Holiday Time is History Time
The upcoming holiday weekend is a wonderful time for families to spend time together and celebrate their traditions.
It is also a great time for parents and family members to teach children not only their history, but the history of other cultures and groups as well. What we learn in history is not only important in school, but it can also help students apply those lessons into current world events and everyday life.
Here are some helpful tips, tricks and activities for any child to learn and absorb history:
1) Make It Real: Bringing a historical event into the real world, can help connect the event with the real world. Some ideas include: visiting a historical site, taking a trip to a museum and listening to a speech from someone who was first hand involved with the event.
2) Connect Your Ideas: Following a chronological order with your ideas and notes is helpful to ensure facts link together. If you are able to group your chronological notes by topic, but can be even more helpful. If there are multiple topics, many people find mind maps helpful to gather and summarize all your connecting ideas into one picture that illustrates how connecting items fit together.
3) Flashcards: Learning History can often involve remembering key dates and events. Utilizing flashcards on a repeated basis can be an excellent tool to test your retention of these facts. With educational technology flashcards no longer need to be on paper. Cram, Quizlet and Studyblue are three recommend flashcard and study apps.
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