The Context Clue Project

Blog photography is 1000% more difficult to do when you're trying to pose a bunch of varied historical artifacts in your home office. 😆 I've got an upcoming blog release especially for y'all super soon! Website construction in progress!

Once the blog is up you'll have way more insider information if you subscribe to the (free!) once a week email list I'm working on for you. It will be once a week so no spam, just lots of goodies about free or affordable homeschooling resources, tips for making history the most exciting subject ever, and regular updates about when and where you can buy my interactive history materials.

Hello everyone! I have a few announcements to make.

After a lot of health problems this year that slowed down the production process, the release date for the first chapters of interactive curriculum has been moved from July to this fall.

Additionally, it is not only me working on the history curriculum project anymore. My husband, a public school teacher with 6 years of experience in designing daily curriculum for his classroom, has decided to join me in this endeavor to build a quality history curriculum for homeschoolers. I'm very excited to have his editing help and education background to come to the table with my training in historical research. (Also, he's my favorite, but I'm aware I'm partial 😆)

The curriculum's official name is now The Context Clue Project, and I'm so excited for the blog on everything we have to offer to release soon. (did I mention there's a blog?!)

Best wishes from my family to yours,

The Eckhardts ❤️

(Photo: tiled room for tuberculosis patients, circa late 19th or early 20th century. Asheville, North Carolina.)

[Quote in image attributed to Joe Becigneul]



There are many admirable reasons to choose to homeschool, but one of them is most certainly the desire to equip your child with the ability to succeed and thrive in an academic setting that honors their differences rather than simply pathologizing them or having inadequate resources to give the student what they deserve. That's one of the things my curriculum is all about!

Hello friends,

I apologize for going AWOL on this account for the past few weeks. Last month my husband and I had COVID, and it's taken a while for me to really feel like myself and feel like I'm physically able to keep up with the social media updates for my work on the curriculum.

I am doing much better now, and love all of you for not giving up on me for the inconsistent content production. Sometimes the hardest part of being a writer is nailing the writing routine, and the balance between raising awareness for the project, researching for the project, and writing and editing the project.

Happy Autumn!

It's been a long week of curriculum outlining, researching publishing options, but i could not be more excited for what's to come ♥

Do your kids think history is cool? This summer I had the privilege of developing a podcast style interactive history tour for a tenth grader and her best friend. Using project based learning instead of a traditional textbook, these girls learned about the time periods they were studying, visited places where the people they were learning about had actually lived and worked, baked bread from a colonial era recipe, and answered questions about the time period using a real diary from a child growing up during the civil war.

If your kids hate history, or if you find the textbook approach to teaching history tedious, it doesn't mean anything is wrong with your homeschool! It could just mean that project-based learning could be a more natural fit. This July I plan to release my first unit for the curious child who wants to see and touch history rather than just read about it. Reading is amazing, but it should not be the only way we learn!

History hiatus is over! I missed y'all.



Looking forward to returning to reels and posting every week with you. ☺️