History

People and places across the world and across time.

By age: 0–2 · 3–5 · 6–8 · 9–12 · 13–17

Ages 0 to 2

A grown-up reads and plays along

• My family's story about 10 minutes
• Old things and new things about 10 minutes
• Grandparents' stories about 10 minutes

Ages 3 to 5

Read and do together

• When I was a baby about 10 minutes
• Helpers long ago about 10 minutes
• Houses long ago about 15 minutes
• Old and new about 10 minutes
• Farmers long ago and now about 15 minutes
• How people travelled about 15 minutes
• People who helped others about 15 minutes
• A family timeline about 20 minutes
• A child's day long ago about 15 minutes
• Things in a museum about 20 minutes
• Heroes in the Bible and in our town about 15 minutes
• Our flag and our holidays about 15 minutes

Ages 6 to 8

Read together, then try alone

• How writing began about 25 minutes
• The Nile and ancient Egypt about 25 minutes
• The first Christians about 25 minutes
• Trade routes: spices and ships about 25 minutes
• Mesopotamia and the wheel about 20 minutes
• Ancient Greece: city and country about 20 minutes
• Paul's journeys about 25 minutes
• Life in a medieval village about 20 minutes

Ages 9 to 12

Read alone or together

• Ideas from Greece and Rome about 35 minutes
• The House of Wisdom and the medieval world about 40 minutes
• The Philippines before and after 1521 about 40 minutes
• Printing and the Bible in many languages about 35 minutes
• The Reformation: print and Scripture about 30 minutes
• Aksum and the Ethiopian church about 30 minutes
• The Maya, Aztec and Inca about 35 minutes
• Sources and bias about 30 minutes

Ages 13 to 17

Read alone

• The Industrial Revolution and its costs about 55 minutes
• Empires ending: independence movements about 55 minutes
• Nonviolent movements: Gandhi, King and People Power about 55 minutes
• War, human dignity and memory about 60 minutes
• The early councils and the creeds about 45 minutes
• The Philippine Revolution and 1898 about 45 minutes
• The Atlantic slave trade and abolition about 45 minutes
• The Cold War about 45 minutes