A school of fish

Do you know what a pontoon bridge is? I didn't before this unit, but as soon as I read about them (they are basically temporary float...

Artillery Guns! How we love them. In fact, Abraham chose to do his Final Project on Civil War Artillery. They are really quite fascinating...

While I was reading up on Abraham Lincoln for this unit, I kept thinking how overdone the whole Log Cabin thing is. Don't we know any...

I really like the paintings of Winslow Homer, so we took a day to learn about his life and study some of his art. My favorites are the ...

Who doesn't love a good code? We talked about communications in the army, and various codes and ciphers used by the Union and the Co...

My friend Andrea had a brilliant idea for demonstrating that knowing how to read gives us power (and for helping the children think abou...

I thought this was a great idea, from the book The Civil War for Kids . We drew out a large map of important landmarks near a battle (we...

We talked a lot about what daily life was like for a soldier, and one of the main things they did was DRILL! We watched this video show...