Welcome to Bringing History Home
Since 2001, school districts have adopted Bringing History Home (BHH) to engage children in rigorous history explorations. BHH instructional units sequentially develop student skills and knowledge in history across the K-5 grade levels. Inspired by their students' learning, BHH teachers have become committed advocates for history education in elementary schools. Consequently, BHH is now the K-5 social studies centerpiece in seven Iowa school districts, and is in various stages of adoption by districts in at least four other states.
In addition to BHH lesson plans, on our website you will find bibliographies of selected children's history books, links to selected internet resources, and blogs on various history topics.
Bringing History Home has been funded by three U.S. Department of Education Teaching American History grants.
Much of the content on this site is in PDF format. You will need to have a PDF reader available to access PDF content. To download a free PDF reader, please visit www.adobe.com.
Recent News
Watch Bringing History Home in action!
If you've wondered what "doing history" might look like in the middle elementary grades, wonder no more. BHH
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K-5 History and Historians
It’s Elementary:
Focusing on History Teaching, K-5
Elise Fillpot
In the November issue of Perspectives, the
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Classroom Conversation
One of the courses I'm teaching this fall is First-Year Preceptorial - a class in which every first year student is
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