Homeschool activities
Homeschool history activities, Pre-K to Grade 8
History at home starts with your own family. Ask a grown-up what it was like, put your day in order, compare then and now, read two front pages of one event, curate a museum on one shelf and seal a time capsule.
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- Ask a grown-up: A real interview with someone who was small long ago. (Grades 1–2 and 3–4)
- Before the headline: Coming first is not the same as causing, checked card by card. (Grade 1–2 to Grade 5–6)
- Build it like they did: Build what people long ago built, then test it. (Grades 3–4 and 5–6)
- Detective of the past: Look closely first, then say how you know. (Grade 3–4 to Grade 7–8)
- Every year: The year as a wheel, with your family's days on it. (Pre-K to Grade 1–2)
- Family tree of names: The people before your child, in order, by name. (Kindergarten to Grade 1–2)
- My day in order: First, next and last, in the shape of their own day. (Pre-K to Kindergarten)
- Older or newer?: Tell older from newer by the clues, not a guess. (Grade 1–2 to Grade 5–6)
- One event, two front pages: Tell a point of view from something made up. (Grade 1–2 to Grade 7–8)
- The one-shelf museum: A museum on one real shelf, and a visitor who learns from it. (Pre-K to Grade 5–6)
- Then and now: Some things change, some stay, and there is a reason. (Grades 1–2 and 3–4)
- Time capsule: A box for next year, and proof of what changed. (Pre-K to Grade 5–6)
- Timeline of everything: A line of time with your child in the middle of it. (Grade 3–4)
- Walk in their shoes: Stand where someone long ago stood, with what they knew. (Grades 5–6 and 7–8)
- What happened next?: Coming after is not the same as caused by, checked card by card. (Grades 5–6 and 7–8)
- When I was little: Your child's own life, in a line from baby to now. (Kindergarten to Grade 1–2)