If you want an instant visual representation of a concept map, try putting an education poster on the wall. The ones by Crash Course are especially great!

https://store.dftba.com/collections/crashcourse

You can also get lots of educational posters from allposters.com.

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DK Books and Smithsonian have partnered to make beautiful encyclopedic books on a variety of topics, such as Animal!

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National Geographic also publishes beautiful books of photographs, like this one:

National Geographic Photo Ark Wonders: Celebrating Diversity in the Animal Kingdom Hardcover by Joel Sartore

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This classic game inspires players to search their “mental garages” for ideas that fit the drawing.

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This website catalogs the tropes (familiar, cliche elements) that make up TV shows and movies. You’ll never see TV quite the same again! Note: Includes some topics that may not be appropriate for young children.

https://tvtropes.org/

In 1978, the BBC ran a 10-part documentary by James Burke called Connections, which was later a series of Scientific American essays and a book.

Be inspired by James Burke’s Connections in any of their forms, as he shows the surprising connections and contingencies of history!

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If you’re like me, you’re sick of Great Man History, which focuses on elite individuals, or history as nothing but a series of wars.

Check out these history books for a completely different perspective on the contingencies of history—how one event or innovation had knock-on effects that changed everything that came after:

If Walls Could Talk: An Intimate History of the Home by Lucy Worsley

At Home: A Short History of Private Life by Bill Bryson

Salt: A World History by Mark Kurlansky

The Story of Writing: Alphabets, Hieroglyphs & Pictograms by Andrew Robinson

A Place For Everything: The Curious History of Alphabetical Order by Judith Flanders

Or watch these fascinating videos:

I tried 500 years of Haircuts by Morgan Donner

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If the Walls Could Talk by Lucy Worsley

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A Day in the Life of an Enslaved Lady's Maid | These Roots Episode 1 by Cheyney Mcknight, NotYourMommasHistory

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It's important that crossword puzzles be at just the right level. Teens may be able to tackle the New York Times crosswords with some adult help. They range from easiest on Monday to the hardest on Sunday.

https://www.nytimes.com/crosswords

For younger kids, make sure to get crosswords targeted for their age group. Crossword puzzles are often targeted to older folks, and it's just pointless and frustrating to try to complete a puzzle when the clues are all about celebrities or events from decades before you were born. Are "John, Paul, George and Ringo" meaningful to your kid? Remember that the events of the 1960s are as distant to a 10-year old today as the events of the 1930s are to a 40-year old parent!