I'm about to do something controversial. Are you ready? When teaching ancient history for our history lessons a few years ago, I put the invention of the shaduf with Ancient Mesopotamia rather than Ancient Egypt. But Ticia, isn't the cradle of civilization in ancient Egypt, not … [Read more...]
Xerxes lesson for elementary kids
Hey, Future Ticia 2020 here, and I'm updating a few things here, and expanding on this Xerxes lesson, which is part of a greater library of history lessons and in particular, part of our Ancient History and Babylon unit. I now mostly return you to 2014 Ticia. Our Xerxes lesson … [Read more...]
Ancient Sumeria Books
This past year we went through ancient history at a breakneck pace, and that meant I made lots of book lists for our history lessons. Once we finished off our Worldview Unit, we started into Ancient Sumeria, and of course, I went to our library and got every single book they had … [Read more...]
Darius 1 preschool lesson
Last week over at Mama Smiles there was a post about using painter’s tape to make roads, and I thought that sounds like fun, and I need to remember to do that. Then, we read our homeschool history lesson for the day in the Mystery of History 1*, and Darius 1 was known for fixing … [Read more...]
5 easy Ancient Babylon lessons to teach your kids
When Jeff and I got married we went to London for our honeymoon. We spent large amounts of time in the British Museum traipsing about through ancient ruins, and trying to figure out what those people were thinking. The Babylonian ruins were particularly fascinating to … [Read more...]