History Quest: United States Study Guide
$48.99 – $64.99
$36.74 – $48.74
eBook or print*
*The print format includes a PDF of the student pages, maps, and lists to make copying for family use easier. The PDF link is sent after checkout.
$48.99 – $64.99
$36.74 – $48.74
eBook or print*
*The print format includes a PDF of the student pages, maps, and lists to make copying for family use easier. The PDF link is sent after checkout.
Grade level: 3rd through 6th
Pages: 256
Course type: Study guide designed to be used with the History Quest: United States narrative chapter book (Please see the Booklist tab for the literature books required to complete this course.)
Author: Lindsey Sodano
History Quest: United States Study Guide is a comprehensive and engaging, full-year secular history curriculum for upper elementary-age children. Designed to be used with the History Quest: United States narrative history book and other resources, it provides 34 weeks of creative, hands-on activities, literature suggestions, geography study, and writing assignments that help bring history to life.
Each unit in the guide corresponds to a chapter from History Quest: United States and provides a week’s worth of engaging and interactive activities laid out in clear, easy-to-follow lesson plans. You’ll find a suggested daily schedule that focuses on a different learning technique each day, important terms and concepts related to that week’s reading, resource recommendations, and more. Best of all, each week’s plan can be followed as written in the guide or easily adapted to meet your family’s particular needs and interests.
A helpful appendix section in the back features literature and supply lists for the entire course, as well as map keys and student activity pages (conveniently perforated and reproducible for easy single-family use).
Within the curriculum, we’ve included five weeks of Hygge History, a special tie-in literature study encouraging parents and students to snuggle up together and enjoy fascinating stories from some of the cultures and themes that are studied in this course—Native American Tales, Black Folktales, Tall Tales, Legendary Women, and Exploring Civics. Based on the Danish philosophy of hygge, which emphasizes coziness and comfort, these units are a great way to slow down, connect, and learn more about a particular time and place through storytelling. Each Hygge History unit comes with a detailed description of the suggested book (or books) for that week to help you choose the right one for your child.
Through History Quest: United States, students will learn about the ideas, conflicts, inventions, and individuals that shaped the United States (and the world) and take their first step in a life-long quest to explore and appreciate history.
Students will learn about events that occurred from the 1500s to the early 21st century. Major areas of study include:
Five important learning techniques are woven into each weekly lesson throughout our History Quest Study Guides at age-appropriate levels. Through these techniques, students examine multiple resources, read historically significant literature, develop and strengthen critical thinking skills, practice and refine written and verbal expression, and study world geography and geographical significances throughout the history of humankind.
Research projects
United States history blackline maps
Hands-on activity instructions
Literature and online enrichment recommendations
Weekly unit schedules and supply lists
Student coloring and activity pages
In addition to this study guide, you will need:
View a complete list of supplies needed for projects.
Important Copyright Information: If you choose the eBook version of this course, you are purchasing a license to use the PDF for your own children. You may make copies for your own children, but you may not share (email, download, print and distribute, resell, etc.) this eBook or any portion of this eBook to others.
Licensing is available for group, school, and co-op use. Please contact Pandia Press for details on group licensing (info@pandiapress.com).
Main Spines
1. History Quest: United States
Hygge History Literature
There are five units in this study guide that employ the Danish concept of hygge—a joyful mix of coziness, togetherness, and a general feeling of well-being—where enjoyment of classic literature is your only assignment for the week.
#1 Native American Tales
The Girl Who Helped Thunder and Other Native American Folktales retold by James Bruchac and Joseph Bruchac, Ph.D.
#2. Black Folktales
The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales told by Virginia Hamilton
#3. Tall Talkes
American Tall Tales by Mary Pope Osborne
#4. Legendary Women
Option 1. Choose any number of the following stories that feature female protagonists:
Doña Flor: A Tall Tale About a Giant Woman with a Great Big Heart by Pat Mora
Sally Ann Thunder Ann Whirlwind Crockett retold and illustrated by Steven Kellogg
Thunder Rose by Jerdine Nolen
The Ghosts of Luckless Gulch by Anne Isaacs
Swamp Angel by Anne Isaacs
Option 2. Her Stories: African American Folktales, Fairy Tales, and True Tales told by Virginia Hamilton
#5 Exploring Civics. Choose one or both of the following books:
1. That’s Not Fair!: Getting to Know Your Rights and Freedoms by Danielle S. McLaughlin
2. How to Build Your Own Country by Valerie Wyatt
Supplies Needed for HQ United States Study guide
