Pacific Northwest History Curriculum
Our standard Pacific Northwest History: From a Christian, Creation-based, Young Earth, Apologetics Worldview was written for grades 6-8 and is about a 6th grade reading level. It was used in a pilot group with 15 children grades Kindergarten-High School, and it worked well for all grades. This curriculum is non-denominational and works well for families of most Christian faiths. The pilot group included families from a variety of religious backgrounds, including: Catholic, Episcopal, Baptist, Seventh-day Adventist, and other Protestant faiths.
What You Need:
There are several different kit options to meet the needs of different families. You can click on each image below to go to the store page for that product.
Lesson Books
Two Lesson Books make up the core curriculum. These have over 500 full-color pages of content spanning from creation and the worldwide flood through the present day. Some families choose to just get these two books.
Basic Kit
The Basic Kit includes the two Lesson Books and a Student Workbook. The Workbook is over 100 full color pages and includes worksheets for each chapter. Worksheets vary and include fill-in-the-blank, matching, short answer, and True/False questions. Map work is also included for many chapters.
Full Kit
The Full Kit includes everything in the Basic Kit plus what you need to add hands-on learning to the curriculum. There is at least one hands-on activity for each of the 24 chapters of the Pacific Northwest History curriculum. The Full Kit includes the Hands-on Activities Book, a game that goes with the Fur Trade chapters, and a set of cutouts for 7 of the activities. Cutouts include: 4 cardboard wheels, an embossed cardboard longhouse, an embossed cardboard wagon on a raft, and silhouettes of a ship, tepee, lantern, and tractor. Activities include science experiments, watercolor and acrylic paintings, crafts, and popsicle stick engineering projects.
Deluxe Kit
The Deluxe Kit includes everything in the Full Kit plus a beautiful Lesson Tracker Wooden Wall Map. The map has 24 pins that go with the 24 chapters of the Pacific Northwest History Curriculum. At the end of each chapter, there is a place to put a pin in a location that was discussed that chapter. It helps give kids something to look forward to at the end of each chapter.
Map is approximately 8″ high and 10″ wide.
Family Kit
The Family Kit includes everything in the Deluxe Kit plus additional sets of workbooks, cutouts, and consumable Activity Book pages for each additional child at a discount.
Workbooks for the Family Kit can be chosen for each child and include the following options:
1. Standard Workbook
2. 8th Grade – High School Essays, Tests, and Grading
3. 2nd-5th Grade Workbook*
4. K-1 Workbook*
*The younger workbooks were designed for the Elementary Pacific Northwest History curriculum, but they can be adapted for use with the Standard curriculum. However, these workbook currently will only cover Lesson Book #1 of the Standard curriculum. There are plans to add additional elementary workbooks for Lesson Book #2, but these are not out yet.
High School Add-on
There is enough content and it is in-depth enough for a high school credit in Pacific Northwest History. It is recommended to add 3-4 essays and tests at the high school level. This can be done using the 8th Grade – High School Essays, Tests, and Grading book. This book includes essay suggestions at three writing levels: basic, standard, and advanced. The basic essay suggestions are for a paragraph. The standard are for a 5-paragraph paper, and the advanced are for more advanced essays, such as Compare/Contrast, Character Trait, Persuasive, Literature Analysis, etc. Also included are instructions on how to write these essays and grading scales. There are 8 tests included, which is about every 3 chapters.
There are two options for high school credit:
Complete the Student Workbook and tests and add 3-4 essays
If students are advanced, they may prefer to skip the Student Workbook, complete tests, and write extra essays instead of the Workbook
Novels Add-on
A reading schedule is included in the Student Workbook for extra novels that to well with the curriculum. Some of these novels can only be purchased digitally, but these four novels are available as paperback add-ons They are: Bound for Oregon, The Captain’s Dog, Thunder Rolling on the Mountains, and The Fate of the Yellow Woodbee.
