teaching helps that may feel like Charlotte Mason just “friended” you — like advice she’d give you on how to grade student work!  It’s all here!

• A 36-week, 4-day schedule is laid out clearly in a grid-style on just one page
• Introductory material helps you mentor and “learn together” with your student
• Supply lists and other helps make planning quick and painless
• Narration ideas in the front of the guide help you prompt your student through the year
• Weekly schedule page reduces your paperwork and is easy to follow, with clear notes
• Resources offer a focus on activities that are “Open & Go!”
• Ratings systems for activities help you find the ones you want!
• Independent study schedules for older students eliminate writing out homework lists
• 100 Timeline Cards and games provide fun drill to retain key events
• Website and DVD suggestions let you sail through history and into space
• Above all, WP offers a practical, “Can-Do-and-Want-To-Do!” approach

Sea & Sky Resources

This program is designed for students from 3rd to 6th grades.  The resources should provide a good challenge for middle-grade learners, and offer a variety of learning experiences to connect with every type of student.  If you’d like to school a range of ages, you can also add our Young Learner’s Guide for grades K-2, or our Older Learner’s Guide for grades 7th to 9th.

We’ve divided Sea & Sky resources into bundles so you can decide what you’d like to buy or what you might be able to borrow from a library.  You’ll find it easy to choose which bundles you want as you read below, then go to “Build Your Sea & Sky Package.”  You’ll need all the resources listed below if you are going to complete the Sea and Sky theme in its entirety.

STEP 1:  Choose Your Sea & Sky Exclusive Bundle
The “Heart & Soul” of This Theme, Available in Ebook, Mixed, or Print Options

• GUIDE:  Adventures in the Sea and Sky Guide
• HISTORY:  An Unfurling Sail History Resource
• CULTURE:  Sailors, Whalers & Astronauts Cultural Resource
• SCIENCE:  Under the Sea & In the Air Science Resource
• JOURNALING:  Customizable “Make-Your-Own” Captain’s Log
• JOURNALING:  Sea Monsters Journaling Pack
• JOURNALING:  Pirates Journaling Pack
• BIBLE STUDY:  The God of All Creation

PLUS, These Additional Items are Included When You Choose an Ebook or Mixed Bundle!

• JOURNALING:  Sea & Sky Specialty Timeline Pages
• STUDY HELPS:  Fillable Forms Independent Study Schedules
• HISTORY:  Early Aviators Take Off Ebook
• HISTORY:  July 20, 1969 Ebook
• SCIENCE:  Staring Into Space Ebook
• READER:  Treasure Island Ebook
• READER:  Around the World in 80 Days Ebook
• READER:  20,000 Leagues Under the Sea Ebook
• READER:  Kidnapped

STEP 2:  Decide on Sea & Sky Theme Essentials
The Resources Your Theme Requires

• HISTORY & SCIENCE:  Wright Brothers for Kids
• HISTORY & SCIENCE: Galileo for Kids
• HISTORY & SCIENCE: Exploring the Solar System:  A History
• SCIENCE:  The Ocean Book
• SCIENCE:  The Weather Book
• SCIENCE:  The Kids’ Book of Weather Forecasting

STEP 3:  Add Sea & Sky Theme Completer Books
Books of Interest That Complete the Theme

• HISTORY & CULTURE:  Book of Flight
• HISTORY:  Exploring Planet Earth
• HISTORY & CULTURE:  Seabird
• SCIENCE:  Dragons of the Deep
• SCIENCE:  The Stars
• SCIENCE ACTIVITY:  Solar System Planetarium (Model)

STEP 4:  Think About Unique Sea & Sky Add-Ons
Resources That Customize Sea & Sky For Your Family

• Add the “Older Learner’s Guide Pages” for 7th to 9th Grade “Old Sea Dogs!”
• Add the “Younger Learner’s Guidebook” for K to 2nd Grade “Stowaways”!

OTHER STEPS:  Resources You May Want or Need to Add
Check Out Steps 5 to 9 to Add These Resources

• Adventure Reading:  Fictional Readers to Enjoy Together as a Family
• Notebooking Resources:  Timelines, Timeline Figures, or Additional Journaling
• Geography Resources:  Helps to Complete Sea and Sky Mapping
• Consumable Resources:  Adding Items for Additional Students
• Other Subjects:  Considering Language Arts, Science, and Math

Can I ‘Go Inside’ Key Resources?

CHECK OUT SEA & SKY EXCLUSIVE RESOURCES!
Click into these, and find samples under the resource picture.

