Creation lesson activity Mystery of History 1
Future Ticia here, in the fall of 2018 we’re cycling back to Ancient History for the last time, and I wanted to see what we’ve done in the past in our history lessons. Since we’ll start off with this...
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Recently I assigned my kids a very simple research paper. One that still allowed them plenty of imagination. But, the concept behind this early elementary research paper is still sound. Then I set...
View ArticleDon’t get lost in the minotaur’s maze as you study ancient Minoans
We are heading back to ancient history this coming year in our history lessons, and this past week I’ve been working on my plans for the Minoans. I remembered how much fun we had with our Minoan...
View ArticleThe Great Wall of China is made of play dough
Little known fact: The Great Wall of China is made of play dough. NO really. That’s what we learned in our homeschool history lesson this time. It’s a little known fact from ancient history. Future...
View ArticleExploring Worldview
This past year, I took a different plan for our history lessons, instead of following along with a textbook, I planned out our curriculum based on units. We started this whole thing off a pre-history...
View ArticleAncient 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...
View ArticleAncient Sumerian lessons
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...
View ArticleSoul of the Empire Board Game, Roman history
My son, Superman, is a huge fan of Ancient Rome. This is probably an understatement, but he has quite a lot of ancient Rome stuff, and he’s why I’ve got a big huge ancient Rome history section on my...
View ArticleXerxes 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...
View ArticleChallenge your kids to make a shaduf
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...
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