Florida U.S. History Interactive High School Curricula
Florida U.S. History Interactive brings a modern lens to social studies content based on the Florida Next Generation Sunshine State Standards (NGSSS) and prepares students with valuable critical thinking and inquiry skills that will help them succeed on Florida assessments.
Our award-winning Florida U.S. History Interactive helps Florida students:
- view history through a modern lens, based on Florida standards.
- explore history from multiple perspectives.
- gain valuable inquiry skills for college, careers, and civic responsibility.
U.S. History Curricula for Florida
Florida U.S. History Interactive renders key historical moments relevant to 21st Century students through multiple perspectives; engaging primary sources, background reading, and immersion-based activities.
Empower students to see themselves and their world through past historical chapters.
Resources like Hook & Inspire Connections to Today, Quest Inquires, Project Imagine’s immersive activities, and multimedia teacher resource libraries help create connections to today’s issues and events.
Support all learners with differentiated resources and strategies.
Florida U.S. History Interactive features built-in resources to assist all students with challenging content. Savvas Realize Reader eTexts embed read-aloud audio and leveled lesson summaries The Teacher Edition offers scaffolding tools like ELL support and differentiated instructional resources.
Contextualize Learning with Immersive Activities.
Available through the digital Florida U.S. Interactive program, Project Imagine’s unique primary sources and immersive activities build contextual knowledge and socio-emotional understanding.
Continually updated digital content and activities boost student engagement.
Florida U.S. History Interactive helps students continually make connections to real-world, compelling topics. Through immersive activities like role-plays, 360-degree virtual walks, and investigative Quest topic assignments to begin units, students can experience key points in history through the eyes of the people who lived it.
Modern U.S. History Curricula
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Built for Florida
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Connections to Today
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Differentiated Content
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Animate History
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Built for Today
Built-in Florida NGSSS instruction prepares all students for success.
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Inspire TomorrowBoost inquiry and active participation for every Florida student.
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Realize ResultsEasy-to-use digital resources spark meaningful learning.
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Spark inquiry
Spark inquiry for students with an Essential Question for each topic.
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Make history personalMake history personal with My Story Video for students, available on Realize.
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Connect your lessonsAccess premium Listenwise® current events for every topic and get new podcasts every day.
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Cultivate civic responsibilityCultivate civic responsibility. At the end of every topic, students Take Action on what they’ve learned.
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Connect the past to the presentGo online to access Hook & Inspire! Connections to Today, designed to connect the past and the present via pop culture, media, music, films, and more.
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Magazine-style print Student Edition
The magazine-style print Student Edition won’t overwhelm students. It comes to life in the Realize Reader™ eText, with digital highlighting and annotation tools.
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Easy-to-read highlights
The lesson summaries (available in Spanish and English) with audio are easy-to-read highlights for students to review or preview content.
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Leveled lesson summaries
For struggling readers, the leveled lesson summary (available in Spanish and English) is written two reading levels below. You can also access the leveled lesson summary.
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Assess student learning
Assess student learning with a lesson quiz that provides remediation suggestions for students.
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Easily searchable digital resources
Savvas Realize® offers a treasure trove of additional, easily searchable digital resources to customize your lessons and create multi-media assignment playlists. Choose from graphic organizers, supreme court cases, primary sources, biographies, atlases, and more.
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Quest Topic InquiryEach topic helps to foster curiosity by opening with a Quest Topic Inquiry that uses primary sources and supports the Florida standards. Quest activities include whole-class discussions, document-based writing assessments, and project-based learning.
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Close reading strategies
A Primary Source and Reading Guide workbook includes close reading strategies for both the textbook and primary sources.
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Comparing ViewpointsComparing Viewpoints pairs primary sources together around one event.
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Project Imagine® immersive activities
Project Imagine® immersive activities enable students to take on the role of a person in history and experience how historical events affect ordinary people’s lives.
Savvas Realize® moves learning forward to better serve each student, teacher, and school district in Florida.
Engaging content and time-saving classroom management tools come together in the teacher-friendly Savvas Realize® LMS, included with your program.
Savvas Realize® brings our award-winning content to life in an exciting digital experience that students love. For teachers and admins, it includes valuable classroom-management tools like auto-rostering, single-sign-on, and available integrations with many top K-12 LMSs.
Preview your week ahead, adjust your daily lesson plans, review student and class progress, build and share lessons with your own content, or easily search for differentiated resources to inspire more “lightbulb” moments for your students. Realize’s single-sign-on platform makes it all easy and manageable.
Make logging into your Realize dashboard an essential daily activity–just like checking your school email and Google Classroom accounts–to get a clear, organized path to your learning goals.
U.S. History Interactive Program Frequently Asked Questions
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What is the Florida U.S. History Interactive program?Florida U.S. History Interactive for grades 9-12 is a print and digital student-centered program with robust teacher support. They focus on engaging students by connecting historic content to students’ lives today, a foundation of inquiry-based learning, engaging digital activities, and more.
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What print and digital resources are available with Florida U.S. History Interactive?
The program consists of the following components:
- Florida Student Edition (digital or print) features a magazine-style layout to increase readability with a 50/50 text-to-visual balance. The digital student edition has embedded leveled lesson summaries to meet the needs of all students.
- Florida Teacher’s Edition (digital or print) includes wrap-around pages that provide direct instruction and teaching suggestions to engage students. Planning pages for each topic and lesson make implementation and pacing easy for teachers. Also includes Active Classroom Strategies and ELL/SEL support.
- Florida Interactive Digital Courses, hosted on Savvas Realize®, include robust digital tools that give teachers the flexibility to use a digital, print, or blended format in their classrooms. Teachers can customize the program to rearrange content, upload their own content, add links to online media, and edit resources and assessments.
- Florida Primary Source and Reading Guide Workbook (in print or digital) contains multiple primary sources per topic for additional analysis, as well as worksheets for each lesson designed to help students’ reading comprehension.
- Florida End-of-Course Test Prep Workbook provides practice and preparation for the high-stakes Florida exam.
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Is the Florida U.S. History Interactive program inquiry-based?Florida U.S. History Interactive is built for inquiry in social studies. Each topic contains a Quest Topic Inquiry assignment, featuring project-based assessment such as civic discussion, document-based writing, or a team project.
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What differentiation support is available in the Florida U.S. History Interactive program?
The program contains lesson summaries in English and Spanish at two different reading levels. The Realize Reader eText contains a leveled lesson summary with audio at point of use within each lesson. Topic Tests are also delivered at three different levels. In addition, teachers can assign short lesson-flipped video summaries to visual and auditory learners.
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How do I sign up for a digital demo of either Florida U.S. History Interactive?Florida U.S. History Interactive digital courseware on Savvas Realize® includes robust digital tools that give teachers the flexibility to use a digital, print, or blended format in their classrooms. Teachers can customize the program to rearrange content, upload their own content, add links to online media, and edit resources and assessments. Program-specific resources, flexible agnostic resources, and assessments are available in one location for easy lesson planning and presentation. Contact your Account Manager for demo access.
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