Family-Style Homeschooling
Layers of Learning history includes cultures from all over world like Ancient South America, Medieval African Kingdoms, and Modern Israel plus all the typical topics like Ancient Egypt and the Renaissance. Explore history hands on with printables, crafts, models, reenactments and more.
This post has a printable timeline of World War One to assemble as well as a hands-on 3D map to build of the first battle of World War One, the Battle of Mons. There’s a cool legend about angels protecting the British.
Color a map of the Cold War world. The USA and NATO versus the USSR and the Warsaw pact. The map also shows “hot spots” where actually wars broke out and places where guerrillas were operating.
Print, color, and craft planes from WWII. Many of these planes fought in the Battle of Britain, one of the earliest battles of WWII.
This exploration about the “big three” ancient Greek philosophers is for high schoolers. Learn about Socrates, Aristotle, and Plato and their ideas.
The Book of Years is a timeline you research, color, and write yourself.
Print and color a booklet of the legend of the Capitoline geese, who saved Rome from invading Gauls.
Research one of the Northeast Woodland tribes that early settlers to the Americas would have come across. All ages of kids can make a project about the tribes and then write a research paper about them.
Play a game focusing on the power struggle between shoguns in Japan during the feudal period. Roll dice and win armies of samurai.
Color a map of Columbus’ first voyage. Then, for young ones only, make a spy glass and a captain’s hat.
Try a Renaissance recipe by making these small cakes with all of your children.
Make a medieval book by stitching the pages together and sewing on a cover. Use the book to collect things you learn about the middle ages.
Use the printable and a copy of the U.S. Constitution to learn what the roles of each of the three branches entails. You’ll use colored pencils to color code as you go along.