Zap History Boredom – 8 Ways to Captivate Your Kids
Make history come alive for children. Learn about eight different ways to captivate your children while studying the past: from costumes and puppet shows to interviewing historic people.
Make history come alive for children. Learn about eight different ways to captivate your children while studying the past: from costumes and puppet shows to interviewing historic people.
It was the Great Depression in rural Minnesota. From her small cabin with no utilities, Martha Linsley, a certified teacher, fought school district administrators for the right to home-school her two children. Defending her gifted son, who would eventually be nominated for a Nobel Physics Prize, she was threatened with fines – and even jail time.
In her 80s, Martha Linsley bought a small typewriter from Montgomery Ward, taught herself to type, and transcribed the hundreds of letters she and her husband and their two children wrote to one another.
Art appreciation (or the study of art history) need not be difficult. You don’t need a fancy curriculum or a complicated plan.