Tag: 4th grade
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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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Best Christmas Pageant Ever book and a movie night
If you haven’t read The Best Christmas Pageant Ever, then you need to right now. You will not regret it. As soon as I found out it was a book and a movie, I had to do this. HAD TO. I listed it as one of my favorites on my Christmas books post last year.…
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Gilgamesh lesson
Sometimes you have a lesson that the first time you teach it, you have a mild interest in it, and then something catches your interest and suddenly you are much more interested in it. That’s what happened with our Gilgamesh lesson. The first time I taught Ancient History back in Kindergarten, I barely even registered…
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Astronomy ideas for kids
We are getting set to start astronomy for our science lessons this year, and so I’m organizing my hands on astronomy ideas from pinterest into something usable, and you get the benefit of that. Hi! Future Ticia 2023 here. I came in to update this post and thought it was my Astronomy landing page. In…