In this course you’ll encounter interactive maps and 3D simulations that will require you to be a detective—uncovering information and exploring historical problems using prior knowledge and context clues to both ask and answer questions. Meaningful feedback will guide you to understanding.

This course utilizes a discovery pedagogy meaning, students will cultivate their knowledge of U.S. history through guided discovery. To comprehend the complex and intriguing history of the United States, students examine topics and concepts through narratives, primary and secondary sources. They draw their own conclusions through questioning and immersing themselves in past events. For example, rather than reading a textbook entry on the causes of war, students use interactive maps to answer questions that draw on their prior knowledge and build an understanding using new information to come to construct determinations. Likewise, students move beyond rote facts and definitions and read stories about depression-era characters and then determine how they benefited from the relief, recovery and reform measures of the New Deal.