History Activities

Quizzes from the 20th CenturyFrom the Industrial Revolution to the rise of the World Wide Web, take a look back at the 20th Century with these quizzes.1900-1909 Turn the clock back to the start of the century. What do you know about the men, wome...

Historical ReporterFor: Kids 10 - 14Required: Reference sources. Ask your child to research an historical event (or begin with one he or she has been studying in school). Then, assign your junior journalist a news story, based on the happening. T...

Historical ToursFor: Kids 8 to 12 Anybody can study history. But it takes an enterprising young historian, like your child, to give scholarly driving tours of your hometown -- the way it looked years and years in the past. There are two variatio...

Meet Historical FiguresFor: Kids 10-14 Required: Reference sources. Ask your kids the same question, then see if they can collect enough research to piece together a bio. Offer some standard questions to "ask" during the time travel, such as: How...

Changing History For: Kids 9 and upRequired: Just your time. Perhaps your young negotiators would have found a way for the colonists and the British to resolve their differences without warfare -- and now they can tell you how they would have acc...