The Roaring 20’s led way to the Great Depression of the 30’s.  Such a stark difference from one decade to the other.
When we went through our first four-year cycle of history using The Story of the World as our main spine, I have to admit that we glossed over modern American history at the time.  [...]

WWI has been richly covered and lots of wonderful projects sit in our notebooks to prove it.  The School History site was invaluable for me during this unit!!  You can see some of the activities we chose to use from School History below.

This map shows the allies at the beginning of the war.

This is a [...]

Lots of people over time have asked where I find ideas for the project choices I give my children.  At this point, most of the ideas are dreamed up in my head, but it hasn’t always been that way.  Some of the books I use include:

Better Than Book Reports is book is full of great [...]

Here’s one more really good question that has come in regarding unit studies specifically relating to projects…
“In regards to projects and presentations, how do you gently help improve the note taking, thoroughness of information and actual presentations?  I know some of this will come with practice, but I’d like to improve on these things without [...]

A few more questions have come up regarding how I organize and plan our unit studies.  You can find the first post at Unit Studies Revisited and the follow-up post at Unit Study Questions Answered.  As long as you keep asking questions, I’ll keep answering. 
“To clarify, it sounds like you do one unit [...]