6-8 Core Curriculum – History: Revolutions
Take your children on a fascinating trip back in time to explore the European Scientific Revolution, the European Enlightenment, the American Revolution, the French Revolution, and the connections among these world changing events. Highlights include multisensory activities to engage your children and provide the connection to make history relevant in their own lives. Each chapter includes current and active links to multiple videos, hands-on activities, readings, lesson plans, worksheets, charts, interactive websites, games, full-color high resolution graphics, and more!
This unit study is part of our history core curriculum series for grades 6-8. The time needed to complete this unit study will vary for each child, but you should expect to spend approximately 50 hours.
Take a peek inside:
A timeline approach to history
The birth of modern science
Copernicus
Galileo
Rene Descartes
Isaac Newton
Modern links to the Scientific Revolution
The ideas behind the European Enlightenment
Thomas Hobbes and John Locke
The contributions of Montesquieu, Voltaire, and Rousseau
American Enlightenment leaders
The French and Indian War
Causes of the American Revolution
Patriot revolts and protests in the 1770s
Historical events through multiple perspectives
The influence of speeches and poetry
Africans in America
Native Americans and the American Revolutionary War
Major American Revolutionary War battles
Enlightenment ideas in the Declaration of Independence
The legacy of the American Revolution
Connections between the American Revolution and the French Revolution
Causes of the French Revolution
The ancient regime and the three estates
Fall of the Bastille
The Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen
Fall of the monarchy
The Reign of Terror
The French Revolution and slavery
The Haitian Revolution
The legacy of the French Revolution
Napoleon Bonaparte
The Napoleonic Code
and much more!
All activities in this unit study are presented in an easy to follow format with an active and updated web link. Click on the link and the best resources on the World Wide Web appear for your children. The links bring the world to your children by providing streaming videos, interactive web sites, educational games, audio files, and more. At Intellego Unit Studies, we believe in the varied learning styles and multiple intelligences of every child. That’s why all of our unit studies include reading and writing activities, videos, art, comparisons, drawing and painting, discussions, hands-on activities, art projects, full-color high resolution graphics, printable activity pages, and more!
About Us
Our Mission
At Intellego Unit Studies, our mission is to provide engaging curriculum that meets the need of the 21st century student. Using the best resources available on the Internet, Intellego Unit Studies unites technology, learning style theory, and multisensory activities to help children reach their true academic potential.
Our Focus
At Intellego Unit Studies, we provide comprehensive and complete K-8 curriculum in social studies and science. In addition, we provide multidisciplinary unit studies for electives and enrichment in the areas of science, history, art, music, civics, cultures, and popular interest.
Our Inspiration
At Intellego Unit Studies, we are inspired by the inquisitive nature of children and the nurturing adults who guide their learning.
Our Challenge
Before Intellego Unit Studies was created, we listened as children and parents complained that their curriculum was boring, inadequate, limiting, out-dated, or just plain ineffective.
You asked for:
Quality curriculum that replaces dumbing down with high expectations for students.
Engaging curriculum that supports active learning.
Creative activities that support parental involvement in their children’s education.
Comprehensive curriculum that teaches from multiple viewpoints.
Multisensory curriculum that contains more than just reading and writing activities.
Secular curriculum that respects the religious and spiritual beliefs of all people.
Multicultural curriculum that recognizes the past, present and future of racial and cultural minorities.
Reliable web-linked curriculum that brings your family the best resources on the Internet.
Easy to use curriculum that does not require extensive prep time.
Research-based curriculum that supports the learning needs of your children.
We have listened, and we hope you will agree that we have met the challenge you have placed before us.