A school of fish

When she heard we were learning about World War II, one of our neighbors volunteered to tell us about her father and father-in-law's ...

We did a whole unit on Nuclear Energy a few years ago. It was one of our favorite units! You can find all the posts about that unit aggreg...

Image from wikipedia Innovations used on D-Day Why was it called "D-Day" ? Scenes from D-Day, then and now More "be...

We talked about the Holocaust  very briefly  a long time ago, but as the children are older now, we covered it in a lot more depth this ti...

I read a lot of books which talked about the evacuation of children from England during the war. ( The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe , f...

(click top or bottom section to enlarge) I feel like World War II consumed so much of our year, although the unit itself took only a c...

After we learned about Ancient and Feudal Japan , it was on to Pearl Harbor and Japan's role in World War II. We happen to live a few...

If you are going to visit the Topaz Internment Camp , it's definitely worth a stop at the new Topaz Museum in Delta first. We though...

I really liked the idea of tying the story of the "Candy Bomber" (or the "Chocolate Pilot," as he was also called) ...