Modern History

What kid doesn't love parachutes? My boys have gotten so many of those parachuting army men as party favors, I've lost count. And forget ...

This is a great activity when teaching about the home-front during World War II. In this activity students will be given $2.00 and 48 ration points to purchase items to feed their family of four. They must create a balanced menu for breakfast, lunch and dinner without exceeding their spending limit ...

$ This mini-lesson will help your students understand how Europe's borders changed after World War II, during the Cold War, and after the collapse of the Soviet Union. You can use this as guided notes, station work, homework, in an interactive notebook, and much more!

How to Build the Alamo: Day 5 Hands-on Learning (Free Texas Unit Study). Hands-on history brings learning alive. Look how to make the Alamo. via @tinashomeschool

Bring history alive with this fun hands-on history idea for World War II! Teach kids about making do with the ingredients you have by making ration cakes.

They didn't teach you this about World War 2 in your history class

I used to struggle to make the Great Depression experience more real for my students; I was looking for a way to help my classes understand how the Crash of 1929 caused a cascading series of devast…

A few weeks ago in a blogging group, we got to talking about outside learning for the summer. Y’all Texas summer is hot, like it was over 100 last week for several days. Instantly I knew whatever I volunteered had to be outside, and then I remembered this World War 1 trench warfare lesson from […]

world war 1 trench cake

Trench model. Year 6

Bring US history to life by throwing a Dolley Madison party! These fun activities are a great way to teach about one of our most colorful first ladies.

How did World War 1 start? Well, let's pull out a map of Europe and walk through how World War 1 started.

Students will create a timeline of events, an account of the 13 days for the battle and siege of the Alamo in this interactive notebook activity. Students will also create a diary as if they were there on the days that the siege took place.

There was a whole heap of interesting stuff going on in the early 1800’s. Great Britain was indeed great and steaming forth as leaders in the industrial revolution (steaming? Geddit?!); the…

As part of our Jane Austen learning, the girls decided to hold a Georgian tea party, Jane Austen style. I am so blessed by older girls who want to make the little ones’ childhood as magical …