• GUIDE – Adventures in the Sea & Sky Guide
• HISTORY – An Unfurling Sail – See the “Resource Focus” Below!
• CULTURE – Sailors, Whalers & Astronauts:  Life in Ships That Sail or Soar
• SCIENCE – Under the Sea & In the Air
• BIBLE – The God of All Creation
• NOTEBOOKING – Captain’s Log Notebook
• NOTEBOOKING – Stalking Sea Monsters Pack
• NOTEBOOKING – Pirate Page Pack

PLUS, Only with Ebook/Mixed Sets: 

• EBOOK:  Early Aviators Take Off!
• EBOOK:  July 20, 1969:  Humanity’s Moon Landing
• EBOOK:  Staring Into Space
• EBOOK: E-Reader Book Set, Including
  • Around the World in 80 Days
  • 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
  • Treasure Island
  • Swiss Family Robinson
• EBOOK:  Sea & Sky Independent Study Schedules with Fillable Forms

RESOURCE FOCUS:
A History Study That “Unlocks” All of History in “An Unfurling Sail”

Tracing the history of the world by travel at sea and in the air is a little magical.  It is the key that opens your understanding of the flow of world history!   That makes this program and “An Unfurling Sail” a perfect kickoff before you begin our four-year cycle of world history in depth with Quest for the Ancient World, Quest for the Middle Ages, Quest for Royals and Revolution, and Quest for Modern Times.

In this program you’ll discover answers to questions about history that you never thought you’d get answered, or questions you never thought to ask.  Questions like these:

• Why did the era of city-states last so long before large empires took their place?
• What key technological invention kept the small Greek city-states from being lost to history, and ensured their democratic ideals would shape much of human history?
• How was the small city-state of Rome able to rise to power over other, more powerful city-states to become a sprawling empire that changed world history forever?
• What development at sea ensured that Rome would fall?
• What technological advantages did the Vikings use to spread their culture around Europe?
• What gave rise to the Renaissance in Italy?
• How was it that explorers “suddenly” took to exploring the Pacific and the Atlantic Oceans?
• What “secret” did Columbus know that allowed him to make his huge discovery?
• Why did England create a huge worldwide empire, rather than Spain, rich with wealth from the New World?
• Why has one of the world’s largest countries — Russia — historically struggled economically, a struggle that continues today?
• Why did pirates flourish at certain times in history, then vanish?
• Why did World War I virtually guarantee that World War II would take place?
• What ensured that the United States would emerge as the single superpower it is today?
• What is the difference between a ship and a boat, anyway?

The revealing answers to these questions will help your student gain a true understanding of world history as a whole!  That’s why, when we’re asked if girls will enjoy this study, too, we can’t say loud enough — YES!

What Signature WP Experiences Await Us?

WinterPromise considers itself a curriculum that embraces the “Experience Approach,” offering Charlotte-Mason style learning opportunities with up-to-date materials that make the most of technology, too.   In each WP program, you’ll encounter a lot of our signature “Experiences.”  Some of them come in key resources like our exclusive “Under the Sea & In the Air” book, while others are in the guide or hidden in other resources.

Here are just a sampling of the experiences your student can choose to make a part of their year:

• Take Virtual Tours of Ancient Shipwrecks and Modern Submarines
• “Dive” Into the Ocean at the NeMO Seafloor Observatory
• Make a Viking Raid
• Discover the Science Behind the Mercator Map
• Explore Henry VIII’s Prized Mary Rose
• Create a Dragon Boat
• Explore the Titanic, then Design a Luxury Liner
• Master the Art of Creating Paper Flying Machines
• Discover NASA Secrets of Flight & Try a Flight Simulation
• Learn about Dogfighting Tactics
• Experiment with Ocean Water, Glaciers, Wave Action, Weather Forecasts, and More!
• Make Rain, Navigate the Ocean, Measure Wind Chill, and Explore Gravity
• Learn Easy Ways to Find and Name the Constellations
• “Drive” on the Moon!
• Prepare for a Mission to Mars or Mastermind a Mission to the Hubble Space Telescope
• Direct the Flight of a Comet
• Escape from a Black Hole
• Hunt for New Galaxies
• Use a Big Dipper Star Clock

How Do I Use Ebook Versions?

While many of our families do enjoy books, most of our ebooks would better be considered resources, rather than the types of books that families typically desire to enjoy as “books.” With all this in mind, not only might our ebooks sets be right for your family, you might just discover that they really offer you a better way to do school!  And remember – most of our programs include bonus ebook resources you can’t get any other way!  Take a look at the ways you could utilize our ebook resources:

• Consumable materials can be printed out looseleaf, and you are able to print as many copies as you want!
• Some resources are designed to function as easily flippable “Tablet Books” that look great on a tablet screen, and are in beautiful full color. They are easy to cuddle around, just like books. NOTE! These books function on any device, not just a tablet!
• Some resources just offer more functionality, as they jump you to websites and more!
• Ebook resources look unbelievable on your device!
• Almost all resources allow you to customize your experience, whether filling in assignments or printing just the right number.

