• Updated and revised 2025!

• Develops literacy, vocabulary!

• Explores the American & French Revolutions!

• Hands-on activities make history relevant to the student!

• Develops study in a self-determined manner!

• Lesson plans are complete and ready to use!  Start now!

I've been homeschooling since the very beginning and my kids (13, 10, 7, and 2) have never seen the inside of a school. But they have seen every type of curriculum under the sun as I would frantically flit from one thing to the other in search of that elusive "something" we could all be equally passionate about. I have used STEPS for various courses over the years but the last 2 days we were able to have our very first All-Steps School Days (minus the math, of course).

What I know for sure in this short time is: this is something special. The kids say it's the most interesting school has ever been for them (my 13yo especially would become very frustrated by the "pointless" questions and projects other programs would ask of him), and I've been enjoying the lively conversation that Steps is sparking between my school-aged kids and myself. I am so glad I took the plunge and converted entirely to Steps curriculum. What a relief to have finally found "it". STEPS is absolutely perfect for us.

And you can add this: I woke up this morning (next day) to find my 10 and 13 yo boys already up and working through their next lessons independently. Big smiles here!  S.R., Homeschooling Mother of 4
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This course develops literacy, vocabulary, critical thinking and study skills, as well as a providing a thorough introduction to the American and French Revolutions, where much of our current world was shaped.  Ready to have your student challenged and excited by history and his place in it?  Ready to see your student thinking for himself?   The big ideas and activities are here and ready, in complete daily lesson plans.  This course can help!
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For history students ages 9-10 (and some older students). History for Step 3 students, ages 9-10 who read fairly well, and older students still developing literacy.  

Great change in the world, as first the American colonists separate from England, then the French poor overthrow their wealthy masters, and finally, the machine age changes every life. Perhaps the most explosive period of change in human history! George Washington to Napoleon, the great art of Beethoven and Voltaire, a period of history that will galvanize the student!

The course specializes, as do all STEPS courses, in developing the students understandings and ability to think and form their own ideas and opinions. Additionally, as with all our history courses, this one is structured to increase the student's vocabulary and understanding of geography, as well as of history.

19 lessons, three tests and answer guides.

Concepts covered in this course include:

• Wars in North America prior to the American Revolution

• The American Revolution

• The American founding fathers

• The American Declaration of Independence

• The American Constitution

• The French Revolution

• Voltaire and other French writers and philosophers

• The end of kings in France

• France after the revolution, government and the life of the people

• The French Declaration of the Rights of Man

• The rise of Napoleon

• The early campaigns of Napoleon

• Romanticism in Art

• Beethoven

• Napoleon's failure in Russia

• The Louisiana Purchase