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Ready-to-pass-out kits include craft supplies and a teacher’s guide with learning objectives, assessments, booklists, instructions, coloring pages, and worksheets—making hands-on history easy for schools and co-ops. Select your class size, open, and teach…
In ancient Ghana, storytelling was an important tradition, and the griots, or storytellers, played a pivotal role in society. The art of storytelling is still practiced in modern times and…
Do you have any baskets in your home? Then you are part of a tradition dating back thousands of years. Basketmaking is one of the oldest crafts known to man,…
When French duke William the Conqueror invaded England and conquered Anglo-Saxon forces at the Battle of Hastings, it marked the end of Anglo-Saxon England. The Bayeux Tapestry tells the story…
Domesticated animals have been a part of human history for thousands of years, particularly dogs. Any child’s picture book of a farm will show cows, pigs, and sheep. These animals…
Play was an important part of life for the people of the Indus River civilization, both for children and for adults. Archaeologists have found clay figurines of cats, dogs, monkeys,…
For the most part, the Native peoples of California were hunter-gatherers. During the big acorn harvest, sometimes large groups of men and women would trek for several days to reach…
Ochre is a pigment that is found naturally in certain types of crumbly rock. It has been harvested and used in Australia for body decoration, cave art, and stenciling for…
Both children from indigenous tribes, such as Pocahontas, and children in the colony of Jamestown would have played with corn husk dolls. Corn husks were available after harvest and were…
Cuneiform was the first kind of writing in the world. Cuneiform was written with a wedge shaped stick called a stylus that was used to make triangle marks in a…