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  • Design a Siege Tower

    Design a Siege Tower

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    When we talk about technology we always think in terms of digital items. We think something that involves a screen most likely because that’s what technology has been recently. But thousands of years ago technological advances were much simpler it was the inclined plane or the screw. When the Assyrian Empire was around they created…

  • Napoleonic wars history lesson

    Napoleonic wars history lesson

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    As we started our Napoleonic wars history lesson, I jokingly said, “It’s all his fault we got World War 2.” Then the kids looked at me like I was slightly crazy, and I thought, “Challenge accepted!” Then proceeded to gather up some legos, a map, and some vis-a-vis for our history lesson, turning it into…

  • LEGO History

    LEGO History

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    In our homeschool history lessons we pull out a lot of LEGOs to create LEGO history. LEGOs have a wide variety of uses in your history and geography lessons: provide visual aid of how history unfolded build famous monuments re-enact famous scenes in history I’m sure there’s even more that I haven’t thought of yet,…

  • Ancient Sumerian lessons

    Ancient Sumerian lessons

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    Occasionally in our homeschool history lessons we get inspired by our book to dig deeper. I don’t know if it was reading the lesson and thinking how fun it would be to build a super tall building, or if the kids remembered the last time we read about Ancient Sumeria, but this time our Ancient Sumeria…

  • Joan of Arc unit

    Joan of Arc unit

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    Ticia of 2019 here, I first published this Jan. 1 of 2016, but we went and saw Henry V last night, and this Joan of Arc unit is the only history lesson I have from the Hundred Years War. That is a tragedy of epic proportions that must be remedied, especially since we covered middle…