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Tag: Mystery of History 2
Age of Exploration Unit
Hey, this is Future Ticia of 2019, I originally wrote this post in 2016 a few years after the last time we studied the Age of Exploration and went through our Age of Exploration Unit for Elementary School (or middle school since this was designed for my 5th grade kids). Now my kids are in…
How we got a Christmas tree, or who is Saint Boniface
Have you ever wondered where the tradition of the Christmas tree comes from? It’s an interesting bit of church history that seems rather appropriate at Christmas time. This Saint Boniface lesson was one of our homeschool history lessons last year (2014, from when I originally wrote this). {This post contains affiliate links marked with an…
Forerunners to the Protestant Reformation
To hear many people talk about history lessons it’s always a foregone conclusion the events will turn out the way it happened in the history books. In reality, there’s a bunch of smaller steps that you need for a particular event to take place. Take the American Revolution, it really needed a couple of catalysts…
Rome to Reformation history lessons
You know what is a fascinating time period? The Middle Ages. The time from the end of the Roman Empire to the start of the Reformation have so many fun hands-on history lessons you can go through. So let’s call this Rome to Reformation history lessons. Mainly because I like how that sounds, it sounds…
Create a market for Marco Polo to trade at
We tend to think of history as a boring, and sadly that’s how many teachers treat it. When I teach our homeschool history lessons I try my best to make it fun, and with young children that means allowing them the chance of pretend play. As part of our Marco Polo unit we created a…