History...addendum
Wednesday, June 23, 2010 at 10:00AM Three more quick thoughts on history...(read the previous post first if you haven't already)...
1. "Field trips" are also fabulous parts of our history curriculum. Now that Micah's getting older, we're trying to do more traveling and sight seeing, and the boys love it. Our recent Memorial Day weekend trip, for example, whilst also sporting science (inside the cave), had plenty of history to be discussed...who those faces on Mt. Rushmore were...how people did things back when the mountain was being created/sculpted...who lived in the Black Hills first...how those mammoths got preserved in Hot Springs...how people figure out stuff about really old things...LOL. See?
2. To be fair, I should mention that though *I* think covering history in order is awesome, Noah's not always so keen on the idea. Right now, he'd really most just like to cover the United States...particular the wars the United States has been involved in. The boy is alarmingly patriotic and a bit single-minded about it (yeah, you don't really want to watch the Olympics or similar things with him, lol...really not sure where this came from). This all just reinforces my thought that we should cover history in order, though. I think/hope it will ultimately help him put the United States in better perspective.
3. I do, though, let the boys watch a number of things on the history channel, so they are sometimes exposed to history out of order. ;) In particular, they love things about the machines of the first and second world wars. (Yes, this is probably where some of that patriotism stems from, lol. They especially love Dogfights.) Every so often, I also catch them watching stuff about dinosaurs or the Industrial Revolution. All sorts of good stuff. I particularly love "Modern Marvels"...a show that talks about all sorts of random things and, in doing so, traces their history and development.
Another subject soon... ;)
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