10 Westward Expansion Hands-on Homeschool History Activities
Check out these Ancient Egypt for kids activities. These educational hands-on projects, books, videos, and field trip recommendations make a great unit study.
Engaging Charlotte Mason geography activities for your homeschool with map study, drawing, and discussion. All are vital to an understanding of history.
I attempted to do a wall timeline with Caroline a number of years ago. For a variety of reasons, it did not work for her. I think part of it was her age, part of it was her learning challenges, and part of it was the layout. However, I believe a timeline can be a
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!
These Ancient Rome activities will keep kids interested while they learn about this ancient culture.
Free tutorials and printables resources for fun, hands-on history activities for kids. Includes areas such as ancient history and U.S. history.
Engaging Charlotte Mason geography activities for your homeschool with map study, drawing, and discussion. All are vital to an understanding of history.
Hands-on learning isn't just for younger students! These hands-on activities for middle and high schoolers will help older students enjoy learning and stay actively engaged in the process.
These free history unit studies and lesson plans are perfect for piecing together a history curriculum based on your children’s interests.
Roy Lichtenstein is one of my favorite artists. His work is bright, bold, graphic, and thought provoking. We were visiting Chicago a couple of years ago, and as luck would have it, we were there during an AMAZING Lichtenstein retrospective at the Art Institute of Chicago . (Side note: if y
These Ancient Rome activities will keep kids interested while they learn about this ancient culture.
Hands-on learning isn't just for younger students! These hands-on activities for middle and high schoolers will help older students enjoy learning and stay actively engaged in the process.
This ancient Mesopotamian cuneiform activity is a fun, hands-on history experience. Become ancient scribes writing on clay tablets with reeds.
From free history curriculum to fun timeline activities!
Get hands-on with these history activities for preschool and kindergarten! Here are crafts, books, and more for bringing history alive.
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…
Are you studying the Middle Ages or Medieval/Renaissance Times in your history this year? Maybe your children are just fascinated with princesses, knights and dragons. I love finding printables to supplement what we are studying in our homeschool, or to help peak my children's interest in a specific subject.
Guide to using Social Studies Simulations to step away from the lecture podium and engage your students with hands-on history activities.
Learn about the Presidents of the United States with these FREE printable American Presidents Worksheets and coloring pages for your homeschool classroom supplement to American History, Social Studies, or Omnibus Lessons.
Do you need a homeschool history curriculum for elementary kids? I'm sharing my secrets and resources for creating a love of history in your homeschool!
Hands-on learning isn't just for younger students! These hands-on activities for middle and high schoolers will help older students enjoy learning and stay actively engaged in the process.
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.
Christopher Colombus Lapbook and Notebook Study
Finding hands-on learning activities for older children can be very difficult. Here is a list of some of our favorites, inlcuding history and language arts.
The timeline is a useful tool for tying together learning in a living education. We spend time each week adding to our timeline cards, and I regularly work on a personal timeline. Here are a few favorite timeline resources. 🕰️ The Peaceful Press Timeline Cards -These cards include dates and na
I've reviewed the best unit studies for homeschoolers so your family can learn all the subjects together while staying on one topic!
Free homeschool art curriculum with famous artists, art history lessons, world culture, easy art techniques and a weekly online art lesson.
In this Lighthouses Unit Study for PreK to High School: Learn about the Snell's Law & Light Refraction Tie a Maritime Knot & Read Longfellow Find Out How SONAR & the Fresnel Lens
If you enjoy learning about different artists in your homeschool, you will love learning about 8 of our favorite artists!
Handy free printable leif erikson for kids worksheet and coloring pages to make into readers to learn about famous early explorer!
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
Ways to explore Medieval Europe.
Reading about the explorers to America and doing hands-on activities helps us too explore. This time, we're exploring the explorers!
