This post is part of my 10 Ways to Teach Prehistoric and Ancient History series, which is part of 10 Days of Tips for Homeschoolers, hosted by Living Life and Learning.
We, as a family, love traveling (see many of the places we’ve been with our kids over the years). And we love museums. Especially science and history museums. Which is why whenever we travel some place new, those types of places are at the top of our to-do list.
But we also love visiting high-quality local museums and, with the size of our family, we often end up saving by getting annual passes that allow us unlimited to access to nearby adventures.
I’ll admit, though, it takes something special to get me to give up our usual morning school schedule for a museum day. So any time I can work a museum visit in with our current school subjects, it’s a big yes for me!
There are so many ways to incorporate museum and historical site visits into your homeschool history program.
Sometimes it means waiting for special exhibits to come to our local museums, like the time a traveling Egyptian Mummy exhibit passed through a local science center right when we were covering Ancient Egypt in our history program (what has now become Big Ideas through History).
And sometimes that means adapting our learning to what’s available. Like when we spent a weeks-long trip to Colorado visiting so many of the pioneer and history museums, right after we finished listening to the Little House on the Prairie series (if you haven’t tried the audiobooks version, we all really enjoyed them and listened to the last 7 books in the series after reading the first two together).
Yet, other times it means just taking a day to explore what’s in our backyard like when we first moved to New Jersey and weren’t really doing school but decided to visit Historic Fort Lee, overlooking the Hudson River and got to see where George Washington’s army was based for a time and learn about our new home.
Then other times, you have to take opportunities as they come up and create learning opportunities. Like when replicas of Columbus’ ships happen to be in a nearby harbor. You go visit and then follow up with historical information after.
Big Ideas through History has been a huge undertaking, and as such, it’s a work in progress.
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