Tag: US history

  • History Games for School

    History Games for School

    Regular readers of my blog will tell you we are BIG fans of history lessons here as well as gameschooling.  I love finding new and unique ways to teach history lessons, and games often fills this challenge.  Though many history games are not intended for young kids. Why play history games: Similar to my math…

  • Mayflower craft Thanksgiving lesson

    Mayflower craft Thanksgiving lesson

    There are a whole slew of great books about the Pilgrims and the Mayflower to use for our history lessons, but I wanted to do something a little different, so we watched, drumroll please: A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving (affiliate link, there are several more in here) I remember seeing this as a little kid and…

  • Victory in Europe, the end of World War 2

    Victory in Europe, the end of World War 2

    Hi! Future Ticia 2024 here, tomorrow is the 80th anniversary of D-Day, and I thought it would be fun to republish this Victory in Europe lesson which shows how D-Day was part of a massive victory plan among the Allies. Now I return you to Past Ticia 2013. Victory in Europe at the end of…

  • American Revolution Chapter books

    American Revolution Chapter books

    This post is inspired by a new book series I found, inspired by a true story of a Texan teenager who participated in the American Revolution. It got my brain thinking of all the cool things I could do with it, and then I realized, “Ticia, you do not have time to create an American…

  • Historical Thanksgiving picture books

    Historical Thanksgiving picture books

    Okay, this booklist came from an amusing source, as I was working on our Massachusetts unit I was finding all of these historical Thanksgiving picture books, so many that I had to severely limit what I picked up for our unit and I thought, “I should actually make a historical Thanksgiving picture book list, it…