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Teach History the Fun Way!
We love history in our house! We love the stories, people, places, art, music, fashion, food, and ideas. Here are some different ways we can enjoy learning about history. Living Books Living books take us to other times and places Timelines Place people, events, books, inventions on a timeline Cookbooks Time travel in the kitchen with foods eaten long ago Act it Out Radio shows, dramas, skits, monlogues Dress Up Wear clothing from times past Explore Music & Art Listening to music, dancing, looking at art, creating art |
Do you want to have more fun when you teach history?
In our house, we love to cook and bake to learn history. We time travel right in the kitchen. Here is our Time Travel in the Kitchen: American History Cookbook. We used it in our home and in our American history co-op. Everyone loved it! Each family took a week to make a meal from Colonial Times, The Alamo, The Transcontinental Railroad, The Gilded Age, or World War II--whatever we were studying. Some of the recipes are adapted from original recipes from old history cookbooks and famous recipe collections. I adapted Louisa May Alcott's Blueberry Slump, Thomas Jefferson's Monticello Noodles, and Martha Washington's Fruit Cake. I think you will have a blast cooking and eating your way through time! Here are some of the recipes we enjoy! You can make them in your kitchen and travel back in time. There are over 300 recipes in this cookbook!
Each section begins with a little history lesson on important events and people along with information about foods and eating habits of the time period. Also included in this great cookbook are resources after each section of recipes. These resources include living books & historical fiction to write, movies you can watch, and sample menus using the cookbook. Here are the sections in this cookbook:
Purchase the Print Book, American History Cookbook, on Amazon. You can purchase the e-book at PayHip or Currclick. Series: Teach History the Fun Way Author: Meredith Curtis Publisher: Powerline Productions Paperback: 407 pages Age/Grade: Elementary & Middle & High School & Parents |
Timelines add adventure and fun to learning about history! In our home, we love making and using timelines to give everyone in the family a bird's eye view of whatever time period we are studying. Timelines just put all the people, events, discoveries, and works in perspective--especially for our big-picture people!
Picture your family gathered around the timeline--gluing on the beautiful timeline figures to their timeline pages. First, they read about the timeline figure and grab the date so they know where to place the timeline figure. Once the glue dries and the timeline is completed, it becomes a resource to use in years ahead. This is the timeline we use for the twentieth century. We like to do our timeline first and then read the chapters in the book related to our timeline figures. Of course, we find ourselves going back over and over again to the completed timeline as we study the new information. Bright and colorful, these timeline figures are beautiful. From movies and sports to poilitical events and wars, there is a nice variety to bring any study of the twentieth century to life. We hope you will enjoy our timeline and timeline figures as much as we have. You can purchase the print version of HIS Story of the 20th Century at Amazon. You can purchase the e-book at PayHip or Currclick. Series: Teach History the Fun Way Authors: Meredith Curtis & Laura Nolette Publisher: Powerline Productions Paperback: 130 pages Age/Grade: Elementary & Middle School & High School
Building with Lincoln Logs created by John Lloyd Wright, son of famous architect Frank Lloyd Wright.
Dressing up as a WWI nurse.
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Let's go on a grand adventure!
Come along with our family and visit one of the most exciting and educational cities in the world. Are you ready for fun, action, and travel? Would you like to take a trip with my daughters and me to the exciting city of London? Well, get your passports ready, make your hotel reservations, get your plane ticket, and let’s go! Welcome to Travel to London Unit Study! We will have a blast learning about kings, queens, historical events, lovely gardens, famous people, heroic Christians, beautiful castles, and amazing museums. You and your children will have so much fun that you won't even realize you're learning. You wil see and meet Wiliam of Normandy’s Tower of London, Christopher Wren's, King Alfred, Edward the Confessor’s Westminster Abbey, Wesleys, Winston Churchill, Purcell, Prime Ministers, Kings, Queens, Sad Stories from the Tower, Kew Gardens, Palaces, Parliament, Magna Charta, British Nursery Rhymes, Banking, Exchange Rates, Climate, Maps, Timelines, Songs, Writing Projects. Your family will have a blast as we.... Create our own crown jewels Exchange money Make our own passports Find a hotel Make plane reservations Pack Design our own palace Make Trick Tourist Photos Host a Small Group Like John & Charles Wesley Write a Hymn Write a Nursery Rhyme Write a Sense Poem Write a Diary of a King or Queen Write a Museum Exhibit Report Make & Illustrate a Timeline Outline Map of Great Britain Your family will cook, bake, and enjoy.... Scones & Clotted Cream Pot of Tea Tea Sandwiches Lemon Squares Billingsgate Fish & Chips Hampton Court Berry Trifle Curds & Whey Tower of London Meat Pie Sally Lunn Bread Toad in a Hole Ploughman's Lunch Welsh Rarebit Fruit Crumble Bread Pudding You will need to purchase the following books. DK Eyewitness Travel: London & Pull-out Map by Michael Leapman A Book set in London or England to read aloud, a chapter each day—list of possibilities included! Purchase the Print Book, Travel to London Unit Study, on Amazon. Purchase the E-book, Travel to London Unit Study, on PayHip or Currclick. Series: Teach History the Fun Way Authors: Meredith Curtis Publisher: Powerline Productions Paperback: 210 pages Age/Grade: Elementary & Middle School |
Travel the world to learn geography!
Are you looking for an easier way to teach children to research? Are you interested in learning about another country? Powerline Productions is excited to share with you this fun research tool in a handy-dandy lapbook. Enjoy this special research lapbook that can be used for any country in the whole world with the entire family. Here’s how it works:
You have a keepsake to treasure forever. Step-by-step instructions are given so that you can put together each booklet and the lapbook itself. This is much more fun that a typical country report. You can purchase the print version of Travel the World Country Report Lapbook at Amazon. You can purchase the e-book at Currclick. Series: Teach History the Fun Way Authors: Meredith Curtis & Laura Nolette Publisher: Powerline Productions Paperback: 74 pages Age/Grade: Elementary & Middle School & High School 
Painting a World Map on the bathroom wall.
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COMING SOON!
You can purchase the print version of American History Timeline at Amazon. You can purchase the e-book at PayHip or Currclick. Series: Teach History the Fun Way Authors: Meredith Curtis & Laura Nolette Publisher: Powerline Productions Paperback: 150 pages Age/Grade: Elementary & Middle School & High School
Panning for Gold.
Dressed up as John & Charles Wesley, missionaries to Colonial America.
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COMING SOON!
You can purchase the print version of Let's Have Our Own Passover Feast at Amazon. You can purchase the e-book at PowerlineProd or Currclick. 
Seder Plate at our Passover Feast.
Dipping our fingers in the salt water to drop on plate, remembering the tears of the Israelite slaves.
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