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Course Overview
Bring the story of the United States to life around your kitchen table! Covering everything from the colonial era through the 21st century, this complete, year-long curriculum is designed for all your kids—from your 6-year-old beginners to your 18-year-old high school seniors—to learn together.
Instead of a rigid, one-size-fits-all textbook, American History serves as a flexible mentor’s guide and idea scaffold. It gives you everything you need to plan rich reading, hands-on projects, meaningful discussions, and writing assignments across nine month-long units.
Learn more about how Layers of Learning works.
What’s Included in This Complete PDF Set?
This full-year course includes nine individual, month-long units designed to take you through an entire school year—plus matching Student Printable Packs (worksheets and paper crafts) for every single unit!
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- Thirteen Colonies
- American Revolution
- Expanding Nation
- Civil War
- Wild West
- Gilded Age
- Second World War
- Cold War
- Information Age
Bonus: Printing your course at home? Don’t forget to grab the free printable American History cover for your mentor binder!
Inside a Layers of Learning History Unit
Every unit is built as a “pick-and-choose” buffet of learning. Because each unit is packed with options, you won’t have time to do them all. Simply select what fits your family’s interests and schedule without ever feeling behind.
- Curated Library Lists: Start each unit with a categorized book list to easily request picture books, historical fiction, and biographies from your local library.
- Step-by-Step Explorations: Each lesson plan includes supply lists and clear instructions for crafts, games, videos, reading, and discussions.
- Engaging Sidebars: Margins are lined with quick prompts for famous people, fascinating facts, discussion starters, and writing ideas.
- Show What You Know: End each unit with flexible ideas to help you create custom assessments, projects, or tests tailored to what your kids actually studied.
- Ready-to-Go Digital Extras: Access pre-assembled YouTube playlists and vetted website links anytime on the American History Resources page.
Reusable & Designed for All Ages (6-18)
These unit guides are written for you, the mentor, rather than as a consumable workbook to hand to a student. Because you only use a portion of the Explorations each time, you can reuse this course multiple times as your children grow.
- True Multi-Age Teaching: Every age group explores the exact same historical concepts together, but engages at their own developmental level using age-appropriate library books, videos, and printable pages.
- Fits Your Cycle: Easily swap this course into the Layers of Learning Four Year Cycle in place of any standard Layers of Learning History year. We recommend American families complete this course at least once during their children’s K–12 education
Product & Buying Details
- Format: Instant Digital PDF Download (9 Unit PDFs + Student Printable Packs included on your receipt). No physical book will be shipped.
- Prefer to buy as you go? Every unit in this bundle is also sold as an individual PDF unit—with the exact same content—so you can purchase the course chapter-by-chapter if you prefer.
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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