Hands-on activities for studying world history are the best way for your kids to get a deeper understanding of the country all around us.
Want to add history to your day, but struggling to get the basics done? Try this simple homeschool history plan that works!
From free history curriculum to fun timeline activities!
Inside: Nazca Lines craft for kids learning about Peruvian culture and history. It’s Hispanic Heritage Month, 2017! At the end of this post, find our Multicultural Kid Blogs HHM giveaway for some fun prizes. Today I’m sharing an exploratory Nazca lines craft. The project gives hands-on feel for these marvels of Peru, and how they were
Get hands-on with these history activities for preschool and kindergarten! Here are crafts, books, and more for bringing history alive.
Learn about Ancient Greece with these free printable books to read, color, and learn! Fun geography & history worksheets.
Find out all the top picks for fun games to play in class. Liven up the classroom with these engaging games and activities.
Everything you need to start homeschooling history with your elementary kiddos--without a formal history curriculum!
Update your Social Studies classroom decor cheaply and easily with fun and useful decor. Make your classroom fun and inviting for students.
The daily practice of art history warm-ups will develop art criticism skills while investigating a broad range of artists throughout history.
Learn how to use social studies political cartoons to increase student engagement. Includes link to a free political cartoon analysis activity!
These Doodle Style notes are based on the key concepts for US history including the Political Development, Geographic Expansion, Social/Cultural Developments, and Economic Expansion of early America. What a fun way to review key concepts in early American history! The templates come in non-unit and unit-specific graphic organizers covering: the Colonies the American Revolution the Constitution New Nation Worlds of North and South Civil War 6 Non-unit specific choices. Students complete the templates after class notes, reading textbook chapters or informational texts, at the end of the unit, or even after finishing a chapter test (while waiting for students to finish). This activity is a class favorite that is easy to implement. It's great to share and hang in the classroom. This also makes for a great sub-plan/lesson for Ancient or Medieval World History! Includes 25 pages in total: ✅ A key concept handout that explains common key concepts for US history and provides reference definitions/examples ✅ 14 fun templates with varying fill-in options and doodle globes ✅ 5 example pages ✅ Teacher directions and ideas ______________________________________________________________________________________ ⇒ Be sure to FOLLOW us on: ✓ TPT to receive notifications of new products, sales, and notes to followers. Just click the “follow me” button. ✓Pinterest for creative classroom ideas, lessons, and more. ✓Instagram for laughs and to see products at use in the classroom. ✓Facebook for interesting articles, posts, & tips! ✓Twitter for random acts of teaching @instructomania ✓ Check out our website & blog Terms of Use ☺ ©Instructomania, Inc. All rights reserved by Tony and Erika Pavlovich. This product is to be used by the original downloader only. Additional teachers must purchase their own licenses. If you are a teacher, principal, or district interested in purchasing several licenses, TPT now offers multiple license options. About Instructomania with Mr. & Mrs. P: World History includes both Ancient and Medieval history lesson plans and complete unit packets. In the Ancient history and Medieval history curriculum, you will find lesson plans and activities that support inquiry-based learning through evidence-driven literacy and writing that aligns with Common Core. Our student-centered Social Science lessons teach students to analyze social studies content by using the key concepts of geography, economy, achievements, religion, social classes, and government. Students use academic vocabulary, in highly engaging, fun history investigations, interactive Google-ready content, visually rich graphic organizer resources, and thematic assignments.
Add Take Time for Art to your history curriculum this homeschool year. Take Time for Art is a hands-on art program that will enhance your history year.
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The Unfair Game is a totally unfair twist on Jeopardy that your students will LOVE to hate! Learn how to play and find sample game boards in this post.
In the hands-on Silk Road game, players travel the Marco Polo Silk Road through dangerous deserts to far cities. Can they trade for a profit back in Venice?
This is the perfect First Day of School activity for any Social Studies Class!This "History of Me" activity has students reflect on their own lives and personal history to help them learn the importance of knowing history and how it can create understanding, empathy and compassion. This activity com...
Free tutorials and printables resources for fun, hands-on history activities for kids. Includes areas such as ancient history and U.S. history.
Celebrate Columbus Day for kids this October with these cute crafts, activities, and worksheets for preschool, kindergarten, and grade 1!
