Monthly Archives: November 2016
HISTORY CHALLENGE: HISTORIC MODES OF TRANSPORT
Today’s travellers can be transported across the world in under twenty-four hours, but it wasn’t always like that. After your kids have made their list of historic travellers, get them to compile one for how those people travelled. And how long each method took. http://inventors.about.com/od/timelines/fl/The-History-of-Transportation.htm
HISTORY CHALLENGE: HISTORIC TRAVEL WRITERS
When modern kids think of a travel writer, the name Rick Steves is probably the first that comes to mind, but people have been travelling, and writing about it, for centuries. Many, many centuries. It didn’t just start with Marco Polo, who may, or may not, have visited the places he said he did. Fan […]
MONTH NAME ORIGIN: NOVEMBER
November was yet another numeric month, getting its name from novem, the Latin word for nine. The Roman emperor Tiberius was born in November but apparently wasn’t as egotistical as certain other emperors, so when it was suggested that what was now the eleventh month should be named after him, he refused, and November went […]
Time Travelling With Kids 