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Explore the trenches of World War 1 with this activity

June 6, 2018 By Ticia 4 Comments

World War 1 trench warfare simulation

A few weeks ago in a blogging group, we got to talking about outside learning for the summer. Y'all Texas summer is hot, like it was over 100 last week for several days. Instantly I knew whatever I volunteered had to be outside, and then I remembered this World War 1 trench … [Read more...]

Filed Under: history Tagged With: All American History 2, Europe, modern history, Mystery of History 4, US history, World War 1

Great Depression movies you can watch with the whole family

June 23, 2017 By Ticia 26 Comments

  Now that we’ve moved into the 20th Century there are many movies you can watch to gain a feeling for the eras we’re studying.  As a family we love to watch movies together, and it’s fun to watch movies to learn about the Great Depression.  I’ve got some real favorites … [Read more...]

Filed Under: history Tagged With: All American History 2, hands on learning, modern history, movies and history, United States history

They didn’t teach you this about World War 2 in your history class

February 17, 2017 By Ticia 2 Comments

Japanese internment camps of World Wa

When I was in high school I was a huge Star Trek fan.  That love has slightly abated, I don’t read all Star Trek books obsessively, but I still love Star Trek.  In high school I read George Takei’s autobiography, To The Stars*.  It was the first time I ever heard of the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: history, reading and writing Tagged With: All American History 2, book list, modern history, Mystery of History 4, North America, US history

World War 1 writing assignment

February 10, 2017 By Ticia 2 Comments

World War 1 writing assignment

While previous wars had newspapers, and political cartoons.  World War 1 is probably the first war to have a newspaper made for just the soldiers (if you know otherwise I’d love to hear it). It was such a novel concept this even became a Horrible History sketch.  Of course, we … [Read more...]

Filed Under: history, reading and writing Tagged With: All American History 2, Europe, modern history, Mystery of History 4, World War 1

World War 1 nurse’s hat craft

February 8, 2017 By Ticia 4 Comments

World War 1 nurse hat

By World War 1 nursing was finally recognized as a profession and as a noble service.  There had been recent work to get medics universally recognized as non-combatants, so they were now, in theory, not going to be shot at while helping the wounded.  This led to the universally … [Read more...]

Filed Under: history Tagged With: All American History 2, Europe, modern history, Mystery of History 4, US history, World War 1

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