This is just plain fun — for teachers and students. Take a colorful, interactive journey through world history. This quiz takes about seven minutes and will be super engaging for your students!

Appropriate for high school and middle school social studies, English classes, remote/distance learning, and libraries. This novel is also a great refresher for college students to retain the basic outline of the history of Western Civilization. (Note that the content is more advanced — in terms of complexity and danger — than the Lexile/reading level of the text.)

• High School Version
• Middle School Version

This lesson plan taps into students’ creativity and imagination as they design a mythical creature based on the beliefs, values, and artwork of a past society (an exercise to appeal to most young people). Students enjoy creating a history-based mythical creature: a “lumin,” like Zidu from The Jericho River. Great for distance learning and homeschooling.

Another engaging project for students! Students create a boat and a scene from a past society, in a diorama, based on the actual appearance and technology of that society.

This assignment requires an oral or written description of the diorama and its place in history. Students imagine they’re visiting the historic society, like a character in The Jericho River.

Great for distance learning and homeschooling.

Please use these illustrations for educational purposes, in class!