Helping Your Child - Learn History

This booklet is a tool you can use to stimulate your children's active involvement in the history that surrounds them every day. It includes:

* Basic information about history, and approaches to enjoying history with your children, aged 4-11;
* History activities that you and your children can do--at home, in your community, and out of town--for no or little cost; and
* History resources in your community and nationally, in bookstores, and libraries.

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