American History
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American Girl Unit Studies Overview
It’s BACK TO HOME-SCHOOL TIME! If your plans include the American Girl History Units this year, this post is just for YOU! A friend recently asked me if I could give her an outline of what each of the American Girl Unit Studies cover. As I went through and put it all together, I thought it might be helpful to some of you as well! I have completed the FREE Unit Studies for: +American Girl Kaya (Native America-1764) +American Girl Felicity (Colonial America-1774) +American Girl Josefina (America’s Southwest Frontier- 1824) +American Girl Kirsten (Pioneer America- 1854) +American Girl Addy (Civil War America- 1864) +American Girl Samantha (Turn of the Century-…
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Top 10 History Movies For Kids
Welcome to Part 5: Top 10 Teaching History Helps For Kids Today I’m excited to add to the Top 10 History Helps, my TOP 10 HISTORY MOVIES FOR KIDS! Grab some POPCORN and get cozy! I hope you’ve been finding all kinds of tips and tricks in the Top 10 History series! So far I’ve shared my absolute favorite Top 10 History Podcasts For Kids, hopefully gotten your entire family singing some of the Top 10 History Songs For Kids (sorry some of them just get stuck in your head forever lol), showed you how to make 10 History Timelines For Kids that would fit any homeschooling space and talked…
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Southwestern Frontier Unit (American Girl Josefina) Book List
How much do you know about the colorful history and rich culture of America’s Southwestern Frontier? This Book List is packed full of… well… BOOKS of course! But you’ll also find family friendly movies, hands-on activity guides, craft kits, games, and more resources that will spark your family’s IMAGINATION and take you back to Santa Fe, New Mexico in the early 1820’s! Explore what life was like on the Santa Fe and El Camino Real Trails! What you your family have to trade? Would you live in a pueblo on a rancho like Josefina, the young girl in some of the stories? Or would you travel along with the…
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Top 10 History Books For Kids
Welcome to Part 6: Top 10 Teaching History Helps For Kids TOP 10 HISTORY BOOKS FOR KIDS! **Actually… This is THE ULTIMATE HISTORY BOOK LIST For Kids!** If you’ve been following along with these “Top 10” posts, you know that there are usually quite a few more favorites than 10… and come on… it’s a HISTORY BOOK list!!! So…I’ve broken this Top 10 List down into TYPES of History Books for kids, and then listed my favorites under that, because there were just SO MANY really good books to share! I’ve got lists of books for your littles right on up through teens! It is that time of year…
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Books and Resources List For Colonial America (Felicity) Unit
Studying the beginnings of the United States of America should be a part of every child’s education! You may be coming to this Colonial America Book List to find ideas to supplement your own US History study, or you may be using this companion list of resources along with the FREE Colonial America (American Girl Felicity) Unit Study, or Fields of Daisies’ FREE Early American History Curriculum. Either way, you will hopefully find LOTS of suggestions for historical fiction and non-fiction books, movie ideas, hands-on activity guides, board games, coloring books, craft kits, and all kinds of other fun ways to make your study of US History come alive and STICK…
