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  • Napoleonic wars history lesson

    Napoleonic wars history lesson

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    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 lesson, turning it into…

  • LEGO History

    LEGO History

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    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 there’s even more that I haven’t thought of yet,…

  • Ancient Sumerian lessons

    Ancient Sumerian lessons

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    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 time our Ancient Sumeria…

  • Joan of Arc unit

    Joan of Arc unit

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    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 middle…

  • Quick and Easy Native American Report

    Quick and Easy Native American Report

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    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 enamored with some of the more… Shall…