A r c h i v e d  I n f o r m a t i o n

U.S. Department of Education
Office of Educational Research and Improvement

Helping Your Child Learn History

Table of Contents

• Introduction
• History Education Begins at Home
  • Children and History
  • Parents Make a Difference
  • History Is a Habit
  • Enjoying Your Child and History
• The Basics of History
  • The Meanings of History
  • A New Look at History
  • Asking Questions
• Activities: History as Story
  • What's the Story?
  • Our Town
  • History on the Go
  • What's News?
  • History Lives
  • Cooking Up History
  • Rub Against History
• Activities: History as Time
  • Time Marches On
  • Weave a Web
  • Put Time in a Bottle
  • Quill Pens & Berry Ink
  • School Days
  • Time To Celebrate
  • The Past Anew
• Appendices
  • Parents and the Schools
  • Resources
  • Local and National Resources
  • Acknowledgments
  • What we can do to help our children learn

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