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Help your child learn history with some simple tips. You can do these at home to help a child learn history dates, people and events in a fun manner.



Children can learn to love history. Much of their abhorrence of history comes from memorizing lists of dates and people that have no meaning to them. As parents we can help give those dates and names meaning.

Make up a set of memory cards. If you use three cards for each person, one with the name, another with birth and death dates and a third with the event(s) that thrust them in to the history books your child will rapidly learn to associate names, dates and events while having fun.

The upper elementary grades are a perfect time to teach students about the ancient world, and a two-week “intersession” (or similar block of time) provides a great opportunity to make students appreciate and understand about the Seven Ancient Wonders of the World. Indeed, a ten-class session provides ample teaching time to adequately introduce and then explore this intriguing topic.


The first class session should be devoted to providing an overview of the entire topic of the Wonders of the World. Addressing the question of “What is a ‘Wonder?” and introducing and briefly explaining each of them individually is essential first-order business. Have a classroom wall map of the world handy to pull down and identify where each of the wonders is (or was) located. Place a “sticky-note” in each located area so that students can eventually compare distance between them in a later activity. (You’ll want to provide photocopied world maps to the students so that they can chart the locations as you identify them.)Use the site markers also to formulate an exercise with the scale of miles to figure out which Wonder site is closest and which one is the farthest away from the United States.