Maybe your child wants to go on a vacation? What about travel
through time?
Believe it or not, you can!
By studying history, you and your child get to discover the people and cultures from different parts of the world. Young learners also get a glimpse of how the world works back in the day and the events that shaped our society into what it is today.
For historian and Pulitzer Prize winner, Walter McDougall, studying history benefits learners in many ways.
Not only does it encourage intellectual growth. But an education in history also hones our children's civic and moral compass.
"History is the grandest vehicle for vicarious experience: it truly educates…young minds and obliges them to reason, wonder, and brood about the vastness, richness, and tragedy of the human condition," McDougall says.
But…
In a study commissioned by Common Core involving 1,200 17-year-olds in the United States, about 25% is don't know Adolf Hitler, while more than 50% can't place the Civil War in the correct half-century.
Clearly, we need to create more opportunities for our kids to learn more about history. And the following child-friendly websites can help.
Kids learn about the history of the world at Ducksters - from the ancient civilization, middle ages, to World Wars I and II plus many more.
This page on BBC made for UK audiences has been archived. Nevertheless, the contents are an excellent source of lessons, including British, England, Northern Ireland, and World histories.
This website by the KidsKnowIt Network includes an online textbook with 20 chapters, spanning from the advent of the prehistoric man, medieval Europe, to the French Revolution.
This Smithsonian website is packed with interactive history lessons and activities for K2 students to 12th graders. Check out the museum artifacts page to see what's inside the Smithsonian National Museum.
119 history lessons, 302 pieces of art, 526 videos, and 190 interesting bits of art info are on show in the Asian Art Museum.