Tag: 8th 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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Kansas Unit
Hi, Future Ticia 2025 here, well actually current day because I’m rescheduling this to 2025. I wrote this way back in February 24, 2011, and things have changed just a little bit. Like when I first wrote this Kansas Unit we didn’t even link to the books, so it was just name a book title…
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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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Oklahoma Unit
We have now done an Oklahoma Unit twice. Once when my kids were super little, and in kindergarten, and a second time when they were in junior high. Both times, they were fun geography lessons, but they did teach me a lesson in humility. Just because I vividly remember a book and activity, does not…
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STEM challenge: Design a Greek Temple
There are certain design styles that are eternal. They come back into style over and over again, and one of the most eternal is the Greek columns. You constantly see them brought back whenever a society wants to show they are mature and need to be taken seriously. Look at all of the European capitals…