- Where can I find samples of BiblioPlan's products?
- Why is there no Three-Week Sample Bundle for Year 3?
- How does BiblioPlan benefit families with children from several age groups?
- I have a first grader, a fourth grader and a seventh grader. Which BiblioPlan products should I buy?
- How many additional books will I need beyond what BiblioPlan offers?
- Should I buy an e-book bundle, a hardcopy bundle or a blended bundle?
- Is there any rhyme or reason to the color coding in the Companion?
- How can I tell which sections of the Companion I should read or assign to children of different ages?
- How might BiblioPlan work in a homeschool cooperative, a Christian school or a virtual school setting?
- Is there an online support group for BiblioPlan users?
- I have teenagers who need high school credit. What subjects does BiblioPlan cover for high schoolers?
- What is BiblioPlan's return policy?
- What home school conventions will BiblioPlan reps be attending this year?
- Does BiblioPlan have an Errata Page?
Where can I find samples of BiblioPlan's products?
Just follow this link to our FREE SAMPLES page. The first three weeks of most of BiblioPlan's materials are available there in free bundles. Also, there are samples of each individual product on that product's description page. You can link to those here:
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Why is there no Three-Week Sample Bundle for Year 3?
Because most of our Year Three materials are undergoing a major revision this year. The familiar style of our Family Guide will not change; however, our Companion will change from the old-style collection of supplemental readings to the new full-length, stand-alone history text. Our Cool Histories and Hands-On Maps will change as well. Year Three is the last of our four years to undergo this revision.
All of our old-style Year Three materials are still available HERE. If you would like to wait for the new style, then you will probably have to wait for the 2014-2015 school year. We know we promised to deliver Year 3 piecemeal for this year, and we're very sorry to disappoint anyone who was planning to use the new materials this fall; but unfortunately, the writing is going slower than we'd hoped.
How does BiblioPlan benefit families with children from several age groups?
Homeschooling parents who have more than one child often face the difficult problem of trying to teach different eras of history to students of different ages at the same time. BiblioPlan solves this problem by allowing students of all ages to work on the same eras at the same time! The Companion provides a unifying text that students of all ages can share; the Family Guide identifies age-appropriate supplemental readings for students of different ages; and the four levels of Cool Histories provide age-appropriate challenges for students of different ages.
Working together as a family has several benefits: (1) it save parents the stress of covering multiple eras at the same time; (2) it saves parents the expense of buying multiple curriculae; (3) it allows older children to help younger children with their Cool Histories and Hands-On Maps; and (4) it allows children of all ages to make memories by working together on the same crafts.
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I have a first grader, a fourth grader and a seventh grader. Which BiblioPlan products should I buy?
You should buy a Bundle for Middles, which includes the Companion, the Family Guide, the Cool History for Middles, the Hands-On Maps for Middles, the Timeline and the Craft Book. Then you should supplement that bundle with two extra products: Cool History for Littles for your first grader, and Cool History for Upper Middles for your seventh grader. You should also add a Coloring Book for your first grader. If your seventh grader is more advanced, then you might consider adding Hands-On Maps for Advanced. If your seventh grader is very advanced and has an aptitude for history, then you might consider adding Cool History for Advanced instead of Cool History for Upper Middles.
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How many supplemental books will I need beyond what BiblioPlan offers?
BiblioPlan's program is designed for maximum flexibility; you can assign as many or as few supplemental books as you like. Many of our customers choose to read The Story of the World, The Mystery of History or A History of US alongside the Companion each week. Then they supplement these readings with one, two, three or more history and literature selections from the Family Guide for each unit, 5-6 units per year. To save money, many of our customers try to find supplemental books at their local libraries. Some of these books are in the public domain, and are available on free e-reader services like Project Gutenberg.
If you wish to buy supplemental books online, then you may link to them through the book lists on this website. BiblioPlan lists its literature selections for all four years, along with links to stores where these books are available-- mainly Amazon and Christian Book Distributors. To see BiblioPlan's book lists, please follow these links:
| Year One Book List | Year Two Book List | Year Three Book List | Year Four Book List |
Should I buy an e-book bundle, a hardcopy bundle or a blended bundle?
