Talking about holidays allows children learn about history in their every day lives.

Use this chart to help organize information before writing a book report. Describe the setting, characters, conflicts, and more.

Use this chart to help get started on a paper.

Making personal timelines can help children understand that the stories of history have beginnings, middles, and ends.

How you can use games and activities to reinforce what your children are learning in history class.

Help your children practice their story telling skills.

A good way to introduce children to history is to let them know how school—a main focus of their lives—has changed over the years.

A good place for children to begin to develop an interest in history is to find out the history of where they live.

Use these activities to make TV watching an educational experience.

Use these questions and activities to teach your children about historical heroes.

A great way for young children to develop an interest in history is for parents to make books with history themes a part of their reading-aloud routin

Use this activity to show your children that they have a place in history.

This activity allows children to connect historical events.

Making rubbings of coins or historical plaques is great fun for kids.

Directions for creating a personal time capsule.

Suggestions on how to enhance your visit to a living history museum.

Discussing the news is a way to help children gain a historical perspective on the events of the present.

Visiting the historical places that children read about in their history books reinforces for them that history is about real people and places.