The American Heritage Education Foundation is a non-profit educational foundation dedicated to the understanding and teaching of our nation’s factual and philosophical heritage to promote constructive citizenship and freedom, unity, progress, and responsibility among our students and citizens.
As a member of the TOS Crew, I received a cd copy of America’s Heritage: An Adventure in Liberty. America’s Heritage is meant to assist teacher’s in the teaching of our nation’s history. Sadly, this knowledge is seriously lacking in many of our nation’s citizens. In order to be able to learn from our past, we need to know our past. History really does repeat itself. By knowing our nation’s history, we can try to avoid some of the mistakes that have already been made.
The cd includes resources for Elementary, Elementary Spanish, Middle School, and High School. It correlates with NCSS and Core Knowledge national social studies standards. The layout is very easy to follow. You can pick and chose which topics/resources to use, or you can just go through the whole curriculum as is. I like to pick and chose and customize for Munchkin. I liked that I could just look at the table of contents and go directly to the topic that I wanted to cover.
The topics for elementary include:
- 1776 – Colonial America: American Revolution
- 1776 – The Declaration of Independence
- 1776 – A Famous Signature
- 1762 – George Washington
- 1762 – U. S. Presidents
- 1782 – The Great Seal
- 1789 – Thanksgiving
- 1792 – The United States Flag
- 1814 – The Star-Spangled Banner
- 1864 – The National Motto
- 1886 – The Statue of Liberty
- 1892 – The Pledge of Allegiance & Creed
- 1895 – America the Beautiful
- 2000 – What is an American?
Because I did not go through all topics for all of the levels, I am unable to tell you if everything lines up with my beliefs/values. From what I did see, I would say that these resources could be used as a supplement to most curriculum. The good news is that this cd is FREE. That’s right. You can get a copy of the cd or a download for free. If you would prefer a printed version, you will need to pay $19.50 to help cover the costs of printing and shipping.
of the cd version of American’s Heritage to do this review.
No other compensation was received. All opinions are my own.
