American History
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Book List for Native America (Kaya) Unit Study
Book & Resources List for Native America Unit Study If you are studying Native Americans or Early American History this year, I hope that this list of literature, non-fiction books, activity guides, movies, and more will make history come alive! There are resources in this list for lots of different ages so that your whole family can learn TOGETHER! If some of the books are too difficult, read them aloud! If some are too simple, have an older sibling read to their younger sibling. If you need higher level books, require these to be independent reading and add a few more challenging ones in! Curl up on the couch…
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The Great Depression – American Girl Kit Unit Study
Welcome to the 7th Unit Study in the American Girl History series! It’s the time of America’s Great Depression ! Hear the stories of hardship and hope through the eyes of American Girl Kit Kittredge… In this Unit, we will learn what daily life was like during the days of the Great Depression. We’ll discover what the shocking “crash” on Wall Street was all about and how American life changed overnight… we’ll travel across the country by rail with families looking for work, and imagine ourselves facing the “black blizzards” in the dry and dusty midwest. If you’ve been traveling through history with the American Girl Unit Studies, you know by…
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History Audiobooks For Kids
Top 10 History Audiobooks For Kids! Welcome back to the “Top 10 Teaching History Helps” series! Who doesn’t need a little help teaching ?! I’m here to help!! And I found so many exciting resources this month, that there are DOUBLE (and some!) the Top 10 History Helps in this post!! I’m so excited to share my Top 21 FAVORITE History Audiobooks (or Audio History Series) for kids! Why Audiobooks? I could easily do an entire post on why Audiobooks are beneficial for learning! Whether you have a crowd of auditory learners in your bunch, or not, the skills that LISTENING to read alouds builds (in all ages!) is…
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Thanksgiving History- History and the Holidays
History and the Holidays- Thanksgiving Through History Do you know when and where our celebration of Thanksgiving began? Did you guess that the first Thanksgiving happened in 1621? Did a picture of a group of Wampanoag Indians gathered together with some of the Pilgrim settlers from Plymouth for a feast giving thanks for the fall harvest pop into your head? If it did, you aren’t wrong… But was that really the FIRST Thanksgiving?
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History Songs For Kids
Top 10 Teaching History Helps: History Songs For Kids! Welcome back to the “Top 10 Teaching History Helps” series! What do you remember about History from your school days? Was it a fun hands-on project that brought George Washington’s Christmas crossing on the Delaware to life? Maybe a teacher who stood on a desk to recite Patrick Henry’s “Give me liberty, or give me death!” speech? Or maybe you weren’t fortunate enough to have a teacher like that, and you just snoozed your way through History. No matter what our own experiences may have been, we can make History exciting, memorable, and ALIVE for our kids! This series is packed…
