Newberry Academy
History Curriculum
History from Kindergarten through 12th Grade designed to help students understand people, places, events, ideas, and the connections that shape societies over time.
History That Helps Students Understand the Bigger Picture
Newberry Academy History is designed to help students do more than remember names and dates.
Students build chronological understanding, geographic awareness, historical vocabulary, cause-and-effect reasoning, evidence-based thinking, and the ability to connect events and ideas across time.
Choose a History Course
Select your student's grade to view the full History course, course details, and available formats.
Kindergarten History & Science
Kindergarten combines History and Science in one book, giving young learners an age-appropriate introduction to people, communities, places, the natural world, and early observation skills.
View Kindergarten History & Science1st Grade History
Introduce students to people, places, communities, maps, simple timelines, and the idea that events happen in sequence over time.
View 1st Grade History2nd Grade History
Build geographic awareness, historical vocabulary, sequence, comparison, and an understanding of how people and communities change over time.
View 2nd Grade History3rd Grade History
Develop stronger world-history understanding through geography, chronology, cultural study, important events, and connections among people and places.
View 3rd Grade History4th Grade History
Strengthen U.S. History understanding through chronology, geography, major events, important people, cause and effect, and historical evidence.
View 4th Grade History5th Grade History
Prepare for middle school History by examining events in greater depth and strengthening chronology, geographic reasoning, evidence, and historical explanation.
View 5th Grade History6th Grade History
Begin middle school History with more detailed study of chronology, geography, culture, historical evidence, and the development of societies.
View 6th Grade History7th Grade History
Strengthen historical reasoning through comparison, context, cause and effect, geography, evidence, and more detailed written explanation.
View 7th Grade History8th Grade History
Prepare for high school History through deeper analysis, source interpretation, historical argument, geographic context, and independent study.
View 8th Grade History9th Grade History
Begin high school History with stronger emphasis on historical context, evidence, interpretation, comparison, and well-supported written analysis.
View 9th Grade History10th Grade History
Continue building historical analysis through source evaluation, comparison, chronology, cause and effect, and the study of broader historical developments.
View 10th Grade History11th Grade History
Develop stronger historical judgment through evidence, context, interpretation, geographic understanding, competing perspectives, and careful written reasoning.
View 11th Grade History12th Grade History
Complete high school History with mature analysis of evidence, context, causation, perspective, interpretation, and independent academic work.
View 12th Grade HistoryWhat Students Practice in History
Designed for Homeschool Learning
History lessons are designed to provide the instruction, context, practice, and review students need without depending on daily internet lessons, YouTube videos, or QR-code instruction.
Secular History Curriculum
Newberry Academy History is secular. Bible instruction is not included in the History curriculum. Bible curriculum is available separately as an elective for families who choose it.
Want More History & Humanities?
Students can expand beyond their core History course with electives such as Anthropology, Civics, Geography, and Vietnam Era.
Explore History & Humanities ElectivesHistory Is Included in Core Bundles
Save by purchasing History together with the other core subjects in a grade-level curriculum bundle.
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