Interpreting history can seem like a daunting task for students, but with a few creative tools and ideas, teachers can bring historical events and people to life. I love providing students with an interconnection to the people who shaped our country. Our history is on-going and by studying our past, we can hopefully learn
There's no shortage of great history options for homeschooling families, but The Mystery of History is the only one of those options with a permanent place in our homeschool. Today I want to share an overview of our favorite homeschool history curriculum, but also why we choose it year after year.
You can find all of these resources to create your own Marco Polo Unit Study HERE.
I am starting a series where I share our Story of the World adventures. We started when my son was 7, and went very slowly at first, adjusting lessons to his short attention span. The next year we joined up with a co-op doing this Volume, and went at a much faster pace, so later chapters (7 and on) show that somewhat. I took notes and am gradually adding these as I have time. Sorry for the slow place on adding new units. NOTE: I don't want anyone to think you HAVE to do all the supplementary stuff we did for SOTW. Many people just read the chapters and talk about them, maybe do an extra activity now and then. We did so much at first because I have a kiddo that needed that to get him engaged, and also because I love history and just wanted to do some of these things with him. But as we progressed we gradually did less projects and supplementing. STORY OF THE WORLD POSTS All of my Story of the World posts will be linked below, once they're published. GENERAL SOTW RELATED POSTS My Review of the Story of the World Adjustments for Learners With Short Attentions Spans SOTW Bible Integration Historical Errors in Story of the World (Volume I) SOTW Guides on Other Sites Index of Changes in Revised Version Magic Treehouse Reading Alligned to SOTW Vol 1 and Vol 2 OTHER HISTORY RELATED POSTS Resources Combining History and Science Dover Sampler Free History Printables You-Tube Through Ancient History for Middle and High Schoolers OUR LESSON PLANS/IDEAS BY CHAPTER Each post will be linked as it is added INTRO How Do We Know What Happened - What Is History - What is Archaeology Chap 1 The Earliest People - The First Nomads - The First Nomads Become Farmers Chap 2 Egyptians Lived on the Nile River - Two Kingdoms Become One - Gods of Ancient Egypt Chap 3 The First Writing Chap 4 The Old Kingdom of Egypt - Making Mummies - Egyptian Pyramids Chap 5 The First Sumerian Dictator Chap 6 - The Jewish People Chap 7 - Hammurabi and the Babylonians Chap 8 - The Assyrians Chap 9 The First Cities of India - The River Road - The Mystery of Mohenjo-Daro Chap 10 The Far East: Ancient China - Lei Zu and the Silkworm - The Pictograms of Ancient China - Farming in Ancient China Chap 11 Ancient Africa - Ancient Peoples of West Africa - Anansi and Turtle - Anansi and the Make Believe Food (Sorry, we skipped this) Chap 12 The Middle Kingdom of Egypt - Egypt Invades Nubia - The Hyksos Invade Egypt Chap 13 The New Kingdom of Egypt - The General and the Woman Pharaoh - Amenhotep and King Tut Chap 14 The Israelites Leave Egypt (Moses/Exodus) Chap 15 The Phoenicians Chap 16 The Return of the Assyrians --- Chapter 18 - 25 (Ancient Greece) For now, I'm just sharing a outline of the resources I used for these chapters. Please stop by often to see what's been added! This post is linking up at Hip Homeschool Moms, The Homeschool Nook, A Little Bird Told Me, Love to Learn Hop, School House Review, Dear Homeschooler Bookshelf, Throwback Thursday, and Back to Homeschool Blog Hop 2017 (no longer up): Curriculum, and various other homeschool link-ups. If you would like to share this post but need a more square graphic....here you go....
Your enthusiasm over the patriotic resources we've been sharing has been so fun! Here you will find all of them in one place.
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].
All about Labor Day for kids: learn what is Labor Day and why is Labor Day celebrated. Get Labor Day lessons, activities and craft ideas for this important patriotic holiday to celebrate with your family or even use as lesson plans in the classroom.
