Ruby Bridges has always been an interesting history figure to me. She was such a young girl when she made history and she managed to handle it with grace and class. Naturally, I wanted my children to learn about Ruby Bridges but I also like to share her story with my students. And that’s whyKeep Reading…
We’ve always been passionate about black history in our family. In fact, most of American music history includes accomplishments by amazing black musicians and artists. Which is why we try to teach our kids about black jazz musicians from an early age. And there’s no way to talk about early American jazz without discussing BillieKeep Reading…
My youngest son is obsessed with making things. He’s built a working fishing pole, a wobble racer, and even a 3-D paper basketball playset, complete with players who actually shoot the ball into the hoop. We’ve always encouraged our kids to learn about their history, so I thought it would be cool for him toKeep Reading…
We’ve been studying African kingdoms of the past with the kids and we’re thrilled to share what we learned with you! It’s fascinating (and tragic) to me that Africa is the largest of all the inhabited continents and yet it is largely overlooked in history programs for kids. In fact, I use the “What YourKeep Reading…
We’ve always been passionate about teaching our kids black history. There are so many wonderful stories, people, and events to share. And one of our very favorite periods to discuss is the Harlem Renaissance. So this year, we wanted to develop a Harlem Renaissance unit study we could cover with the kids to help them learnKeep Reading…
In our family, black history is history. We teach it along with every other topic. We’ve covered African history, civil rights, and even jazz history with our children over the years. But we’ve also enjoyed sharing African-American storybooks that help them “see” themselves in stories. As part of learning about history, we’ve read some wonderful blackKeep Reading…
My sixth grader has been showing more of an interest in black history lately, which is awesome because I love teaching it! We’re creeping up on the ’20s again, so I thought we’d go back and look at the 1920s during this homeschool year. The ’20s were pretty great for black history. There were some horrible thingsKeep Reading…
In our family, we don’t celebrate Black History Month. After all, we’re not just black in February. 🙂 Since black history is important, we talk about it year-round. But I wanted to share one of our recent homeschool unit studies with you all now, while more people are thinking about black history. The book The StoryKeep Reading…
As we started researching the history of African kingdoms, we found out so much about empires that we didn’t even know existed! Africa was home to many advanced civilizations that existed long before the modern Western world. In fact, some of the architectural accomplishments of these empires were so advanced that people didn’t evenKeep Reading…
In many places, children learn very little about ancient African civilizations in elementary school. But there’s so much to discover about African empires! One of the first (and wealthiest) was Ancient Nubia. Help children discover this civilization with this Ancient Nubia unit study for kids! Ancient Nubia is just one of the African empires we’ve studiedKeep Reading…
Studying African history has always been important in our family. Over the years, many schoolbooks have omitted or glossed over ancient African kingdoms and we wanted to make sure that our children learn the truth about these civilizations, no matter what. To start, we focused on the Ancient Egyptian civilization, which is world-famous as aKeep Reading…