Get your students thinking like a historian from the get-go with these tips and ideas for your first Social Studies lesson of the year.
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Add a little pizzazz to your lessons with some United States History Activities that your students will love!
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Is your 5th grader going to be in a Living History Museum at school? Here are 30 wax museum project ideas for boys and girls!
The "Mona Lisa", "The Last Supper", "Starry Nights", and "Whistler's Mother" are paintings that have inspired and awed people for generations.
These free history unit studies and lesson plans are perfect for piecing together a history curriculum based on your children’s interests.
10 Westward Expansion Hands-on Homeschool History Activities
Learn about Early Explorers for Kids with this fun, 5-week history lesson unit for elementary age kids to learn about the Vikings, Columbus, Magellan, and more!
Embark on the Glacier Express for a luxury train voyage through the Swiss Alps, from Zermatt to St. Moritz, on a panoramic ride of a lifetime.
These coordinate graphing projects are fun for the student and make a great bulletin board idea as well. This project can be used for either a French class or History class or for a mathematics class learning fractional coordinates. Students will use their knowledge of coordinate graphing and ordered pairs to work creating a drawing of the Arc de Triomphe. This will be created by plotting ordered pairs and then connecting them with straight lines. This activity can be a class project or something to be worked on independently when time allows. It also works as an extra credit assignment or when there is a substitute. This project is for the intermediate coordinate graphing student but also can be used by the advanced student as well. The graph consists of points in the first quadrant using ordered pairs with whole numbers and many fractional points using the fractions 1/4, 1/3, 1/2, 2/3 and 3/4 for detail. When finished, they can use markers, colored pencils or other medium to enhance the project. To keep the difficulty level down, we have provided the circles and a few lines on the graph paper. Included in this download is: Coordinate graph paper for plotting, a coordinate list, a full sized answer key and a sample of the completed project in color. Also included is: Student Directions for Plotting Coordinates, Directions for Plotting Coordinates with Fractions, Directions for Plotting Coordinates in Quadrant I, Directions for Plotting Coordinates in All Quadrants, Details for Plotting Coordinates with Fractions in Quadrant I, and Details for Plotting Coordinates with Fractions in All Quadrants. If you like this project please let us know. There are over 50 projects covering the entire school year and some projects which are cross curricular (Sports, Patriotism, Seasons, Holidays, History, Foreign Language and Science). Lessons begin at 4th grade and are appropriate for the Middle School and some for High School students. These projects have been used successfully at both the Elementary and Middle School levels. All projects are copyrighted, so please don’t distribute them to all of your colleagues. Instead direct them to our Store: http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Anthony-And-Linda-Iorlano Anthony & Linda Iorlano NCTM Standards Specify locations and describe spatial relationships using coordinate geometry and other representational systems. Common Core State Standards CCSS.Math.Content.5.G.A.1 Use a pair of perpendicular number lines, called axes, to define a coordinate system, with the intersection of the lines (the origin) arranged to coincide with the 0 on each line and a given point in the plane located by using an ordered pair of numbers, called its coordinates. Understand that the first number indicates how far to travel from the origin in the direction of one axis, and the second number indicates how far to travel in the direction of the second axis, with the convention that the names of the two axes and the coordinates correspond (e.g., x-axis and x-coordinate, y-axis and y-coordinate).
Virginia history begins with studies of the Jamestown Colony, and this post is filled with ideas for teaching about Colonial Times across the curriculum. Check it out on Virginia is for Teachers.
World Geography can be boring for students but you can make it FUN! Your kiddos will LOVE creating their own globe using a balloon and cut-outs. This set includes: Student materials list and directions, detailed continent shapes, more broad continent shapes (easier cutting), compass graphic, continent labels, ocean labels, North Pole labels, reference map of the world. Balloon Suggestion (affiliate link): 12"latex balloons (100 count), Royal Blue Don't want to use a balloon? Some teachers have told me they've used paper mache, pumpkins, and posters. If you happen to take pictures of your completed projects, I would LOVE to see them! You can tag me on Instagram (@Learning_Lab) or email them to me at [email protected].
Students can travel across the globe without leaving the classroom. Check out these fun geography lessons for any grade and curriculum.
Look for ideas for the Age of Exploration? Then you need to read this post with over 30 ideas for the age of Exploration.
