Tag: 19th century history

• Charles Darwin {1860-1870}

  

  The nineteenth century was a fascinating time for scientific theory and new discoveries, from Russian, Dmitri Mendeleev’s Periodic Table, (which arranged all the known elements according to their atomic weight), to Louis Pasteur’s discovery that microscopic organisms caused disease, exciting progress was being made in all areas of science.  Perhaps the most well known, not to mention […]

  Claire

  March 28, 2017

  History – Nineteenth Century, Homeschooling

  19th century history, Charles Darwin, home educating, Theory of Evolution

• Charles Dickens {Victorian Unit}

  

  This week our focus was on Charles Dickens and the Victorian poor.  Oh my, I had fun this week!  The children not so much, but I took huge delight in threatening to starve my children with a Poor Law diet….in fact, I ‘made’ them be poor Victorians for a day.  Yes, a day. The fuss […]

  Claire

  February 10, 2017

  History – Nineteenth Century, History – Victorians, Homeschooling

  19th century history, Charles Dickens, home education, home school, Victorian unit study