Our Story Interactive

 American History Stories and Activities You can do Together!

This website offers a variety of interesting information and activities for themes and/or time periods in history.

For example, right now they are featuring Great Women of Our Pasts. From the site:

March is Women’s History Month! Have you ever thought about the women who shaped your life today? The sacrifices they’ve made, the obstacles they overcame, or the memorable times in history they lived through? Explore the women in your family or community who have made an impact on who you are today.

There are suggested books such as Seven Brave Women by Betsy Hearne.It tells you about the books and gives you all the information you need to find it along with a reading guide. In fact, you can access a pdf for all the books recommended for this theme. With great information like this and a good children's librarian, you can easily find these books or substitutes.

There are two activities suggested for this theme as well. And pdf files that tell you exactly how to go about them if you need that extra help. The first one is Conduct a Genealogical Study and the second is Make Your Own Quilt Square.




Other themes include:

• Making the Star Spangled Banner
• A Puerto Rican Carnival
• Like in a WWII Japanese-American Internment Camp
• Slave Life and the Underground Railroad
• Pueblo Pots

Definitely a great site to bookmark and return to again and again!