There are advantages to each:
E-book bundles are the least expensive option. All of BiblioPlan's products arrive as PDF files. The Companion looks great on a laptop or desktop screen, and is PDF-bookmarked so that readers can flip through the chapters quickly. The Companion is also readable on tablets and e-readers in landscape mode.
Hardcopy bundles are for customers who feel that e-readers are a poor substitute for a book in their hands. They are also for those who want to avoid the hassle and expense of printing Cool Histories and Hands-On Maps for their students each week. All of BiblioPlan's hardcopies are professionally-printed paperbacks.
Customers who choose to save money with blended bundles receive their Companion texts as hardcopies and their supplements as e-books. Families with more than one student often buy blended bundles because they need more than one copy of their Cool History and Hands-On Map assignment sheets, and prefer to print the extra copies themselves.
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Is there any rhyme or reason to the color coding in the Companion?
In general, the Companion is color-coded as follows: The narrative of history usually appears in black-on-white text in prose form, timeline form or combined prose/timeline form; while Fascinating Facts, Curious Characters, Interesting Incidents and other items of special interest appear in black text on colored backgrounds. The Companion is not color-coded according to students' ages; instead, the colors and pictures are there to make each page more child-friendly and exciting.
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How can I tell which sections of the Companion I should read or assign to children of different ages?
In both the Cool History for Littles and the Teacher's Guide, BiblioPlan provides lists of Companion readings that are appropriate for the Littles age group each week. Beyond that, the Companion is very flexible. Most Middles students will want to stick with the Companion's colored-background sections; and we have designed our Cool History for Middles so that most of its answers come from these sections. However, we have seen 3rd graders choose to devour the entire Companion text, and we have also seen 8th graders choose to stick with the colored-background sections.
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How might BiblioPlan work in a homeschool cooperative, a Christian school or a virtual school setting?
There are several ways to implement BiblioPlan's curriculum in a school setting. One way is for all grades to work on the same year of study at the same time: let the whole school study Ancients together, then cycle up to Medieval, then on through the Early Modern and Modern years. Another way is to divide BiblioPlan's four years of study according to grade: for example, let grades 1 and 5 study Ancients, grades 2 and 6 study Medieval, grades 3 and 7 study Early Modern, and grades 4 and 8 study Modern. All students would use the same Companions, but students in different grades would use different Cool Histories, Hands-On Maps and supplemental readings.
If you are considering using BiblioPlan in your homeschool cooperative or Christian school, then please use this link to CONTACT US about your specific situation and needs. We will be glad to help you figure out how our materials can fit into your program, and we can also arrange group discounts.
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Is there an online support group for BiblioPlan users?
BiblioPlan users have formed a Yahoo! group on which they share homeschooling questions, tactics and experiences. BiblioPlan's authors help moderate this group, and often respond to questions posted there. You can also find BiblioPlan on Facebook here.
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I have teenagers who need high school credit. What subjects does BiblioPlan cover for high schoolers?
You can use BiblioPlan for high school credit in all of these subjects:
| Year 1 | Year 2 | Year 3 | Year 4 | |
| English Lit | X | X | X | X |
| World History | X | X | ||
| World Geography | X | X | ||
| U.S. History | X | X | ||
| U.S.Geography | X | X | ||
| Modern History | X | X | ||
| Church History | X |
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What is BiblioPlan's return policy?
We're sorry, but we can't accept E-book returns. Please understand that once you've downloaded our materials, there is no way to return them. We do accept hardcopy returns; however, we must ask buyers to (1) return their books in unused condition; (2) return them within one week of receipt; and (3) pay shipping.
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What home school conventions will BiblioPlan reps be attending this year?
You can meet Julia Nalle and BiblioPlan in person at the following conventions in 2013:
- Greenville SC: Great Homeschool Conventions, March 14-16
- Cincinnati OH: Great Homeschool Conventions, April 4-6
- Frederick, MD: MACHE, April 26-27
- Winston-Salem NC: NCHE, May 23-25
- Richmond, VA: HEAV, June 6-8
- Atlanta, GA: Southeast Homeschool Expo, July 25-27
You can also find BiblioPlan's materials at any convention where Rainbow Resource Center operates a booth. For a list of Rainbow conventions this year, click HERE.
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Does BiblioPlan have an Errata Page?
You can link to our Errata page HERE.
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