The most important thing you should remember about this review is that you can download this product for free at the American Heritage Education Foundation website!! Scroll down to about the middle of the page and you can choose from Elementary, Middle, and High School lesson plans to download. For this review, I am focusing on the Elementary section since my children are 10 years old and under.
This resource is information packed!! You could use the facts included for a whole year of American History lessons. It is definitely put together for a larger group of children sitting in a classroom together in that it is mostly chunks of information with some analyzing activities. Not that it’s bad – just not as *colorful* as a typical homeschooler might want their American History class. As with anything, you can take the ideas and information contained in this curriculum and use it as a foundation or spring-board for additional activities. You certainly will not have to go searching the website for the material needed to cover all the topics for class.
The topics included are as follows:
- Introduction
- American Heritage Themes
- Colonial American – Causes of the American Revolution
- Declaration of Independence
- A Famous Signature
- George Washington – Our First President
- The U.S. Presidents
- The Great Seal
- The History of Thanksgiving Day
- The United States Flag
- The Star Spangled Banner
- The National Motto
- The Statue of Liberty
- The Pledge of Allegiance Creed
- American the Beautiful
- What is an American?
My favorite topics were The U.S. Presidents and The Statue of Liberty. Since even the elementary section is geared toward 2nd to 6th grade, most of the teaching ideas are quite over my kids’ heads, but those two sections had some ideas in them that I could see using to teach my kids.
Don’t forget to head on over to their website to download this great free resource and check out the other things they have available!
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