Social Studies General Information

  • Social Studies Alive textbook studying America’s Past.
  • Inquiry-based activities using multiple intelligences (visual discover, response groups, writing for understanding, etc.)
  • The textbook and workbook are both  online.   
ERA 1    
  • Beginnings to 1620
  • American Indian Life in the Americas
  • European exploration
  • African Life before 16th century
  • Three Worlds interact
ERA 2
  • Colonization and settlement
  • European Struggle for control of North America
  • European slave trade
  • Life in colonial America
ERA 3
  • Causes of the Revolutionary War
  • American Revolution and its consequences
  • Creating a new government and a Constitution