History activities

History STEM activities and challenges for the classroom ensure students have a hands-on way to learn history material of the world.

Finding hands-on learning activities for older children can be very difficult. Here is a list of some of our favorites, inlcuding history and language arts.

Help your kids understand the World Wars with these hands on activities and projects. Perfect for homeschool history, supplemental history, field trips or electives. Includes free printables!

Using this educational game, dedicated to social history and women’s history, children will learn about twenty amazing women who changed the world.

We like to play board games in our homeschool and it can be hard to find history games that aren’t expensive. Enter history file folder games from Homeschool in the Woods, they’re awesome. Find out how to use history file folder games in your history lessons.

Reading about the explorers to America and doing hands-on activities helps us too explore. This time, we're exploring the explorers!

Free tutorials and printables resources for fun, hands-on history activities for kids. Includes areas such as ancient history and U.S. history.

Games have been a big part of our family long before we even considered homeschooling. Games are an excellent way to spend quality time together as a family. “Gameschooling” is something that I did not find valuable to our homeschool in the beginning. I found games valuable to our family culture but not to academics....

Body biography projects, collaborative learning, novel studies, middle school ELA, high school English

Print out famous people's heads and use for a biography report. Love this writing idea for third and fourth grade.

How to bring history alive for kids - have fun teaching history by adding more hands-on activities for kids like crafts, songs and field trips.

History is my passion; I love history! And yet, I really don't like textbooks. Here are 30+ ways to teach history without a textbook, from books to cooking, and more!

As a kid in school I loved when my teachers celebrated creativity in the classroom. In fact, when I reflect on my own education, the moment...

Finish out your history class with a bang with these creative end of the year games! They are a fun way to review history for kids, and many would work for a literature class as well. They are easily adapted for different age groups by requiring different levels of detail and complexity in their responses.…

Discover the ultimate timeline activity for teaching history in a fun and interactive way! This activity improves critical thinking and retention of key events. Find out why this is a must-try for any history teacher. It's engaging and fun and it works!

Mi amiga tiene clase de historia lunes y miércoles a las ocho y veinte de la mañana

The Odyessey, the story of a hero's journey that can be difficult to teach! Find fun ways to teach The Odyssey while allowing your students to work colaboratively!

Using the process of elimination and asking Yes/No questions about what your partner's explorer did and where he explored, can you figure out the identity of the explorer before your partner figures out who you are? Fun game for reviewing 20 different explorers.

Add a little pizzazz to your lessons with some United States History Activities that your students will love!