Timelines
One of the things we do at homeschool that I love is our history lessons. Jennifer has done an amazing job of balancing the depth levels across our three kids’ ages while yet having them go through the same time period together.
To that end, as we begin a new era, she pulls out a lengthy roll of paper (picture someone rolling out a red carpet and you get the idea). Each child gets a marker and can put in the dates/events of importance. This allows our oldest to go in depth and focus on dates of battles (his interest) while my daughter can focus on inventions.
The other thing that comes out of this is the layering of what was going on around the world. Many books do this in their timelines now as well, but with our size paper roll, we can really play with this, so we can see what is going on in Roman times in Western Europe, North America, and China, for example, in one view.
Give it a try, it’s a low cost way to get your children working together yet at their own pace/depth.
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