When people tell me little kids can't learn about ancient history, I always give them a strange look. My kids loved learning about ancient history in our homeschool history lesson. Take our ancient Greeks lesson. (This post contains affiliate links marked with an … [Read more...]
Try this interactive Spanish Armada lesson
Before we can discuss the Spanish Armada, we need to set a few ground rules for this history lesson. A few hundred years ago there was a great upset in the balance of the world. The formerly very Catholic King Henry VIII decided he wanted a divorce to marry a new woman he was … [Read more...]
American Revolution unit study
At a formative point in my childhood, almost 12 years old, I went to Colonial Williamsburg for the first time. We had part of a day to go there, and I remember distinctly reveling in the milieu of Virginia right before the American Revolution. It fascinated me, and so I wasn't … [Read more...]
Great history books for kids
So, I was emailing with Natalie from Planet Smarty Pants about finding good children’s history books. And I agree they are hard to find, but if you look you can find some good ones to use in your homeschool history lessons. Of course, it gets easier as the kids get … [Read more...]
Gunfight at the OK Corral, making history fun
What to me is one of the quintessential things about Arizona aside from the Grand Canyon? Of course the gunfight at the OK Corral, and that makes for a fun bit of homeschool history lesson. So, I searched long and hard to find a kid appropriate book about the gunfight at the OK … [Read more...]
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