history crafts/activities

[RaeAnne]

Where do you find them once you've found your four-year cycle texts?

[Pam L in Mid Tenn]

My high schoolers no longer enjoy crafts and activites that go along with lessons. They had much rather read and discuss, or read and write about the lesson.

[Mama Lynx]

Where do you find them once you've found your four-year cycle texts?

WE keep doing the hits out of SOTW. My older kids still like to burn London, or make chicken mummies.

For modern history, there are several activity books such as "WWII For Kids," that have projects related to the time that aren't so "crafty."

I have boys, so building trebuchets or a model of an Enfield rifle (SOTW 4) or learning to identify WWII American and Japanese fighter planes (also SOTW 4) is always appealing.

[RaeAnne]

WE keep doing the hits out of SOTW. My older kids still like to burn London, or make chicken mummies.

This is encouraging. I was actually wondering about the appropriateness of SOTW for high schoolers, but I assumed it was a stupid question with an obvious answer. I'm glad I was wrong. :blushing: My little one will be in 1st when dn is in 9th, so I sure would like to combine as much as possible (and as is appropriate, but dn is on a different academic track right now, so I'm thinking it will work).

[Mama Lynx]

This is encouraging. I was actually wondering about the appropriateness of SOTW for high schoolers, but I assumed it was a stupid question with an obvious answer. I'm glad I was wrong. :blushing: My little one will be in 1st when dn is in 9th, so I sure would like to combine as much as possible (and as is appropriate, but dn is on a different academic track right now, so I'm thinking it will work).

I won't *make* any of my high schoolers do the activities, but they are usually right there when I start activities with the younger ones :)

[RaeAnne]

I won't *make* any of my high schoolers do the activities, but they are usually right there when I start activities with the younger ones :)

I'm more than fine with her not wanting to do activities, but I don't think she will let me get away with not providing them. :D

[melissaL]

my high school age boys make their own activities that tie loosely with History, just in their free time. they have made long bows, arrow heads out of bone etc. All their activities seem pretty dangerous to me, ans they are all working things, not models, not toys.