Category: history

  • Liberty Bell craft

    Liberty Bell craft

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    This post is a fun bit of homeschool history lesson and homeschool geography lesson.  Homeschool history because the book, Our Liberty Bell*, does a fair job of giving the history behind the Liberty Bell (tieing in great to an American Revolution Unit), but homeschool geography because national symbols is taught as part of geography. I got…

  • The second Persian invasion

    The second Persian invasion

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    I mentioned briefly last week that I found a cool new site thanks to All Things Beautiful, well this week we really got to make use of it for homeschool history lesson and this is now my boys’ favorite type of lesson (future Ticia here, even at 11 their favorite type of lesson still involves these…

  • War of 1812 craft

    War of 1812 craft

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    Now how many of you went “what War of 1812?”  Honestly, now?  This is a slightly lesser known bit of homeschool history lesson, but I quite enjoyed the lesson with my kids. And then how many of you thought of this song? Or maybe I’m the only one who actually knows this song.  But, it came…

  • Fall of Jerusalem lesson

    Fall of Jerusalem lesson

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    The Fall of Jerusalem lesson is an easy one to make hands-on, all you need is a large supply of Legos and some willing helpers, oh, and a Bible or maybe your Sunday School lesson.  All I know is my kids always love when we have a Lego History lesson, and they can run to…

  • History: The first Olympics

    History: The first Olympics

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    Sometimes homeschool history lessons are an excuse to get some energy out.  That’s certainly true with the first Olympics lesson we did the other day. Okay, I pretty much am just putting this in here because the picture cracks me up.  Batman and I went to dinner on Saturday as part of our annual “Shop for…