History Projects

I have run across an awesome website that sells "unit study" type curriculiums for History. This one is the "Time Travelers" Study. The boys will be learning how to survive at sea, make a boat, make maps, make flags, tie knots and lots of other cool stuff. So far they are loving it and I'm having a blast with it.

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Here's some pictures of some of the things we've done so far.

Lesson 1: What is an explorer and why do they want to find new lands? One of the main reasons was spices. After studing the 5 main reasons for going exploring, I showed the kids how to make "Spice Cookies". They now know why spices were such an important discovery.

Rolling out the cookie dough before chilling it. After it chilled for a couple of hours, they boys cut the cookies and baked them. I forgot to take pictures of the finished products. They were very tasty.

Lesson 2: Thing Sailors took with them on their voyages. In this lesson, they learned the importance of "non spoiling" food and water. I showed them how to dry fruits and veggies and meat. While they didnt' think it would be very good, they realized it was a lot better then eating rotten food and getting sick.

In this lesson they also learned a few different ways to tie knots and the importance of them.

Both of the boys mastered the first knot pretty well. "The Stopper Knot".

Knot #2 was a bit harder. The "Bolin" knot. Zion finally figured it out, but Riah abandoned it after several tries. We still have to work on his knot tying before he can go on. Hopefully it won't take him too much longer.

"I did it!!"