Tag: Ancient Greece

  • STEM challenge: Design a Greek Temple

    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…

  • Archimedes lesson

    Archimedes lesson

    Hi! Future Ticia 2023 here, I was sitting down about to write down our Archimedes lesson from a few years ago. I started to create a draft and thought, “I thought I had already written about Archimedes, maybe I should double-check this,” and sure enough there it was. I had a preschool or early elementary…

  • Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief book club

    Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief book club

    I watched the Percy Jackson movies when they came out and vowed I was never going to watch them again. They were awful, they butchered a book series I enjoyed, and it was especially frustrating after the Harry Potter books started out as portraying the books so well.* But, my boys went to a Percy…

  • Aesop’s Fables, a fun a quick lesson

    Aesop’s Fables, a fun a quick lesson

    This Aesop’s Fables lesson is a quick and easy way to get your kids interacting with the material, and is a fun way to bring in homeschool history lesson (which is how we originally used it).  The technique would be great for most subjects you learn, but today we used it for Aesop’s Fables. Oh, cool idea…

  • Ancient Greeks for preschool

    Ancient Greeks for preschool

    When people tell me little kids can’t learn about ancient history, I always give them a strange look.  My kids loved learning about ancient history in our homeschool history lesson.  Take our ancient Greeks lesson. (This post contains affiliate links marked with an *) Ancient Greeks for Preschool We read about Sparta and Athens in…