Learn about Ancient Greece with these free printable books to read, color, and learn! Fun geography & history worksheets.
We have been doing some fascinating activities for our Medieval History unit, (Viking Runes, Medieval Illuminations, and our own homemade Medieval Subtleties) but this craft or "craftivity" turned out the most beautiful of all. We created our own stained glass windows! This is an easy activity, especially if you purchase our premade Medieval Window packet which includes 4 possible designs for your students to choose from to make their window. You will also need a transparency sheet (or some recycled flat plastic), a sharpie, food coloring and glue. And some Q-tips. Because we always fall back on Q-tips as an easy go-to paintbrush for these kinds of activities. After drawing the designs on the transparencies with black sharpies, we cut out our window shapes. And we began to fill in the window shapes with our glue paint. To make it easier, we cut out our paper design and taped it, along with the transparency to the table. It kept our image stable while the kids filled in the colors. After the colored glue had dried, we cut out our window edging and glued it over the glass. An optional idea is to go over the top of the sharpie with black puffy paint. This raised black edging makes the stained glass really pop. It feels just like the leaded glass stained windows you might see in an old church or heraldic window. The finished product is tacked to the window so that the light can stream through, just like it streamed through Medieval stained glass windows, many years ago. A beautiful finished product! Check out our packet that includes everything you need to create this craft, here in our store. Reviews "My students were completely engaged and created a great deal of stained glass with this project. We researched how stained glass was made with Medieval techniques (the V&A Museum has a fantastic video!) and then we got to work, having unearthed a box of old transparencies, which I think really makes this project. We also were creating them for our Medieval Faire for our K-3rd graders and they found the stained glass captivating. I would have never guessed they would have looked so good! Excellent lesson!" --- Anne C. "Loved the informational text. It was so helpful. The activity wasn't as engaging as I'd hoped, but it was still worth the purchase." --- Get Schooled "We a learning about the role of churches during the Medieval time period so this is a great supplemental for us and a nice break from the heavy reading and material. The students enjoyed creating these." --- Pham-tastic Teaching "One of the better stained-glass projects I've seen. Worked greatly for my A&H class!" --- Eli Edwards "We used the patterns to make our own stained glass. We used sharpies instead of glue and they came out beautifully." --- Tippecanoe "I used this resource to supplement what we were learning in class. My students loved the activity?" --- Wendy E. "This was a fun activity to do in my summer program during medieval week." --- Karen C. "My students really enjoyed making them, and were so proud of the outcome. We did what someone else suggested and just used permanent sharpies. They look awesome!" --- Randy Bland "My students loved this activity! We completed it in the middle of our Middle Ages reading unit. To make them even more stained glass in appearance, they lightly used a cotton ball to spread vegetable oil on the back to make them translucent." --- Dayna K. Check out our packet that includes everything you need to create this craft, here in our store.
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Do you struggle to find the time to teach your students about important events in history? Your students are going to love delving into a daily bit of history when you use This Day in History monthly calendar numbers. This Day in History calendar introduces your students to an event that happened on that particular day sometime in history. Your students will love the anticipation of learning what event took place on that day. This Day in History is a FULL YEAR calendar resource that is great to use on its own or in conjunction with This Day in History Bell Ringers resource. This companion resource includes a full year of morning work covering these same events in more detail. The morning work contains questions related to comprehension, grammar, vocabulary, sentence structure, and more: This Day in History Classroom Calendar resource includes: Calendar title: “ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY” 365 calendar cards (all 12 months included) Months Days of the week ⚠️ IMPORTANT: While there is history from many different countries included in the cards, a lot of the cards reflect American history, and would probably serve better for those teaching in American schools. Also, while I shied away from most murders and other gruesome events, there are a few included that I felt were important to history (assassination of a president, etc.) For this reason, I wouldn't suggest this resource to anyone under fourth grade (maybe even fifth). Please note: Each calendar number measures roughly 4" wide and 4 1/4" tall. Because I needed to make the numbers large enough to read the text, these will not fit on a standard calendar poster like you would get from a teacher supply store. I just make my own background with squares of colored paper in a grid, or you could use marker or tape to get that same effect.
