History Activities

Free tutorials and printables resources for fun, hands-on history activities for kids. Includes areas such as ancient history and U.S. history.

Finding hands-on learning activities for older children can be very difficult. Here is a list of some of our favorites, inlcuding history and language arts.

Hands-on activities for studying world history are the best way for your kids to get a deeper understanding of the country all around us.

History is my passion; I love history! And yet, I really don't like textbooks. Here are 30+ ways to teach history without a textbook, from books to cooking, and more!

This ancient Mesopotamian cuneiform activity is a fun, hands-on history experience. Become ancient scribes writing on clay tablets with reeds.

Add a little pizzazz to your lessons with some United States History Activities that your students will love!

Very few middle school kids want to sit down and only read about history from a dry textbook. They want to get their hands dirty, build stuff, and really get a sense of what it was like to live during the time periods they’re studying. Don't make history boring - use hands-on projects and activities to make history fun. A week of fun and interactive ideas for middle school history.

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Are you looking for an engaging back to school activity for your students? Start the year off right with this no-prep history lesson that will get your students excited about world history. In addition to the discussion slides and teacher notes, you will receive a few lesson ideas, reinforcement activity, and a quiz template for additional assessment. And all of the files are editable! #FirstDayofSchool #BacktoSchool #WorldHistory #History #ClassroomActivities #MiddleSchool #HighSchool

We use a world explorers game for two players to learn about world explorers and the ways they were similar and different in their quests.