History 4

Concluding a program that, spanning the elementary grades, explores world geography and history from the Stone Age to the Space Age, this course focuses on the period from the Scientific Revolution to modern times. Through lively stories and activities, students will:

• Learn about the Age of Enlightenment and the investigations of Isaac Newton and Ben Franklin.
• Meet James Madison, father of the U.S. Constitution.
• Explore the causes and consequences of the French Revolution.
• Learn about independence movements in Latin America.
• See how great changes—nationalism, industrialism, and imperialism—shaped, and sometimes shattered, the modern world, leading to the two World Wars.
• Get to know many inventors and innovators who achieved great advances in communication, transportation, medicine, and government.

Standard Curriculum Items

• Understanding Geography Level 4 - Map Skills and Our World (maps.com, 2006)
• Inflatable Globe (3–6)
• US/World Map (3–5)
• Charles Dickens: The Man Who Had Great Expectations by Diane Stanley and Peter Vennema (William Morrow and Co., 1993)
• Inventors: A Library of Congress Book by Martin Sandler (HarperCollins, 1996)
• The U.S. Constitution and You by Syl Sobel (Barron’s, 2001)

Total lessons: 108

Lesson time: 60 minutes

You might choose to split the lessons into smaller segments, for example, from 20 to 25 minutes. The K¹² online lesson tracking system allows you to pick up wherever you left off in any given lesson.