Be sure to add a visit to the National Archives and the Declaration of Independence (in person or online) to your homeschool Fourth of July calendar!
🏛 Homeschool Museums & Historical Monuments (Recent Posts)
On this green bank, by this soft stream,
We set to-day a votive stone;
That memory may their deed redeem,
When, like our sires, our sons are gone.
A collection of great homeschool teaching ideas, resources, and little lessons on museums and historical monuments from the River Houses Homeschool Network. Add your name to our free River Houses mailing list and get posts like these delivered right to your mailbox every week! 😊
📺 HISTORICAL DOCUMENTARIES for Your Homeschool Summer
Nine multi-part masterpieces of the documentarian’s art that you and your homeschool students can watch together and discuss over the summer.
🇺🇸 AMERICAN ICON: The Concord Minute Man
Teach your homeschool students to recognize one of the most famous artistic symbols of the American Revolution this week: Daniel Chester French’s “Minute Man.”
🇺🇸 SEVEN SCORE and Seventeen Years Ago
“What place is this? Where are we now?” (Marking the 157th anniversary of the Gettysburg Address, with help from Ken Burns and Carl Sandburg.)
⛏ NATURE NOTES: It’s National Fossil Day!
For National Fossil Day, why not explore a big collection of rare and beautiful books on paleontology made available by the Smithsonian Institution and the Biodiversity Heritage Library.
📜 🇺🇸 INDEPENDENCE DAY and the Declaration
Be sure to add a visit to the National Archives and the Declaration of Independence (in person or online) to your homeschool Fourth of July calendar!
💰 🇻🇮 AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL: Salt River Bay in the Virgin Islands
Explore American history and geography in your homeschool with this ongoing series of quarters from the U.S. Mint. (With free lesson plans!) New this month: a quarter for the Salt River Bay National Historical Park and Ecological Preserve in the U.S. Virgin Islands.
🗓 👩⚕️ HAPPY BIRTHDAY to the American Red Cross!
Happy birthday to the American Red Cross, one of the largest public service organizations in the United States, founded by Clara Barton on this day in 1881.
🇺🇸 AMERICAN ICON: The Concord Minute Man
Teach your students to recognize one of the most famous artistic symbols of the American Revolution: Daniel Chester French’s Concord Minute Man.
🌸 VISIT THE CHERRY BLOSSOMS in Washington, D.C.
On this day in 1912, the Japanese government presented a gift of 3000 cherry trees to the United States to line the banks of the Potomac River and other sites in Washington, D.C., where they and their successors may still be seen today.
