Teaching a Toddler
Teaching a 3 year old history? Yes! Guess what? You can start introducing the concept of history even to toddlers by helping them learn and begin to conceptualize the passage of time itself. This article includes ten amazing ideas to start teaching history at home even to toddler-age children. To begin, we start young children off with learning about the duration and the passage of time. Time is such an abstract and intangible concept, even for us adults. Imagine, from a developmental point of view, what a child who can’t even understand for a second or ten years would be like?
History for Toddlers
First, begin to help your toddler learn to understand time. A great way to begin this is to give them an old-fashioned large egg timer with loud second clicks, and have them wait for specific things: one minute for a dessert after dinner, or counting down an hour before bath time. You can also make learning time into fun activities, such as having a wall calendar and letting them draw the weather for each day, and then asking them about what the weather was like on past days. (more…)