Mystery of History Textbooks: How We Use MOH Curriculum

Teaching homeschool world history in the comfort of your own home can be a rewarding and enriching experience for both you and your children. By taking on the role of educator, you have the opportunity to make world history come alive and captivate your children's interest. I will explore various strategies and techniques to make the study of world history engaging and enjoyable for your homeschooling journey.

When searching for a history curriculum, it is crucial to avoid settling for anything less than the best. Don't settle for options that are solely focused on being inexpensive, solely available online, or requiring minimal effort. It's important to consider more than just the required credits for high schoolers. Why question the necessity of all that additional content?

Take the plunge. Give it your all. Don't hold back. DO everything - include everything!

Embark on a historical journey from the very beginning of time and explore the passage of time with your children. Retrieve the maps and globes. In fact, hang them all over your home! Create a timeline - perhaps one that covers an entire wall. Explore the Old and New Testaments. Memorize your favorite passages. Explore ancient texts - go visit museums that have them on display! Discover fascinating artifacts at museums and explore them online. Discover the fascinating world of ancient languages, customs, and epic battles. Reenact these epic battles. Build dioramas.

History is often overlooked and poorly taught in the public education system. In fact, I can’t recall one thing I ever learned in history because it was so boring!! Homeschool parents, please avoid duplicating this boredom inducing area for your own kiddos. As part of the homeschool community, we home educating parents can offer a wide range of curriculum, books, videos, and supplements that surpass public textbooks in quality. I am being completely sincere. There is SO MUCH out there that you can offer to your kiddo and will have them running to the tables at history time and begging for you to not stop for the day! I remember the days when my son went to co-op when his siblings did not and I had strict instructions from him TO NOT DO history WITHOUT him!!

Put your emotions into teaching history. Seize every teachable and historical moment. Expand your knowledge by exploring unfamiliar subjects. Discover what you overlooked (or can’t remember because of sheer boredom) during your childhood.

History becomes incredibly captivating when one delves into its depths. It is truly fascinating, uplifting, and simply impressive. And we are all keenly aware of the consequences when a society is unaware of its history! Let us all teach our children better!

So, let's consider this: which world history curriculum will provide my children with the most comprehensive education on world history? What will help them perceive men, governments, and God in a new light? How can my children receive a history education that fosters the development of great leaders like Churchill, Jefferson, or Alfred the Great (oh, I adore Alfred the Great - he was a truly great man)?

Don't limit yourself to merely completing activities, do not just push papers - really, teach history!
Mystery of History will give you all that you need to let this happen.

How Mystery of History is Used

Throughout the years of homeschooling with MOH, my children were of varying ages and grade levels. Mystery of History is perfect for the mixed-age homeschooling at home! History takes up five days of the week (sometimes four days of the week) and consists of three reading lessons at the beginning of the week. In addition, the other days would be for other homework projects and activities. I have a homeschool schedule available for each volume if you would like further information.

The Mystery of History text and all of its supplements are excellent resources; you should consider your family's needs in light of the ages of your children while making your selection. We make good use of the Companion Guide's activities. However, I made my own timeline as the one that was for sale wasn’t jazzy enough for my children. When the kids were younger (in third and fourth grade), we used the coloring pages as an activity and supplement, and I made up my own lively and colorful notebooking pages to go along with them.

On top of that, I prefer to incorporate items that I have personally seen benefit my family. The beauty of homeschooling is the ability to personalize your child's education. I threw in every single thing: video classes, movies, recipes, art, crafts, and cuisine. Whenever I could think of a creative way to incorporate it, we did it! We traveled on field excursions (both inside and outside of state), read a lot of books, visited museums, and even had guest speakers at our house when I heard of parents or friends who could come and talk!

Bringing Joy to History

Honestly, history isn't interesting unless you yourself find it interesting. If you are bored, your children will be as well. MOH does not make history uninteresting! But, I also love to give MOH and teaching - remember we are teaching not pushing paper - a little more life with a range of supplements. Bringing history to life via cuisine, music, interactive activities, movies, videos, and, most importantly, captivating stories!

Let me be very honest though - we DO NOT do it all! Form the companion guide that is - that is simply pushing papers in my opinion. I carefully went through each volumes companion guides and selected the activities and supplements that would work the best for my family. You should do the same thing. If you kiddos do not like arts and crafts, they are not going to like doing those sorts of supplemental activities. My kiddos loves those activities. I have a mom friend who despised arts and crafts and wouldn’t even purchase her kids a bottle of glue. So, they came over to our house on art activity day so she could include those activities for her kids and not lose her mind! LOL!

Take a look at my comprehensive lesson plans and suggested extras in my curriculum store.

Volume 1: Creation to the Resurrection

Volume 2: The Early Church and the Middle Ages

Volume 3: The Renaissance, Reformation, and Growth of Nations

Volume 4: Wars of Independence to Modern Times (almost completed)