As It Was! is an interdisciplinary approach to American History. It takes broad-based concepts and applies them to a particular period of time. Students are provided with opportunities to explore America’s past through the following disciplines:
      • Language Arts
      • Social Studies
      • Science
      • Math
      • Art/music

This book is divided into three units.
      Issues: Activities are designed to provide students with opportunities to understand and analyze major historical topics.

      People: Activities are designed to provide students with opportunities to understand and analyze major historical individuals.

      Places: Activities are designed to provide students with opportunities to understand and analyze major historical locations.

Each unit is divided into the following three sections:
      Get the Idea!
      This page introduces and defines the concept. It includes an activity which teaches the concept

      Get the Facts!
      These pages provide multi-curricular activities based on the concept. Activities are designed to provide students
      with an opportunity to apply and analyze the concept via content.

      Make the Connection!
      Each Make the Connection page contains an open-ended activity which enables students to synthesize and
      evaluate the relationship between the concept and the content.

Objectives
Students will…
      • participate in experiences to develop concepts;
      • use research skills to “Get the Facts!” related to the learned concept;
      • use research skills to explore Issues, People, and Places during a historical time period;
      • explore concepts through the disciplines of Language Arts, Social Studies, Science, Math, and Art;
      • connect the concept and the content;
      • use factual information incorporating higher-order thinking skills (analysis, synthesis, evaluation); and
      • work creatively with information integrating content areas.

Download the Table of Contents page here.

Grades 4–8. (This volume focuses on the period of early American history from the Revolutionary War to the adoption of the Constitution.)