Making History FUN!

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Thanks to Susan Wise Bauer’s The Story of the World sets for children, history studies are like playtime for my children!  Some days, however, I find I don’t always have the time to get to the library and obtain Bauer’s “supplementary readings” (to go with each lesson) or do all the lesson activities the way I would like to.  But without additional readings or activities, children too easily forget what was learned during history lessons.  What to do?  Here is one solution:

Last year, I started assigning the children their own “personal reading assignments” that corresponded to our current history topic.  A favorite resource for these assignments were the Magic Tree House series guides.  Even for students whose reading levels have surpassed the Magic TreeHouse series, these guides make history fun!

I also let them look at some educational web sites with interactive history activities which also helped history come alive for my children and got me “off the hook” for not making it to the library like I want to!

What other resources could I be using to help reinforce our history lessons???  Please post and let me know!

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