Take a look at the “Sea and Sky” resources below.  Discover how they function as ebooks, and the advantages to making them a part of your library, and then decide!

The Sea & Sky Guide in Ebook Format This guide brings you a wealth of functionality not present in a print guide.  Take a look:

• Recommended websites link directly to the web on devices that have web access
• Separate “Independent Study Schedules” files allow you to actually add some student assignments in the grid forma
• You can customize your experience: select and print any pages you’d like from the guide and view others
• Easily print extra “Independent Study Schedules” for additional students

“Make-Your-Own” Captain’s Log
This resource is easy to print looseleaf, and can be printed as many times as you like for multiple students, offering you a great savings.  By having access to this file, you can customize and print only those pages you’ll use, which is especially handy if you have younger students, or student who would rather focus on other aspects of the program.  Either way, your students are using it the same way in print or ebook.  This is a resource that is in color, but it can be printed in black and white if you preferred.

An Unfurling Sail
You’ve probably already discovered a lot about this book.  This book is handy to have in ebook format, since you can transfer it to devices each of your students use.  They will be referencing this book a lot during their year, and using it to independently to verify facts or complete their “Make-Your-Own” Captain’s Log.  They’ll enjoy having their own copy on their device, and you’ll appreciate not having to share one copy among several students.  Plus, students will enjoy seeing many of the illustrations in color.

Under the Sea & In the Air
In ebook format, we give you a complete student text that includes both reading sections and student worksheets in one file, and just the student worksheets in another file.  The complete text is meant to be viewed and not printed (but it is an option if you would like).  You can choose to do this, and print a complete text for each student, and not view anything.  On the other hand, the student worksheet file is created so you can easily print the worksheets looseleaf, and print it as many times as you want.  Students can read the reading sections from the viewable text, then complete their worksheets on paper.  In addition, this file makes it easy to customize what you are having each student do, and enables you to have younger students completing just select assignments, if  you wish.  The complete text is 94 pages; the student worksheets are just 49 pages (taken from that 94).

The God of All Creation
Students will work with this book as a devotional a few minutes each day.  This resource is consumable, unless you have your student complete the work in a separate journal.  You may print as many copies as you like with your ebook set.  You can print looseleaf pages, OR student can view and write answers in journal or notebook.  If you print, you’ll be printing 103 looseleaf pages.

Young Learners Guidebook
In digital format, this resource can easily be printed in its entirety, or you can view the introductory material and print the scheduling pages.  They can be printed looseleaf in black and white.  The entire guidebook is 48 pages long; 36 of these pages are weekly schedules.

Older Learners Guide Pages
This resource offers Independent Study Schedule pages your older learner will substitute for those in the main Sea and Sky guide.  Each page offers not only assignments from the basic program, but also assignments from additional resources that add content.  This guide also offers different projects that your student can choose to do or not to do.  These project ideas are created with the older learner in mind.  In digital format, this resource can easily be printed in its entirety, or you can view the introductory material and print the Independent Study Schedule pages.  They can be printed looseleaf in black and white.  It is helpful to note that in digital, we send you a version that includes fillable forms so that students or parents can add other assignments, such as math or language arts, to keep the student on track with all their work.  The entire guidebook is 85 pages long; 36 of these pages are the Independent Study Schedules.

Additional Ebook Resources – Available Only as Part of a Ebook or Mixed Bundle

WinterPromise Sea and Sky Tablet Book Set
These full-color books are specially designed to work well and look exceptional on tablets, laptops, or other devices.  They are designed for a widescreen format, and flip beautifully from page to page on a tablet or other device.  The three-title set includes “Early Aviators Take Off!,” “Staring Into Space,” and “July 20, 1969:  Humanity’s Moon Landing.”  You can view this resource on any device, but are formatted to fit the parameters of a tablet screen beautifully.  While you can print these books, they are in color, and specifically designed for device use, so we would recommend that you use them just as ebooks.

Sea & Sky Specialty Timeline Pages
These printable timeline pages can be printed looseleaf in color or black and white.  Each is a double-wide spread to file in your Timelines in History resource.  Digital Use: Print looseleaf; file in Timeline. You’ll need to print 18 pages in color or b&w. You may print as many copies as you like as part of your ebook purchase.

E-Reader Book Set
These books are formatted to allow you to read them on your tablet, laptop, or other device. Easy-to-read typeface.  You’ll want to view these books; they are too lengthy to print.  Around the World in 80 Days, Treasure Island, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, and Swiss Family Robinson.

What Items are Related to Sea & Sky?

Below you’ll find information on products related to Adventures in the Sea and Sky, including the consumables in the program, language arts programs you might want to consider, and what else to add to complete the learning.

