My husband asked me to pick The Dangerous Book For Boys up after thumbing through it at a local store. I did so today. What a gem! I was wondering how I might schedule some educational fun into our year and this will totally fit the bill! This book is all about staying away from cell phones, computers and electronic games. Every idea is an educational and engaging experience. Many are hands on; historical, scientific, literature, games, life skills, mathematics, grammar, first aid and character building topics are covered. Some activities are just plain fun. Here's a sampling of topics that sounded particularly interesting:
- Building a Treehouse
- Making a Bow and Arrow
- Spies - Codes and Ciphers
- Navaho Code Talker's Dictionary
- Marbling paper
- Famous Battles
- Mountains of the United States
- Making Cloth Fireproof
- Navigation
- Latin Phrases Every Boy Should Know
- A Brief History of Artillary
- Star Maps
- 7 Poems Every Boy Should Know
- Extraordinary Stories (Historical stories, heroes, etc...)
I'll give this resource two thumbs up. It's a great starting point for unit studies.
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