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Get to Know BP Cool Histories
BP Cool Histories are history workbooks filled with fun questions and activities. The job of answering questions on paper helps students in so many ways! First, it takes them back through the chapter they’ve just read—which helps them remember more of it. Second, it tests how well they understand what they’ve read. Third, it forces them to take a closer look at the chapter as they search for the answers they need.
BP offers five different Cool Histories for five different types of students. Click the titles below to learn more about each type, and to see samples of each.
Each Cool History for Littles page has about twelve easy questions for your littlest students to answer. The questions come in the same order as the material in Remember the Days, which makes the answers easier to find. Each page also has a fun activity for your littles to do, plus a short geography lesson called “Globe Fun.” For students this young, most parents and teachers read the questions aloud and take the answers orally.
Sample Pages from Cool History for Littles (Click a year to choose):
Cool History for Middles is a versatile workbook designed for a wide age range. Its questions come in two kinds, with about 18 Questions from the Readings and about 6 Challenge Questions. Most Questions from the Readings ask for short answers, and are for all students in the age range. Parents and teachers who want more can add the Challenge Questions, which require more writing. Each assignment closes with an Optional Bonus Question/Activity that requires a bit of research.
Sample Assignments from Cool History for Middles
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Cool History for Upper Middles bridges the gap between the logic stage of learning and the rhetoric stage. Like Cool History for Middles, it has some easy questions with short answers. But like Cool History for Advanced, it also has some thought-provoking questions with no right or wrong answer. Each assignment ends with an Optional Bonus Question/Activity that requires a bit of research. CHUM also has pre-written tests for parents and teachers who need them.
Sample Assignments from Cool History for Upper Middles
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Cool History for Advanced features our longest and hardest assignments. They start with long fill-in-the-blank questions, then move on to short answer questions and short essay questions. They end with Optional Research Essays, most of which require at least a paragraph of writing. CHA also has pre-written tests for parents and teachers who need them.
Sample Assignments from Cool History for Advanced
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Cool History Classic is a holdover from years past, when BP was only a literature guide to supplement spines written by others. It asks questions based on The Story of the World by Susan Wise Bauer.
Sample Assignments from Cool History Classic
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FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS about BP Cool Histories:
Cool History for Littles and Middles go with Remember the Days, while Cool History for Upper Middles and Advanced go with the Companion. Cool History Classic goes only with The Story of the World by Susan Wise Bauer.
It depends. Since Cool History for Littles is usually done orally, most customers need only one of those. For all the others, it’s easiest if each student has his or her own workbook.