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Napoleonic wars history lesson

September 9, 2020 Ticia 3 Comments

napoleonic wars history lesson modern 6th lego

As we started our Napoleonic wars history lesson, I jokingly said, "It's all his fault we got World War 2." Then the kids looked at me like I was slightly crazy, and I thought, "Challenge accepted!" Then proceeded to gather up some legos, a map, and some vis-a-vis for our history … [Read more...]

history 6th grade, lego history, modern history

Dump out your LEGOs and grab your history books

January 22, 2020 Ticia 9 Comments

lego history lessons

In our homeschool history lessons we pull out a lot of LEGOs to create LEGO history. LEGOs have a wide variety of uses in your history and geography lessons: provide visual aid of how history unfolded build famous monuments re-enact famous scenes in history I'm sure … [Read more...]

history lego history

Ancient Sumerian lessons

June 12, 2019 Ticia 12 Comments

Sumerian hands on activities for ancient history lessons

Occasionally in our homeschool history lessons we get inspired by our book to dig deeper. I don't know if it was reading the lesson and thinking how fun it would be to build a super tall building, or if the kids remembered the last time we read about Ancient Sumeria, but this … [Read more...]

arts and crafts, history 3rd grade, ancient history, kid crafts, lego history

Joan of Arc unit

May 31, 2019 Ticia 11 Comments

Joan of Arc history lesson with legos

Ticia of 2019 here, I first published this Jan. 1 of 2016, but we went and saw Henry V last night, and this Joan of Arc unit is the only history lesson I have from the Hundred Years War. That is a tragedy of epic proportions that must be remedied, especially since we covered … [Read more...]

history Europe, lego history, middle ages, Mystery of History 2

Quick and Easy Native American Report

February 5, 2019 Ticia 4 Comments

create a Native American diorama with legos and creativity

In college, as a history minor, I was required to take Texas history. The class was only offered on Tuesday/Thursday from 4:30 to 6:30. As a sophomore, I signed up to take the class and made it through precisely one class before dropping it. The professor was particularly … [Read more...]

history, Texas 7th grade, lego history, legos, Texas history, US history

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