Social Studies

What is the best way to learn history? Travel with your kids! Check out this book, from Have Kids–Will Travel.

• Hands and Hearts — history curriculum
• The Virtual Museum (also contains science helps)
• The Peace Corps
• HyperHistory
• The History Channel
• History Central
• Truth Quest History
• Reach Every Child has a nice list of further history links.
• A Book in Time — a history book list
• Knowledge Quest — beautiful maps, time lines, history resources (excellent)
• Biblioplan for Families — chronological world history combined with literature and Bible study

Timeline Resources

• The Food Timeline (ever wonder what the Vikings ate when they set off to explore the New World?)
• More Timeline Resources; Also see Christian clipart here.
• The largest collection of clipart, photos and webart — great for making timelines
• Home School in the Woods — Excellent resources for historical timelines
• Time Lines, Etc. — Making history fun to learn, easy to remember
• AlternaTime — a collection of history timelines on the web
• How to Teach with Timelines

American History

• The diary of an 1800s family on the Kansas prairie (fun to read!)
• U.S. History & Geography Links
• Prairie Primer — great for fans of Laura Ingalls Wilder
• U.S. Presidents from Crayola
• Animated Atlas — free movies showing aspects of American history (and also, World War II)
• The Star Spangled Banner Project
• Order these free teaching materials from A&E Classroom

State History

• Studying state histories from a Christian perspective
• State Unit Studies
• Wikipedia’s entry to information on all 50 states

World History

• I highly recommend books by Ruth Beechick, especially World History Made Simple, Genesis:  Finding Our Roots, and Adam and His Kin.
• http://www.varchive.org — The writings of Immanuel Velikovsky, discussing biblical dating for ancient history.
• Ancient Rome – Free lesson plans and resources
• The Official “Anne Frank” historical site
• World History and Geography, by a Student’s Friend
• Inspired by her daughter’s love of paper dolls and her own love of history, Veronica Maria launched Paper Dali as a free resource for homeschooling parents. Paper Dali’s collection of free historical paper dolls makes history come alive for students. Paper Dalis can be used for: coloring pages, notebooking, lapbooks, fact sheets and, of course, just playing.

Geography

• Flat Travelers — a fun way to help your kids “travel” the world
• Get help teaching geography to your young children
• U.S. History & Geography Links
• Jayzee Bear USA Map Game — a fun tool to help your kids learn the locations of the states
• Theodora — an amazing site with links to maps from all over the world
• A Child’s Geography — Adventures around the globe for the inquisitive child (from a Christian perspective)
• World History and Geography, by a Student’s Friend