Cylinder Seals {Mesopotamia Unit Study}

Cylinder seals are one of the most fascinating artefacts to come out of Mesopotamia. In fact, Mesopotamia is known for these small, cylindrical stamps, which are considered to be its unparalleled artistic accomplishment. Read more: This lesson on Mesopotamian stamp seals gives you lots of information about the cylinder seal's earlier cousin Also, do check…

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Events Leading Up To The Battle of Hastings 1066

This lesson, which covers the events leading to the Battle of Hastings, is fun and thorough. Oh, and it involves dressing up as Knights! I hated history in school, apart from Henry VIII.  He fascinated me.  The rest however was plain boring.  In particular I hated learning about wars and battles.  A list of dates…

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Edwardian Unit Study: Resources {1900-1910}

In September we began our study into the twentieth century. Beginning with the first decade, I planned many activities around the literature written during that time period, key events/people such as the suffragettes, key inventions such as the Brownie camera and the Wright brothers' flying machine, and the artists around at the time. The following…

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How to Make Bronze Age Artefacts for Imaginative Play and Learning

This is going to be a post outlining how we made our own Bronze Age Artefacts and will be mainly pictures with a few annotations.  We have been learning about Tubal-Cain and Jubal in our Mystery of History lessons.  They are only mentioned once in the Bible: His brother's name was Jubal; he was the…

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