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Course Overview
American History is an activity-based program for students from age 6 to 18. It covers the colonial period through the 21st century. The course books are for mentors to use as a scaffold and idea resource when planning reading, activities, discussions, and writing assignments. The course consists of nine units, one for each month of your school year. Each unit contains a library list of books to choose from followed by a series of lesson plans, which we call Explorations, to select among. The lessons include supply lists and step-by-step instructions for completing learning, activities, and discussions.
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What’s In This PDF Set?
American History includes nine individual month-long units including:
- Thirteen Colonies
- American Revolution
- Expanding Nation
- Civil War
- Wild West
- Gilded Age
- Second World War
- Cold War
- Information Age
A Layers of Learning History Lesson
Each Exploration in the units is written as a complete lesson plan. It will direct you to books to read, videos to watch, projects to craft, games to play, and discussions to have. The units are clear full of Explorations to choose from, and you won’t have time for them all. This is a pick-and-choose curriculum.
Besides the history lesson for the day, the units are lined with sidebars that direct you to discussions, books, famous people, interesting facts, writing ideas, and more.
You will also see a Library List at the beginning and a Show What You Know section at the end that will help you create assessments or tests based on your individual learning.
Reusable and for All Ages
These units books are for the mentor, not to hand to the student. They are supposed to be used repeatedly. Since this is a pick-and-choose curriculum, you do some of the explorations and save others for later on. You can insert this into the Layers of Learning Four Year Cycle in place of any of the Layers of Learning History courses. We recommend that American families use this course at least once during your child’s education.
The American History units contain plenty of concepts for little kids and plenty to challenge high schoolers. Most lessons are meant to be taught to many ages, from 6-year-olds clear up to seniors in high school. Each age group gets the same Exploration and principles, but they learn on the level they are ready for. Books from your library and video from the YouTube playlists customize the learning for each age.
Extra Resources
YouTube playlists and links to helpful websites are all assembled and ready for you to access on the American History Resources page.
If you are printing the PDF course, you may want a printable American History cover for your binder.
Printable Packs
American History also includes printables for every unit. These are worksheets or paper crafts for the students. The Printable Packs are available as a digital PDF download and come with your purchase on your receipt.
Also Sold As Individual PDFs
The American History course also comes as individual PDF units you can purchase one-by-one as you go. The individual PDFs are exactly the same content as the units that are included within the paperback or PDF American History book. It’s like buying the course chapter by chapter in a digital format.
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