Since we live in the United States we of course are going to spend a fair amount of time learning about the country we live in, and we also are spending a fair amount of time studying the different states.
{I am adding to this page as I sort through blog posts, so be patient if the topic you’re looking for isn’t here yet}
Colonial American History Lessons
Homespun Sarah (Amish community)
Colonial America archeological dig
Oldest Barn in America (timeline lesson)
Natural Dyes in Colonial America
Chincoteague Island (local legends)
Colonial America group presentations
American Revolution History Lesson
Boston Massacre and early steps to Revolution
American Revolution: Steps to War
Make a haversack (soldier bag)
Spies in the American Revolution
Nathaniel Greene (general)
biographies: George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Robert E Lee
Early Republic history (founding to 1812)
The Big Cheese, Jefferson’s presidency
War of 1812 History Lessons
Westward Expansion American History Lessons (1820s-1880s)
Harriet Tubman, Fredrick Douglass and the Underground Railroad
Log Cabin Quilt, homesteading in Michigan
Underground Railroad simulation
Gun Fighters of the Old West (learn your local legends)
Cattle Drives and the Old West
Civil War History Lessons
Mr. Lincoln’s Whiskers (election of 1860)
Showing Civil War battles visually
Comparing texts on the Civil War
Promise Quilt (how Civil War affected families)
Gilded Age early 1900s American History Lessons
10th Avenue Cowboy (early 1900s New York City)
World War 1 American History Lessons
What was it like in the trenches of World War 1?
How did United States end up in World War 1?
1920s and Great Depression History Lessons
Aunt Minnie and the Twister (fiction picture book, art lesson)
Traveling by train in the 1920s and 30s
Movies to learn about the Great Depression
Depression Era: living as hobos
Depression simulation for kids
World War 2 American History Lessons
World War 2 movies to watch with your kids
Exploring a World War 2 sub (field trip)
1950s-1970s American History Lessons
Korean War lesson plan, should we have gotten into the war?
America in the 1950s notebooking ideas
Presidential report: Harry Truman and Dwight Eisenhower
Last Mule of Gee Bend (Civil Rights)
Under New York (fiction book about New York subways)
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