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AMERIKIDS^® LEARNING HISTORY GUIDE

AMERIKIDS® is a personal development game, book, film and television series. It is targeted for the adolescent ranging in age from 8 to 18. AMERIKIDS enhances the curriculum of American History and Social Studies by making it entertaining and informative. The reading level is a third through tenth grade of  high school. We are gaining the endorsement, buying power ,and recommendations of boys and girls clubs, along with school districts, parent teacher associations and educational consultants.

The following curriculum notes show how the AMERIKIDS personal development game series can be used in a classroom setting or in the home to learn history and just have fun. The American History curriculum, an ever changing subject in each classroom, has the potential to be custom designed, because AMERIKIDS is flexible and adaptive on many levels of the Social Studies Curriculum. For example, the AMERIKIDS CD-ROM interactive adventure game Pony Express Rider includes:

Other titles emphasize different periods and issues.

A Wide Range of Product Potential

The wide range of characters in each AMERIKIDS series title suggests that we can author a plethora of interesting biographical novelettes for use in the middle grades.

AMERIKIDS compliments curriculum as the student is taught U.S. History and Social Science.

Middle Grade Curriculum, Grades Five and Eight

SUMMARY OF GOALS

How does AMERIKIDS content apply to skill objectives?

The Amerikids series through thoughtful and interesting accounts supports a teachers' efforts to bring the goals of the history-social science program to life.  It reflects the characteristics, goals, strands, and course descriptions of each state's framework of history and its social science curriculum. It aims to reflect the needs of each state's criteria's for evaluating instructional materials.

The AMERIKIDS series provides:

Holistic Presentation of History and Geography

The Amerikids series presents history and geography in a holistic manner, integrated with the humanities and the social sciences. Time and place are central to each setting. The life of the people are depicted with empathy, as they saw themselves, and contemporary events. The program offers perspectives and attention to the ethical beliefs and values of civilization that speak in universal terms.

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History with Interest and Enthusiasm

The Amerikids series presents this period in history as an exciting and fascinating story with interest and enthusiasm. Our series is vivid and dramatic without sacrificing accuracy. It aids students in recognizing the universal humanity of people in other places and in different times. The Amerikids series focuses on those people whose triumphs and tragedies continue to deserve our attention.

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Experiences   of  the  Ordinary  Citizen... A LEARNING HISTORY GUIDE

The "AMERIKIDS Learning History Guide" conveys a lively sense of people who struggled, even failed, achieved great things, labored in anonymity and trod boldly onto the stage of history.

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Good  Scholarship

The "AMERIKIDS Learning History Guide" is based on the best and most recent scholarship on this subject. The Guide skillfully interweaves history, geography, and the humanities with the perspective of social sciences. These periods, like the present, are rife with controversy, with hotly contested events, with division among major figures, and with debate on the part of policy makers.

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The "AMERIKIDS Learning History Guide" portrays the experiences of men, women and adolescents as well as different racial, religious and ethnic groups. Our Guide delineates the ethical ideas developed by different people in history. Either as religious or secular belief systems, we consider the ethical principles at stake in these historical events. The Guide gives students the opportunity to consider standards of ethical behavior. It particularly pays special attention to the treatment and understanding of human rights as an expression of a society's ethics.

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Authentic Sense of US History and Geography

The "AMERIKIDS Learning History Guide", by including primary source materials enables the student to get an authentic sense of other times and places. These materials in the form of speeches, court decisions, and literature serve as a voice from the past, bringing the narrative to life.

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Basic Principles of Democracy

The "AMERIKIDS Learning History Guide" reflects the significance of civic values and democratic institutions.  This Guide makes the student pay special attention to the evolution of basic democratic principles such as freedom of speech, press, religion, respect for the rights of minorities and other hallmarks of a democratic society.

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Equality, Justice and Freedom

The "AMERIKIDS Learning History Guide" describes the balance between the rights of citizens and the power of the state. The Guide includes patriotic emphasis, not of a jingoistic, chauvinistic sort, but calculated to inspire understanding of and commitment to the best principles in the American heritage.   By giving examples of  memorable writings of historic figures such as Abraham Lincoln, Mark Twain, and Harriet Beecher Stowe, the Guide helps to create a vision of the United States as a nation that is committed to equality, justice and freedom for all its citizens.

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Flexible Format

The "AMERIKIDS Learning History Guide" by its alternate format from textbooks allows teachers great flexibility in determining the emphasis and timing of their course content. The  Guide " facilitates future revisions by our company, and permits the assembly of information tailored to the local requirements of school districts in many states.

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Creative Assignments

The "AMERIKIDS Learning History Guide" provides examples of creative assignments, suggestions for significant questions and emphasis based on the content of lesson plans. A bibliography of supplementary readings and activities and ways to get involved with social causes are also included.

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Decision Making

Through an interactive experience, using technology, the student practices decision making, action taking skills and reflection on the resulting consequences. At the same time, The "AMERIKIDS Learning History Guide" can provide instructional materials for meeting the needs of less prepared, limited-English-proficient, gifted, or special education students.

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