The Heritage Foundation

Bring Your American History Lessons to Life This School Year!

Whether you’re studying America’s founding, the Civil War, westward expansion, or U.S. presidents, America’s historic sites offer memorable opportunities to connect lessons with real people, real places, and real events.

But not every historic site presents America’s story the same way.

The Heritage Guide to Historic Sites helps you plan field trips with confidence by reviewing destinations across all 50 states for historical accuracy, balance, and family considerations. Before you hit the road, you can compare reviews, explore ratings, and find sites that align with your educational goals.

From battlefields and presidential homes to museums and landmarks, the Guide makes it easier to discover places where history comes alive for your children.

As an added bonus, you’ll also find a FREE downloadable Kids Activity Book and Parent Resource Guide to help your family get even more out of every visit.

Start planning your next American history adventure with The Heritage Guide to Historic Sites: https://www.heritage.org/historicsites

American Heritage Education Foundation

Why Is It Important to Teach America’s Founding?

Studies show that Americans today do not possess adequate knowledge about our nation’s founding history, principles, and civic institutions. This widespread deficiency is a serious matter in a self-governing republic such as ours, which relies on an educated citizenry to govern itself. If these trends continue, America will not be able to endure as designed by our Founders.

To counter this trend, the American Heritage Education Foundation (AHEF) provides FREE, easy-to-use K–12 Lesson Plans for teachers and homeschoolers on America’s founding documents, history, principles, and civic institutions to promote informed patriotism and responsible citizenship among students.

Lesson Features

• Emphasize Freedom, Unity, Progress, and Responsibility (FUPR).
• Meet NCSS C3 Social Studies Standards.
• Develop inquiry, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills.
• Include primary source analysis, Q&A, hands-on activities, writing exercises, group discussions, assessments, and more.
• Written by a team of professional certified educators.
• Tested and proven to raise social studies test scores.

Lesson Topics

• Mayflower Compact
• Colonial America
• Thanksgiving
• Declaration of Independence
• U.S. Constitution
• Bill of Rights
• Branches of Government
• Interdependence of the States
• Freedom
• National Symbols
• Monuments & Memorials
• Citizenship
• National Debt and more!

With AHEF’s lessons, students will better understand their own responsibilities as citizens and what it means to be an American. These outcomes benefit our nation and future. Download lessons at:

 www.americanheritage.org

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STATE HISTORY by A Helping Hand

for Homeschoolers, Christian Schools, Support Groups

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Study YOUR State—We Have All Fifty!

State History from a Christian Perspective (Grades 3–12)

• Complete state history course on your state, including text, maps, colorable state symbol pictures, quizzes, tests, lesson plans, answer key, state constitution study.
• Students use our text material to construct a project notebook either in their own three-ring binder or in Abeka’s My State Notebook.
• Thirty-lesson (six-week) course, easily expandable. One-semester option for secondary level can be teacher-directed or independent study.

My State History Funbook (Age 4–Grade 2)

• Color-cut-paste introduction to your state.
• Includes spiral-bound pre-formatted scrapbook with cutouts and state symbol. pictures to be pasted into the Funbook.
• Correlated with older level; all ages can learn together.

OR Study ALL FIFTY states!

Fifty States Under God (Grades 3–12)

• Workbook study of all fifty states in order of statehood.
• Time-line and progressive map study built right into lesson plans.
• Completely self-contained: provides instructions and all information necessary for workpages.
• Color state symbol pictures for all fifty states included.

Fifty States Under God for Young Learners (Age 4–Grade 2)

• Color-cut-paste version, correlated with older level

Geography of the Fifty States (Grades 3–12)

• Teaches U.S. Geography through a study of the fifty states in order of statehood.
• Correlates geography with history to show how geography affected our nation’s growth pattern.
• Completely self-contained. Includes tests, answer keys, teacher instructions.

Study Your State