History

History classes don’t revolve around lectures and reading at The Curiosity Crew. We bring the subject to life with simulations, games, cooking, and a passionate educator.

Mapmakers making a honey mead to conclude the medieval studies unit

Mapmakers making a honey mead to conclude the medieval studies unit

Mapmakers made cave drawing as part of their prehistory unit.

Mapmakers made cave drawing as part of their prehistory unit.

Navigators "paying taxes" as part of learning about the causes of the French Revolutions.

Navigators "paying taxes" as part of learning about the causes of the French Revolutions.

Navigators making crepes at the conclusion of their French Revolution unit.

Navigators making crepes at the conclusion of their French Revolution unit.

Navigator capstone projects on the American or French Revolution.

Navigator capstone projects on the American or French Revolution.

Mapmakers working on Ancient Egyptian model house projects.

Mapmakers working on Ancient Egyptian model house projects.

Mapmakers exploring Mesopotamian civilization.

Mapmakers exploring Mesopotamian civilization.

Navigators starting a mask project as part of their unit on the Mexican Revolution.

Navigators starting a mask project as part of their unit on the Mexican Revolution.

2024 - 2025 Topics & Themes

    • Adventures in Ancient History

      • Fall Trimester: Beginning of Ancient Civilizations and Cave Paintings, Ancient Egypt, and Sumer

      • Winter Trimester: Mesopotamia, Greece, and Rome

    • Revolutions! That Changed the World

      • Fall: American, French and Haitian Revolutions

      • Winter: Latin American revolutions, slave revolts in the Americas, and the cataclysmic wars of the 17th and 18th centuries.  We will look at this age of globalism from many different perspectives: the rulers, their subjects, women, the enslaved, pirates and privateers, children, Native Americans, and revolutionaries.