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Time4Learning presents a logical and sequential approach to teaching social studies. This approach ensures that children cover the material required by many state standards and that appropriate review is built in from grade to grade.

Seventh and eighth grade social studies are combined, with students rounding out their social studies curriculum with an in-depth study of American history from colonization to the Clinton administration.

The Time4Learning program combines illustration, animation, real pictures, audio, text, video and embedded simulations in multimedia online lessons and activities.  It also combines math and writing skills in cross-curricular activities that are completed both on and offline.  There are 106 lessons in the social studies curriculum, including the following units of study:

• The Age of Exploration
• English Colonization
• American Revolution Causes
• The American Revolution
• Creation of US Government
• Early Years of the Republic
• Age of Jefferson
• Growth and Expansion
• Jacksonian Democracy
• Manifest Destiny
• Reform Movements
• Causes of the Civil War
• The Civil War
• Reconstruction
• Immigration and Industry
• United States as a World Power
• World War I
• Roaring Twenties
• The Great Depression
• World War II
• The Cold War
• Changing Times in America
• Modern America

For a complete list of units and lessons, check out the Seventh and Eighth Grade Social Studies Lesson Plan page.  Or check out a demo lesson from this course.

DEMO LESSON: Liberty or Death Students will analyze the early calls for Independence by colonists and the early battles of the American Revolution.

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If you have been homeschooling long, you have probably had an experience where a subject you thought your children would be excited about was the very subject they were bored stiff by.  This is often the case with American History.

If presented as simply a series of chronological events, or as an unconnected grouping of historical literature, American History can be underwhelming, to say the least.  But if you are a homeschooler with Time4Learning, you have an opportunity to learn American History in a whole new way.

Time4Learning offers multimedia American History lessons for grades seven or eight that combine animation, text, and audio to enhance the learning process.  If your child enjoys learning on the computer, and would benefit from an interactive approach to studying history, then American History with Time4Learning may be the program for him or her.  (To try out one of the American History lessons, choose one of the demo lessons from the 6th to 8th grade category on the demo lessons page.)

The course is quite comprehensive, covering twenty-three units, from the Age of Exploration through the modern era.  Each unit includes multimedia lessons, resource pages, lesson quizzes, and unit tests.   The American History Lessons include such titles as: British Taxes, Issues Facing the Nation, Quest for the West, The Effects of Reconstruction, Post War Challenges, and Civil Rights Era.  And students enjoy the variety of both online and offline activities designed to help them master the material.

In addition, each unit includes a teaching guide that parents can use to help extend the lessons through intercurricular activities, discussion questions, and literature suggestions.  All in all, you probably won’t find a more in-depth - - and fun - - American History program for homeschool available anywhere.  Why wait?  Sign up for Time4Learning’s multimedia American History course today!

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