Category: history
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History Games for School
Regular readers of my blog will tell you we are BIG fans of history lessons here as well as gameschooling. I love finding new and unique ways to teach history lessons, and games often fills this challenge. Though many history games are not intended for young kids. Why play history games: Similar to my math…
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Mayflower craft Thanksgiving lesson
There are a whole slew of great books about the Pilgrims and the Mayflower to use for our history lessons, but I wanted to do something a little different, so we watched, drumroll please: A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving (affiliate link, there are several more in here) I remember seeing this as a little kid and…
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Viking Unit
Vikings are such an odd time period in history. As a culture, we are very obsessed with them. We’ve created so many movies and TV shows about them, and their actions did a lot to change our culture, but the individual Vikings do not do much to change our history. It makes it difficult to…
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How do ocean currents move and how does this affect navigation?
One of the weird random facts I learned about Benjamin Franklin is that he learned how the ocean currents move and charted the Atlantic Current. If Benjamin Franklin is ever the subject on Jeopardy, I’m set. Since that’s not likely to happen, I set the kids to an ocean currents experiment and had lots of…
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Making a mummy
We started studying Egypt this week in our homeschool history lesson, and what do you think of when you think of Egypt, but mummies. So, taking a page from the Story of the World Ancient History lessons, we’re making a mummy. Warning, not for the easily grossed out, or germ-o-phobes. Hi, Future Ticia 2025 here,…