It’s review season, and that means teachers are getting ready for days and days and days of test prep. It’s not the most fun, by […]
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Teaching Ancient Egypt (Part 3)
Teaching Ancient Egypt (Part 3) So in Part 1 we covered geography, pharaohs, pyramids and the Nile. Part 2 was all about the mummies. In […]
Teaching Ancient Egypt (Part 2)
Mummies So at this point your kiddos should be familiar with Ancient Egypt. If not, I covered in Part 1 how to introduce it and […]
Dig in to Science
Learning with poop? Yep. Learning with poop. (not real poop. I promise) So after reading Hope and Wade King’s book The Wild Card, I remember reading/seeing […]
Ancient (or Near-Ancient) Civilizations
We’re about to head into my favorite 3rd grade social studies unit: ancient civilizations. (Well, four of them are ancient, one is medieval). Let me […]