Integrate art and literacy with no prep or background knowledge with step by step tutorials for art history and art around the world!
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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
Why History Matters Interactive Bulletin Board This resource includes 35 interactive cards to be used in a bulletin board display focusing on "Why History Matters." Topics included are: Why history matters? What skills do we learn when we study history? What does it mean to think like a historian? How are historians like detectives? What is historiography? What is a primary source? What is a secondary source? Why is sourcing important? What is oral history? What is historical inquiry? What is continuity and change? And more! A title, "Why History Matters" is included. This resource also includes two bonus visually appealing note pages that may be used in conjunction with the bulletin board or may be used alone. (Students may use the bulletin board as a reference when completing the notes pages.) A completed notes page is also included. (I provide the completed notes page to my students who struggle with note-taking. I have my students highlight important information on the completed notes page.) Topics included in the notes pages are: Why study history? Tools of a historian. Thinking like a historian, and more! QR Codes are included. NOTE: An answer key is NOT included with the notes pages. Answers will vary on both notes pages depending on the student and depending on how the notes pages are used. The notes pages are included in this resource as a BONUS. Feel free to use them or discard them if you wish. A bonus "Why History Matters" station activity is also included in this resource. This activity includes 5 stations (primary and secondary source sorting activity, quote analysis activity, and more! Bulletin board templates and station card templates are included if you choose to add your own bulletin board cards and/or stations.
To help people have a visual aid when presenting something history related, we are proud to introduce this free history PPT & Google Slides presentation template.
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When I was a child, we had laminated strips of brightly colored paper lining the wall of our homeschool room. As we studied our homeschool history lessons (textbook-free, of course), we would add timeline characters of key figures and events to the colorful timeline on our wall. The timeline served…
If you are doing Montessori at home, this free Montessori curriculum download will be a God-send! Come and take a look!
As a classroom teacher, you often get hit with that question – usually within the first week of school by a student who “Does Not Want To Be Here”… and truthfully, how do you answer
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These free history unit studies and lesson plans are perfect for piecing together a history curriculum based on your children’s interests.
These are the best things to do in Tirana. A city with the best cafés, amazing food, and lots of culture. Learn what to do in Tirana, here.
The daily practice of art history warm-ups will develop art criticism skills while investigating a broad range of artists throughout history.
Ways to explore Medieval Europe.
Rejection is one of those things all of us have to face. It might be in a studio review; our professor is not happy with our work or the direction we've taken. It can even be in the workplace, after working hard on something, those above us ridicule and criticize it. And there are still those...
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From free history curriculum to fun timeline activities!
Read our ultimate guide to one of Italy's most charming cities and find out why you need to visit Matera now! Best things to do, top tips & practical info.
As the largest Mediterranean island, Sicily is the perfect place to spend a week, exploring and experiencing some of the most famous parts of Italy. The adventures, food, and people are completely unforgettable. Not
I recently helped with a neighboring stake’s Family Discovery Day. I was delighted to be contacted about it. We came up with family history ideas to keep the children busy for 3 hours while t…
Set of FREE printable world map choices with blank maps and labeled options for learning geography, countries, capitals, famous landmarks
Have you ever wondered what you 'should' teach in an elementary history course? This post is for you! It can help you choose an elementary history curriculum or you can use it as a starting
Don't Decorate - Design! It is back to school time, and teachers all across the US are frantically putting up posters and bulletin boards to decorate their room before the first day of school. But instead
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Reading about the explorers to America and doing hands-on activities helps us too explore. This time, we're exploring the explorers!
Here's my guide to the must see masterpieces in Florence Italy, for the art lover's checklist. Florence is the cradle of art in the Western world. Florence is home to scores of museums, palaces, churches, and cloisters that contain incredible masterpieces. There's an intense concentration of art works by the greatest artists of the Renaissance.
