Our history unit about slavery and the Civil War has been completed, and what a wonderfully rich unit it was! Slavery and Civil War Teaching Resources You might remember from my post about Planning a Large Unit Study, that I pick and choose the best ideas for our learning styles and learning objectives from many…
We love learning about the beginnings of our great country! We’ve spent much time in books, perusing museums and attending reenactments to get a good picture of everything from the Native Americans and Pilgrims to the Revolution and Westward Expansion. As usual, when it comes to historical living books, it was very hard to narrow…
There is so much goodness to learn about during a modern history study. We loved our living literature-based approach. This post contains affiliate links. Modern History For us, modern history goes from 1860 to the present. That’s a lot of territory with a lot of happenings to cover in one school year! Here’s our plan…
Tucked away in downtown Maysville, KY, overlooking the Ohio River is the National Underground Railroad Museum. My children had the pleasure of touring the museum located in the Bierbower House, which was a safe house for runaway slaves. Crawling through an underground tunnel that opened into a small room of four beds, runaway slaves could…
In case you don’t know, Frankfort is the capital of Kentucky. It’s also where I grew up and where my family still lives. There is a wealth of field trip opportunity in Frankfort from government to history to museums and more. We’ve been trying to make it a habit to go on a quick field…
Slavery and Civil War Teaching Resources You might remember from my post about Planning a Large Unit Study, that I pick and choose the best ideas for our learning styles and learning objectives from many resources. These are the the fabulous materials that provided many of my lesson plans. National Geographic Underground Railroad Interactive Civil…
I can’t tell you enough about how we have been blessed by reading the books below during our slavery and Civil War unit study. These books were so fantastic – in information, emotion and ability put us in the midst of the time period. I recommend each of them as living books! (I haven’t included…
Wow. We’re on our last planned history unit of the school year. It feels great to be ahead of schedule! (At least in history, anyway!) I’ve sketched out the main topics I hope to cover in a unit on slavery and the Civil War. I think we’ll plan to make this mostly a literature and…
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