What is the best way to learn history? Travel with your kids! Check out this book, from Have Kids–Will Travel.
- Hands and Hearts — history curriculum
- The Virtual Museum (also contains science helps)
- The Peace Corps
- HyperHistory
- The History Channel
- History Central
- Truth Quest History
- Reach Every Child has a nice list of further history links.
- A Book in Time — a history book list
- Knowledge Quest — beautiful maps, time lines, history resources (excellent)
- Biblioplan for Families — chronological world history combined with literature and Bible study
Timeline Resources
- The Food Timeline (ever wonder what the Vikings ate when they set off to explore the New World?)
- More Timeline Resources; Also see Christian clipart here.
- The largest collection of clipart, photos and webart — great for making timelines
- Home School in the Woods — Excellent resources for historical timelines
- Time Lines, Etc. — Making history fun to learn, easy to remember
- AlternaTime — a collection of history timelines on the web
- How to Teach with Timelines
American History
- The diary of an 1800s family on the Kansas prairie (fun to read!)
- U.S. History & Geography Links
- Prairie Primer — great for fans of Laura Ingalls Wilder
- U.S. Presidents from Crayola
- Animated Atlas — free movies showing aspects of American history (and also, World War II)
- The Star Spangled Banner Project
- Order these free teaching materials from A&E Classroom
State History
- Studying state histories from a Christian perspective
- State Unit Studies
- Wikipedia’s entry to information on all 50 states
World History
- I highly recommend books by Ruth Beechick, especially World History Made Simple, Genesis: Finding Our Roots, and Adam and His Kin.
- http://www.varchive.org — The writings of Immanuel Velikovsky, discussing biblical dating for ancient history.
- Ancient Rome – Free lesson plans and resources
- The Official “Anne Frank” historical site
- World History and Geography, by a Student’s Friend
- Inspired by her daughter’s love of paper dolls and her own love of history, Veronica Maria launched Paper Dali as a free resource for homeschooling parents. Paper Dali’s collection of free historical paper dolls makes history come alive for students. Paper Dalis can be used for: coloring pages, notebooking, lapbooks, fact sheets and, of course, just playing.
Geography
- Flat Travelers — a fun way to help your kids “travel” the world
- Get help teaching geography to your young children
- U.S. History & Geography Links
- Jayzee Bear USA Map Game — a fun tool to help your kids learn the locations of the states
- Theodora — an amazing site with links to maps from all over the world
- A Child’s Geography — Adventures around the globe for the inquisitive child (from a Christian perspective)
- World History and Geography, by a Student’s Friend
