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Tag: Mystery of History 3
What did sailor’s eat?
If you’ve ever been on a cruise, you know that you gain 10 pounds from all of the delicious food you eat. That was not the case for sailors during the Age of Exploration. Instead their food was the source of all sorts of horrible food stories. It also serves the source for a great…
How to make hard tack
I’ve read a lot of historical fiction. Anything set on a ship or during a war pre-Napoleonic era (and even some after) talk about hard tack. I’ve been fascinated by how to make hard tack, and have tried a couple of different recipes. I first made hard tack in college for a history class, and…
How did sailors measure speed before electronics?
Three years ago Apparently it was only a little over a year ago that I discovered a wonderful tool to measure ship speed, a chip log. It answered the question, how did people measure ship speed before the invention of technology. Taking the idea, we set about making our own chip log craft for our…
Make your history projects look more authentic with this ship’s logbook project
Technically speaking, all of the posts for the next week or so were completed before the Christopher Columbus unit. I say technically because, it’s all a horrible mish-mash of activities in my head, and some were completed after, and some were before, but I know we started our Ship’s logbook craft before any lessons on…
How to make a sailor costume
Sometimes the most memorable homeschool history lessons involve costumes, and play. But, I don’t know about you, I am not organized enough to keep that many costumes, and I don’t have the funds to get that many costumes. That’s why I’m always happy to figure out easy costumes, like this easy sailor costume. It doesn’t…