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1950s: Rebuild!
SKU BOX-195 Category Tag

1950s: Rebuild!

$59.95

Inside this box:

  • Learn about the rebuilding of Europe, Japan, and the USSR after World War II
  • Learn about the Cold War 
  • Learn about revolutions in Latin America and learn to play Cuban dominoes
  • Learn about the consumerism in the United States during the 1950s
  • Learn about the Korean War and play with a popular Korean toy 
  • Learn the connection between art and industrialization and then make your own Calder-style mobile.
  • Learn about The Highway Men, a group of Black landscape arts in Florida

 

Our Young Adult box features articles about:
    • Apartheid in South Africa 
    • Abstract Expressionism
Description

Continue your study of Modern World History with 1950s: Rebuild! This comprehensive, globally-centered interactive history lesson immerses learners in the people, events, and ideas that shaped the decade of the 1950s, providing hands-on activities and engaging materials. This box is part of our Modern History Curriculum Series.

Inside this box:

  • Explore the post World War II world and learn about:
    • How Europe, Japan, and the USSR Rebuilt after the war
    • The Cold War tensions between the United States and the USSR and how this led to revolutions in Latin America
    • Consumerism and suburban life in America during the 1950s
    • Why Korea is considered a proxy war between the United States and the USSR and how it ended up a divided country
    • What partition means and how it was applied to India and Pakistan, and Israel and Palestine
    • The Highway Men, Black artists in Florida who challenged the rules of segregation 
    • Alexander Calder and the role of industrialization in art

 

Our Young Adult box features articles about:

  • The creation of an apartheid state in South Africa
  • Explore Abstract Expressionism with Jackson Pollock

 

Who Is This For?

This box is ideal for:

  • Homeschool families seeking a secular, global history curriculum
  • Teachers supplementing modern history in the classroom
  • Co-ops and micro-schools focusing on project-based learning
  • Families using Charlotte Mason, Classical, or Unit Study approaches

Recommended for ages 13+ (Youth) and 16+ (Young Adult version).

Discover the 1950s today and continue your study of the modern era!



Weight 2.5 lbs
Dimensions 13 × 13 × 3 in
Age Range

Young Adult, Youth
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1950s: Rebuild!
SKU BOX-195 Category Tag

1910s: Steaming Towards War

Dive into Modern History with 1910s: Steaming Towards War! This comprehensive globally-centered interactive history lesson immerses learners in the people, events, and ideas that shaped decade of the 1910s, providing hands-on activities and engaging materials. This box is part of our Modern History Curriculum Series.

Inside this box:

  • Explore the cause and effects of World War I
  • Learn about all of the great steamships of the early twentieth century and the sinking of Titanic
  • Learn about the Chinese and Russian revolutions and make your own faberge- style egg
  • Learn about medical advancements and plastic surgery during World War I and learn to suture
  • Learn about the suffrage movement and the women who made it possible, then make suffragette recipes.
  • Learn about the global flu pandemic that occurred in the 1910s 
  • Our ‘Own Voices’ article focuses on The Pale, a settlement where only Jews could live in Imperial Russia

 

Our Young Adult box features articles about:

  • The Eugenics movement
  • The connection between political movements of the 1910s and a form of art known as Socialist Realism

Who Is This For?

This box is ideal for:

  • Homeschool families seeking a secular, global history curriculum

  • Teachers supplementing modern history in the classroom

  • Co-ops and micro-schools focusing on project-based learning

  • Families using Charlotte Mason, Classical, or Unit Study approaches

Recommended for ages 13+ (Youth) and 16+ (Young Adult version).

Discover the 1910s today and continue your study of the modern era!

 

Weight 2.54 lbs
Dimensions 12 × 9 × 3 in
Age Range

Young Adult, Youth
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