In case you can’t tell ancient history is one of my favorite time periods for history lessons. I find the ideas and activities you can do with this time fascinating, the history, the people, the mythology. My bookshelves quite agree from the numerous books gracing … [Read more...]
Historical Thanksgiving picture books
Okay, this booklist came from an amusing source, as I was working on our Massachusetts unit I was finding all of these historical Thanksgiving picture books, so many that I had to severely limit what I picked up for our unit and I thought, "I should actually make a historical … [Read more...]
How to make an edible Roman Road
A few years ago I read a post by Phyllis over at All Things Beautiful on how to make an edible Roman road (she has made most posts private now, so I removed the link). I thought, "I'm totally doing that in my history lesson when we next study Ancient Rome." Fast forward a few … [Read more...]
We Didn’t Start the Fire history lesson
Over two decades ago I was subbing in a high school history class. Because the way it works for subs in high school, pretty much all I had to do was hit play on the movie and that was it. This left me lots of time to look around the room and see all the things, and observe. The … [Read more...]
Online High School History with Nomadic Professor
My absolute favorite classes in my high school years were my history classes. I had these amazing teachers that didn't teach me facts and dates, they taught me to look for why, and to look for how events in the past impact today, or how our current mood impacts how we view … [Read more...]
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