Creator: Bill of Rights Institute | visit site
Grade Range: 8 - 11
Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness is a free digital textbook designed for high school American History or AP U.S. History classes. Information is provided through chronological units that include primary and secondary source materials. Short narratives are included in each chapter to present information in a personalized manner and use decision points for students to focus on how information learned fits into a larger narrative. Each unit has a culminating essay activity that assesses the chapter’s objectives. This digital textbook also offers tools for text highlighting, online notetaking, and text to speech. To access the textbook, use the link to register and access the materials through the OpenStax platform, <a href="/single.cfm?id=17525">reviewed here</a>.
In the Classroom
Take advantage of this free textbook to use for your American History curriculum or supplement your current teaching materials. Pick and choose text, source materials, or assessment information to enhance your curriculum. This text is a perfect addition for schools lacking up-to-date content or for use with distance learning. Use a curation tool such as Padlet, <a href="/single.cfm?id=10007">reviewed here</a>, to organize and share materials with students. Use the shelf option to create categories and organize them by videos, articles, primary source documents, etc., to make information easily accessible by your students. Encourage students to share their understanding of the content by creating videos, flyers, graphic images, and more using the tools found at Canva Edu, <a href="/single.cfm?id=15329">reviewed here</a>. Use the text to speech option to differentiate learning for students with disabilities and English Language Learners.
At Home
Share this digital textbook with your student to use as a supplemental resource to textbooks used in their school. Signup is for high school educators only, so you will need to ask your student’s teacher to sign up for you.
Tags
20th century, 1900s, 1800s, Teacher Utilities, 1700s, ebooks, 1600s, advanced placement,
Subjects
American History, Government/Civics: U.S, Social Studies, Social Studies,