Where do you look for ideas to supplement history?

[Handsomesmomma]

I have some great books for next year, but, am searching (unsuccessfully) for ideas to expand upon the lessons. We are going to be working on early America, the Age of Discovery, the Colonial period and Native Americans, plus a few other things.

If anyone has anything to share I would GREATLY appreciate it

Ann-Marie

[MissRubyandKen]

These are some links I've bookmarked. Some I've looked at thoroughly, a few I haven't. I really like this one. More-

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[elizawill]

for those time periods, i would use the guest hollow curriculum & recommendations. it's free.

http://www.guesthollow.com/homeschoo...canonline.html

ETA - redshift is also good.

http://www.redshift.com/~bonajo/history.htm

[LauraLoo]

You may want to check out The History Channel:

http://www.history.com/topics

They've recently released a dvd, "America The Story of Us," which aired on the history channel not too long ago.

http://shop.history.com/?v=history_s...pa=PRF-2102447

[zjande]

We supplement with the Story of the World activity guides, The History Channel online (which can be awesome!), Wikipedia, & various other book lists I've come across & copied. But those first 3 are the ones I rely the most on.

[lach]

Check out Dover Publishing. They have really great historical coloring books and other activity books. They're pretty sophisticated too, so in my experience even kids in the older elementary/middle school grades who think that they're past coloring books really enjoy them.

It's not theme-specific, but if you haven't checked out the offerings of Carus Publishing I can't recommend them enough. They publish fiction and non-fiction magazine for kids from preschool through high school. They're really well done, and in my experience kids really enjoy receiving them. Since it's a monthly magazine, you can't really choose what you get when you subscribe, but you can buy back issues. For example, here's one about Pilgrims, one about the colony of New Netherlands, one about the Jamestown, one about the French and Indian War, and so on. Calliope is their world history magazine, and you can see back issues here.

[staceyshoe]

[QUOTE=elizawill;15507354]for those time periods, i would use the guest hollow curriculum & recommendations. it's free.

http://www.guesthollow.com/homeschoo...canonline.html

We are using this and love it!

[simple living mama]

Im all about reading from well written historical fiction like the Newbery Award winning fictional books. They are just fantastic for learning history. How old are your kids?