A+dvanced Learning System

Age Range: 6-Adult
Platforms: PC and Mac - Stand alone, lab pack and network versions are available in single and district site license versions.
Medium: CD-ROM
Cost: Please call or email

Company: The American Education Corp.
Phone: 1-800-342-7587
Email: jebjr@amered.com

Description:

The Social Studies component of the A+dvanced Learning System consists of 8 groups of lessons for learning U.S. and world history, geography, economics, and government. The lesson groups are:

U. S. History I (Grade Levels 4-8)

Develops and strengthens knowledge of U. S. History to the Civil War. Includes European background, Spanish, French, and English exploration, England's rise to power, New England, Middle, and Southern colonies, colonial life, the American Revolution, early political parties, the Louisiana Purchase, westward movement, transportation and the Industrial Revolution, Texas independence, the Mexican War, and the slavery issue.

U. S. History II (Grade Levels 4-8)

Develops and strengthens knowledge of U. S. History after the Civil War. Covers the conditions that led to the Civil War, war strategies, the Emancipation Proclamation, reconstruction, life on the plains, the reform and change of the nation, U. S. imperialism, World War I, the Roaring Twenties, the Great Depression, World War II, the Holocaust, the cold war, the Korean War, the civil rights movement, the Vietnam war, the and Post-Vietnam era. Excellent essay questions. Over 40 lessons.

World History I (Grade Levels 6-9)

Develops and strengthens knowledge of World History to about 1600. Includes prehistory, ancient Egypt, ancient Middle East, India, and China, the Mediterranean civilizations, Greek legacy, ancient Rome, the Byzantine Empire, the Russians, Islam, the Middle Ages, the Irish and lessons with essay questions that relate math to everyday life.

World History II (Grade Levels 6-9)

Develops and strengthens knowledge of World History after the Reformation or 1600. Includes the expanding world, the American and French Revolutions, China, Japan, Asia, the Industrial Revolution, Socialism, science, arts and literature in the 1800s, the Romanov Dynasty, Latin America, British Reform, nationalism, German unification, imperialism, World War I, the Russian Revolution, World War II, the cold war, Asian wars, and new relationships. Excellent essay questions.

U. S. Geography (Grade Levels 4-8)

Develops geography skills by including geography tools, physical features of the U.S., the earth and its weather, the northeast, southeast, Great Lakes, plains, southwest, mountain, and Pacific regions, as well as the U.S. territories and national landmarks. Over thirty lessons with excellent essay questions.

World Geography (Grade Levels 6-9)

Develops knowledge of world geography by identifying geography tools, the physical features of the earth and its weather, and information about Asia, India, China, Japan, Africa including the elections in South Africa, the former European USSR, eastern, central, western, and northern Europe, the British Isles, Canada and the U.S., Central America, the West Indies, South America, and Oceania. Excellent essay questions and over thirty lessons.

Economics (Grade Levels 10-12)

Course Content (from Priority Academic Student Skills and National Curriculum Standards for Social Studies): Historical development of U.S. economic system, growth of industry in the U.S. effects of business cycle on the economy, economic beliefs that founded the development of economic system in U.S., the role of government in the economy, wise economic choices, the citizen as a producer and a consumer, major features of modified market economy, supply and demand, determining prices of goods and services, how money is used, international economic policies and benefits and problems, major economic systems of the world. Over thirty lessons.

Government (Grade Levels 10-12)

Course Content: (from Priority Academic Student Skills and National Curriculum Standards for Social Studies) : Historical and philosophical development of government, impact of government on citizens, how citizens can effect change in local, state, and national government, characteristics and functions of political parties, rights and responsibilities of citizens of the United States, citizen's responsibility to communities characteristics of local, state, and national governments and comparison of same to other governments, analysis of U.S. Constitution, important document of government of U.S. , role of executive, legislative, and judicial branches of government at local, state, and federal levels, separation of powers, checks and balances, democracy, the electoral process. Over thirty lessons.

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Howard J. Bender, Ph.D.
President
The Education Process Improvement Center, Inc.
P.O. Box 186
Riverdale, Maryland 20738
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