Do You Know the History of Your City’s Name?

When carschoolers get antsy on long trips, pull out your car atlas or map and challenge them to search for cities with weird and wacky names—the United States is full of them! You could also challenge them to find (in the atlas) the following cities and towns and ponder the meaning of the names:

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June 25th, 2012 | Tags: , | Category: activities, Learning Fun, Road Scholar | Leave a comment

Infallible History

Lies Across America: What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong, by James W. Loewen identifies historical markers, monuments, and sites in every state that have historical interpretations that are either misleading or wrong. Loewen is the author of the award-winning best seller Lies My Teacher Told Me, a book that discredits 12 leading high school history […]

March 15th, 2012 | Tags: , , , | Category: Learning Fun, Road Scholar | Leave a comment

The Writing on the Wall…

Practice foreign languages by translating the names of common things you see through the car window in the language you want to practice. To practice nouns, one player calls out whatever he or she sees in English-car, boy, cow, and so forth-and the other players try to say the word in Spanish, French, or any […]

March 15th, 2012 | Tags: , , | Category: activities, Learning Fun, Road Scholar | Leave a comment
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