Horrible Histories

I know this may be old news, but we just discovered a fun addition to our history lessons. It is a series of videos, most of which you can find on YouTube, called Horrible Histories.

These videos are truly horrible. Some of them are pretty gross, so don't say I didn't warn you. Gross is funny, though, don't you know, so it can be a fun way to get them remember a few things about history, even if they might not be the most important things.

They actually have a website and a set of books you can get. The episodes and games can be found here.

You can also find them on YouTube and can search for any historical event you want too. The only draw-back to YouTube is the commercial they put in the beginning of each.

I came across them when I found an episode about Leonardo daVinci on TedEd. 

After showing this to the kids, they went to YouTube and spent a couple of hours just watching videos. Here is one entire show (about a half hour) about Napolean, the Victorian Era, the Romans, history of Scotland, WWII, the Middle Ages, and Stupid Deaths

and here is a snippet of just "Stupid Deaths"

Have fun!