Start by Deciding if You Need Extra of These Consumables in Print:

• “Make-Your-Own” Captain’s Log
• The God of All Creation
• Solar System Planetarium (Can be shared by 2 students, must be purchased elsewhere)

Next, Consider if You Want to Purchase a Coordinating Language Arts Program:
Coordinating language arts programs offer scheduled readers that coordinate with this theme and typically offer creative writing or narration suggestions that coordinate with this theme as well.  This theme coordinates with:

• LA 4 – “Solving the Mysteries of Grammar”
• LA 5 – “Digging into Paragraphs”
• LA 6 – “Exploring Word Pictures”
• LA 7 – “Mastering the Writing Process”
• LA 8 – “Developing Your Storywriting”
• LA HS 1 – “Intriguing Written Expression”
• LA HS 2 – “Creating Captivating Fiction”

Add a “Timelines in History” Book for Each Student if You Haven’t Purchased One
Add Timeline Figures for This Study – See Notebooking Section for Sea & Sky Figures
Make Sure You Have a Good Historical Atlas for Mapping
Add a Science Program
Add a Math Program

And, If You Want Adventure Reading to Coordinate with Sea and Sky . . .
WinterPromise has always included family reading with their themed programs, but as we’ve watched prices on these books go up, we feel it is better to offer parents the option to choose whether or not to purchase these books as part of their program. This way parents have the choice to collect new or used books, borrow them, or take advantage of the advent of personal reading devices and use ebooks on their devices. To give parents more choices, we are no longer including reading books in our themed programs, but listed below is detail about the adventure reading books scheduled for you in your guide.  You can still purchase this set from WP as a special order item online.

• Swallows and Amazons
• Treasure Island
• Raiders from the Sea
• Carry on Mr. Bowditch
• Around the World in 80 Days
• Attack of the Turtle
• Stowaway
• Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World
• Flying to the Moon

When you’ve learned enough about Sea and Sky resources, you can purchase the packages on this main page. You’ll find it easy to choose which bundles you want!

Sea & Sky FAQ’s

I See Sea & Sky Has a Science Component.  Do I Still Need to Purchase an Additional Science Program?
No! The Sea and Sky program includes more than enough science for a science credit; in fact, this program is more expensive than other comparable programs in our product line because it includes enough history and science for credit in both. The same holds true for students using our older learner’s guide, although parents should make sure enough experiments or research projects are being completed to satisfy state requirements for awarding credit hours.

I have a younger student who’d love to learn alongside my middle grade students.  Is there a way to make that happen?
Since Sea and Sky has pretty concrete themes, it is fairly easy to include your younger students. To help with that, we offer a Sea and Sky Younger Learner’s Guide that offers suggested additional resources and schedules them.  This guide also points out the assignments in the main study that younger learners could join in, and gives you extremely simple-to-do activity ideas that connect with younger learners.

I’d love to have my Junior High student join our study — is this possible?
We do offer an Older Learner’s Guide that will allow your junior or senior high student to complete Adventures in the Sea and Sky with some additional resources for a complete upper level experience. This guide includes substitute independent study schedules. These schedule additional resources and provide a place where your student can keep track of their own work and still have Sea & Sky assignments on the same independent work planning page. The guide also gives buying information for the additional resources, and more difficult project suggestions that appeal to older students. It even includes weekly creative writing suggestions.

How Do I Credit My Junior High or Senior High Student in Their Transcript?
We’ve included information about this theme and how to credit your student in our Sea and Sky Scope & Sequence, which you can download and print to use in your student’s transcript.

How does  Language Arts coordinate with this program?
We have several language arts programs that coordinate with “Adventures in the Sea and Sky.” Language Arts 3 to 6 each have reading lists right at their respective grade levels to enable students to experience comfortable reading growth. Creative writing for students follows the goals of their grade level program, yet draws its subjects from topics covered in your main study.

I’ve already got a few of the items in the package. Can I still get the package price and leave them out?
We love to offer our package prices to our parents to help them purchase a great program with a great discount.  We do, however, have to sell all the items in the package in order to honor the discount. Usually the discount outweighs the value of the resources you might already have.  If not, you can choose items individually to build the purchase of a themed program package ensures you also get reduced shipping, ll want to take into account as you look at your total purchase.

Which of the resources in Adventures in the Sea and Sky are WinterPromise Exclusives?
These resources are WP Exclusives in Sea & Sky:

• Adventures in the Sea and Sky Guide
• “Make-Your-Own” Captain’s Log
• An Unfurling Sail
• Under the Sea & In the Air
• The God of All Creation

Which of the resources in Adventures in the Sea and Sky are used for more than four weeks, other than WP Exclusives?

• Sailors, Whalers & Astronauts
• Wright Brothers for Kids
• Planet Earth
• The Story of the Wright Brothers
• Galileo for Kids
• Exploring the Solar System: A History
• The Ocean Book
• The Weather Book
• The Stars
• Weather Forecasting
• Solar System Planetarium
• Treasure Island

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