History Through Time for Ages 8 to 11 Course

What you will learn in 2 lessons

1. 1

   Explorers and Reformers

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   The child finds out why sailors set out to find new sea routes, what happened when Europeans met the peoples of the Americas, Africa and Asia, and how printing, new art and new ideas about the Church changed Europe.

   6 learning goals

   What you will learn

   1. 1.Find out why sailors set out and how they found their way
   2. 2.Follow the great voyages of discovery
   3. 3.Understand what happened when Europeans met the peoples of the Americas
   4. 4.See how trade connected the world, for better and for worse
   5. 5.Discover how art, inventions and printing changed Europe
   6. 6.Understand how reformers and rulers changed Europe
2. 2

   World Wars and the Holocaust

   The child finds out why two world wars happened, what they meant for soldiers and families, how Hitler and the Nazis persecuted and murdered Jews and other groups, and how the wars ended and are remembered.

   5 learning goals

   What you will learn

   1. 1.Find out why the First World War happened and what it was like
   2. 2.Understand how Hitler and the Nazis took power in Germany
   3. 3.Follow the main events of the Second World War
   4. 4.Learn how the Nazis persecuted and murdered Europe's Jews
   5. 5.Explain how the Second World War ended and how we remember the world wars