Students learn about the people, places, and issues of the world’s past through the multicurricular activities in language arts, social studies, science, math, and the arts. Each book contains 27 topics grouped into three units. Each topic provides five multicurricular activities. In addition, an introductory activity and an open-ended culminating activity are offered for each of the units.

The following are a few of the activities offered in American History Set I: Create Signs Protesting the Intolerable Acts; Calculate the Number of States that Equaled 2/3 in 1789, 1189, and 1989; and Create a Travel Brochure for Salem, MA.

Exploration, Discovery, Encounter: Marco Polo, F. Magellan, H. Cabot, Tobacco, Gold, Northwest Passage, James Cook, Pizzaro, and more.

War to Constitution: The Intolerable Acts, The Articles of Confederation, Federalists and Republicans, The Marquis de Lafayette, Lexington and Concord, Valley Forge, Williamsburg, and more.

Settlement and Colonization: The Mayflower Compact; Colonial Cash Crops; Indentured Servants; Roger Williams; Phillis Wheatley; Peter Stuyvesant; Plymouth; Northern, Middle, and Southern Colonies; and more.

Westward Expansion: Northwest Ordinances of 1785 and 1787, the Louisiana Purchase, Oklahoma Territory, Tecumseh, Mormons, The Wilderness Road and the National Road, California, The Alamo, and more.

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Grades 4–8.

SPECIAL SET PRICE: If purchased individually, these books would cost $43.80.