Adapting Courses for Different Age Groups

Be selective with the course elements you assign
Middle school students should strongly consider listening along with the audio as they read
Middle school students will want to select the courses typical for their age group (e.g., U.S. 1-2, rather than U.S. 3-4), and they may want to stretch one-semester courses across an entire year
Instructors/parents will want to preview the guided notes assignments to decide which pages to assign, and which to bypass
Instructors parents will want to preview each document lesson to decide which focus on the most accessible skills for the student
These students may want to utilize limited structure building exercises and rely primarily on traditional flashcard review for vocabulary study

These courses are designed for high school students; students in grades 9-12 should consider taking the course along our suggested Basic, Standard, or Advanced Tracks; here is a sample of those tracks from our US1 course

All users should bear in mind that these courses are built with two primary goals:
- 1. To help students learn more history—to help them develop a broad knowledge base about the most impactful times, places, and people from the past, a knowledge base they have stored in their memories and can recall to help them contextualize new information in real time (i.e., without offloading all of their basic recall to Google)
- 2. To help students develop skills for reading, thinking, discernment, and judgment that will serve them in the history classroom when they're constructing arguments or making decisions about the most compelling sources, but also outside of the history classroom in all the regular-life contexts where mature judgment and reflection are required

The broad goals are the same for all age groups, but the strategies for achieving them need to be adapted