Kentucky myWorld Interactive American History Middle School

Kentucky myWorld Interactive American History promotes critical thinking, problem solving, evidence-based reasoning, and communications skills. This program includes:

100% coverage of Kentucky Academic Standards for Social Studies
Inquiry Practices in every Topic
Strong reading and writing support
Diverse primary sources and perspectives

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Student–Centered Middle School American History Inspired by You

Kentucky myWorld Interactive American History encourages students to explore their world, expand their thinking, and engage in civic responsibility.

Inquiry-Based Learning

Kentucky myWorld Interactive American History helps teachers create short term and long term active learning experiences. Quest Inquiry, Active Classroom Strategies, and the Active Journal all provide engaging pathways to active citizenship.

Literacy Support In Every Topic

Along with the robust Language Arts Handbook, each lesson in Kentucky myWorld Interactive features built-in literacy instruction. Along with mastering social studies, students learn to read closely, analyze primary sources, and communicate well-defended ideas.

Meet Kentucky Academic Standards

Kentucky myWorld Interactive provides full coverage of the latest Kentucky Academic Standards for Social Studies. Celebrate your state with Kentucky-aligned content on Savvas Realize.

Flexible, Searchable Digital Content

Savvas Realize® makes it easy for you to search by Kentucky Academic Standards for Social Studies.

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Kentucky American History Curriculum for Middle Grades

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Inquiry-Based, Student Centered Social Studies
Differentiated Resources
Flexible Classrooms

Inquiry-Based, Student-Centered Social Studies

Instructional Design

myWorld Interactive’s instructional design balances direct instruction; small group interaction; hands-on practice; robust resources; and scaffolded reading support.
Active Classroom Strategies

These low-prep, high engagement activities will have your students working together as they dissect historical facts, deeply understand primary sources, build arguments, and grow as a community.
Project-Based Quests

myWorld Interactive includes long-term, end-of-chapter activities that provide rich, inquiry-based experiences.
Voices and Views

Experience Voices and Views is a collection of curated multimedia content to engage students and highlight diverse topics of study. You will also find a variety of primary sources and teaching strategies that will help students find a sense of belonging and encourage analysis and discussion of multiple perspectives.

Differentiated Resources to Easily Reach Every Student

Flexible Teaching Resources

myWorld Interactive enables teachers to quickly find and assign content suited to individual student, small group, or the whole class needs.
Active Journal

Build reading resilience with the Active Journal workbook, which works alongside the student edition to help students practice critical reading and writing skills.
Immersive Digital Tools

Dynamic multimedia resources make content accessible and engaging for every student including chapter and lesson videos, image galleries, interactive maps, 3-D models, and simulations.
Embedded Reading Support
In every lesson, there is point-of-use literacy support:

Get Ready to Read

Take Notes

Academic and Content Vocabulary

Video Lesson Summaries

Embedded Audio

Translation Tool

Flexible Classrooms

Multiple Learning Paths
Options accommodate every teacher, classroom, and schedule:

Comprehensive path: Teaches a comprehensive social studies curriculum that balances content, activities, and literary connections.

Activity-based path: Engages students in hands-on activities and inquiry-based projects in a source-rich, real-world creative classroom.

Content and literacy path: Students master content through engaging readings, primary source texts and images, and writing exercises.
Customizable Content

Rearrange chapter and lesson resources, edit program resources and assessments, and add your own curricula and links.

Engaging content and time-saving classroom-management tools come together in the teacher-friendly Savvas Realize LMS, included with your program.

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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. Access to teacher and student editions of Realize® is free with the cost of the program.

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.

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Kentucky myWorld Interactive Frequently Asked Questions

What are the program components for Kentucky myWorld Interactive American History?
myWorld Interactive American History is made up of the following program components:

Teacher Guide: Print Teacher Edition with full lesson support and integrated ELD Support.

Active Journal Answer Key: Answer key for the student Active Journal.

Online Teacher Resources: Digital course with Celebrating Kentucky and Kentucky Academic Standards for Social Studies at point of use. Includes Experience Voices and Views, Teacher Resources and blackline masters for additional support with EL strategies, close reading, and skills instruction.

Student Edition Hardcover Text: Includes all core content lessons aligned to Kentucky Academic Standards, analysis skill lessons, numerous primary sources, and an English Language Arts Handbook.

Student Active Journal: Student consumable notebook, including support for completing the Quest, close reading and note taking support, vocabulary practice, and writing workshop.

Student Online Digital Course: Full Digital Course with dynamic digital Interactives and links to the Student eText for narrative content.
What type of Reading Support is in Kentucky myWorld Interactive World History?
Academic and Content Vocabulary are defined in context to help students develop meaning while they read.

Get Ready to Read infuses pre-reading strategies, guiding questions, and vocabulary support connected to the Active Journal to support student comprehension.

The Reading Check focuses on student comprehension, including the ability to read and understand visuals.

Text and image Primary Sources are embedded throughout the lesson to give voice to both the famous and ordinary people of history.

The Lesson Check monitors student mastery of reading skills and Social Studies content.

Practice Vocabulary is included with every lesson in the Active Journal. A great support for English Learners!

The Writing Workshop extends literary connections. Students practice expository and narrative writing forms related to the content.
What type of teaching ideas, strategies and inspiration are in Kentucky myWorld Interactive American History?
Active Classroom Strategies

Chapter Assessments

Chapter at a Glance

Citizenship Lessons

Common Misconceptions

Complete Lesson Plans

Critical Thinking & Writing Strategies

Curriculum Connections: Literacy, Geography, Math, and Science

Differentiated Instruction

Integrated ELD Strategies

Literacy Skills Lessons

Pacing Guides

Primary Source Lessons

Review Strategies

Visual Review Strategies

Vocabulary Strategies

Writer’s Workshop

Writing Activities
How do I sign up for a digital demo of Kentucky myWorld Interactive American History?

myWorld Interactive American History digital courseware on Savvas Realize™ includes robust digital tools that give teachers 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.

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Kentucky myWorld Interactive American History Middle School