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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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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...
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Be a Time Traveler: How to teach an Ancient Greece Unit
One day during my high school career I went up to my favorite English teacher and asked her a rather esoteric question about Greek mythology. She looked at me and said, “Actually Ticia, if I wanted to...
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20 Ancient Greece books to inspire a love of history
There is something magical about finding the book that keeps your child’s attention. For Superman the very first book that kept his attention was an A to Z mystery book. With each new homeschool...
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How to learn the Greek gods and goddesses
We are reaching one of my favorite parts of Ancient history, Greek and Greek mythology. I was blessed enough to go to Europe in high school, and while there I found the most awesome book about Greek...
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Ancient Greeks for preschool
When people tell me little kids can’t learn about ancient history, I always give them a strange look. My kids loved learning about ancient history in our homeschool history lesson. Take our ancient...
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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...
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Aesop’s Fables, a fun a quick lesson
This Aesop’s Fables lesson is a quick and easy way to get your kids interacting with the material, and is a fun way to bring in homeschool history lesson (which is how we originally used it). The...
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How to write a research paper
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...
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Don’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...
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The 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...
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Exploring 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...
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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...
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Ancient 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...
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Soul 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...
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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...
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Challenge 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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