Four Tips for Making History Come Alive - Nicki Truesdell

Watch this full conversation on our YouTube channel.

Nicki Truesdell is a second-generation homeschooler and the author of Anyone Can Homeschool. Texas born and raised, she is mother to five children and a homemaker at heart, who loves books, freedom, history, and quilts. Nicki believes that homeschooling can be relaxed and that history is fun, and both can be done with minimal cost or stress, no matter your family’s circumstances. 

Topics discussed in the full three-part interview:

• Reading lays the foundation for language arts
• Simple copy work builds spelling and grammar skill on the foundation that reading lays
• Five steps to making History fun and relevant
• Using Historical Literature to make history come alive
• Making crafts to make history memorable
• Why teaching history chronologically is critical
• The importance of using primary sources when teaching history
• How to make homeschooling work with multiple age ranges