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Field Trip to Butser Ancient Celtic Farm

What better way to round off our study of the Celts than to visit a “real” (reconstructed) Celtic village?  I love the way learning leads the way to new experiences – I didn’t even know Butser Ancient...

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Japan – History & Geography

Japanese Ink Wash Painting – Evening Landscape (anon) c.1540 This post is about some “spin-off fun” we’ve been having as we’ve been learning about medieval Japan. We’re using The Story of the World vol...

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Aboriginal Dot Painting for Kids

This week we learned a bit about early Australian history. We read some lovely books and had fun making Aboriginal dot art paintings. Books We began by reading Explore History: Australia, which...

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Miniature Japanese Zen Garden For Kids

As part of learning about how Zen Buddhism spread to Japan in the Middle Ages, we made miniature Japanese Zen Gardens. It seemed like a great excuse to play with sand! What You Need Sand Pebbles or...

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Field Trip to Benjamin Franklin House

Whenever I write about a field trip I  feel like I’m back in infants school writing in my “news” book on a Monday morning: “We went to a museum.  It was fun.” (Though back then apparently all I ever...

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History Curriculum 2013-14

Hands-on history projects Why do we teach our children history? Is it to help them become culturally literate? To give them a sense of perspective on where the human race stands now?  To give them...

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Almost Unschooling History

We may not be doing school time this year but that doesn’t mean we’re not enjoying learning history. Here’s how we do it. It’s not much different from the way most homeschoolers do history. The key...

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Hands-On Russian History

We took a couple of fun rabbit trails – one artistic, one linguistic – when we learned about early Russian history. History How Russia got its name Russia (the land of the Rus) derives its name from...

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Hands-On Ottoman History – Design Your Own Turkish Rug

The fall of Constantinople to the Turks in 1453 marked the end of the last vestiges of the Byzantine Empire (the Eastern part of the old Roman Empire). The Ottoman Turks, who ruled over the largest...

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Hands-on Aztec History

The Aztecs dominated Central America from the 14th to 16th centuries. They founded the magnificent floating city of Tenochtitlan (modern Mexico City) and – more importantly – were among the first...

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