Archive for the ‘Maps’ Category

  • Lewis and Clark Websites for Homeschool History Units

    Friday, August 20th, 2010

    by Todd Durell Here are six websites worth checking out for unit studies covering Lewis and Clark’s expedition.  My personal favorites are the PBS and Library of Congress sites: Lewis and Clark: The National Bicentennial Exhibition is an interactive exhibition presented by the Missouri Historical Society.  The site has an impressive interactive map, articles about [...]

  • Homeschool History Resources: Historical Maps of Africa at Afriterra

    Thursday, June 17th, 2010

    by Todd Durell If you’re homeschooling and looking for an image of a historical map of Africa to use in a history or geography lesson, try searching the database at Afriterra.  A project of the Afriterra Foundation, the website contains more than 1000 high resolution images of maps of Africa.  The oldest map in the [...]

  • Free Outline Maps for Homeschool Islamic History Lessons (and Other World History Lessons, too)

    Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010

    by Todd Durell I was searching the web for a site offering free outline maps to use for our son’s homeschool Islamic history course and came across d-maps.com.  For example, they offer some very good outline maps of the Umayyad empire in the 8th century, as well as a couple of decent maps of the [...]