World History Interactive High School Curricula for Homeschool
History is more than the story of past events—it’s the chronicle of people, their decisions, emotions, and viewpoints. Our award-winning World History Interactive brings a modern lens to history, based on the C3 Framework. Students explore history from multiple perspectives and gain valuable inquiry skills for college, careers, and civic responsibility.
Modern World History Homeschool Curricula
World History Interactive renders key historical moments relevant to 21st Century homeschool students through multiple perspectives; engaging primary sources, background reading, and immersion-based activities.
Empower students to see themselves and their world through past historical chapters.
Resources like Hook & Inspire Connections to Today, Quest Inquires, Project Imagine’s immersive activities, and multimedia teacher resource libraries help create connections to today’s issues and events.
Support all learners with differentiated resources and strategies.
World History Interactive features built-in resources to assist all students with challenging content. Savvas Realize Reader eTexts embed read-aloud audio and leveled lesson summaries. The Teacher's Edition offers scaffolding tools like ELL support and differentiated instructional resources.
Contextualize Learning with Immersive Activities.
Available through the digital World History Interactive program, Project Imagine’s unique primary sources and immersive activities build contextual knowledge and socio-emotional understanding.
Continually updated digital content & activities boost student engagement.
World History Interactive helps students continually make connections to real-world, compelling topics. Through immersive activities like role-plays, 360-degree virtual walks, and investigative Quest topic assignments to begin units, students can experience key points in history through the eyes of the people who lived it.
Homeschool Bundle Details
The bundle includes:
- Student Edition
- Primary Source and Reading Guide Workbook
- 1-year of student and teacher digital access to Savvas Realize, our online digital platform
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New High School World History Homeschool Program
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Connections to Today
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Differentiate Content
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Animate History
Connect students’ modern lives to historical stories
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Spark inquirySpark inquiry for students with an Essential Question for each topic.
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Make history personalMake history personal with My Story Video for students, available on Realize.
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Current events for every topicListenwise® resource features current events for every topic and new podcasts every day.
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Cultivate civic responsibilityAt the end of every topic, students Take Action on what they’ve learned.
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Hook & Inspire!Go online to access Hook & Inspire! Connections to Today, designed to connect the past and the present via pop culture, media, music, films, and more.
Differentiated content and instruction resources
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Magazine-style print Student EditionThe magazine-style Student Edition won’t overwhelm students. It comes to life in the Realize Reader™ eText, with digital highlighting and annotation tools.
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Easy-to-read highlightsThe lesson summaries (available in Spanish and English) with audio are easy-to-read highlights for students to review or preview content.
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Leveled lesson summariesFor struggling readers, the leveled lesson summary (available in Spanish and English) is written two reading levels below.
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Easily searchable digital resources
Savvas Realize® offers a treasure trove of additional, easily searchable digital resources to customize your lessons and create multi-media assignment playlists. Choose from graphic organizers, supreme court cases, primary sources, biographies, atlases, and more.
Rich primary sources, inquiry-based lessons, and immersive activities
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Supports the C3 FrameworkEach topic helps to foster curiosity by opening with a Quest Topic Inquiry that uses primary sources and supports the C3 Framework. Quest activities include whole-class discussions, document-based writing assessments, and project-based learning.
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Close reading strategiesA Primary Source and Reading Guide workbook includes close reading strategies for both the textbook and primary sources.
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Comparing ViewpointsComparing Viewpoints pairs primary sources together around one event.
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Project Imagine® immersive activities
Project Imagine® immersive activities enable students to take on the role of a person in history and experience how historical events affect ordinary people’s lives.
Connect to Students’ Lives with World History Interactive for Homeschool
Connections to Today is a teacher-resource website with frequently updated content, like this video comparing the Black Plague with COVID-19, for connecting the past with the present.
Award-winning Online Learning Management System
Savvas Realize® provides access to all the myWorld Interactive for World History Interactive program’s digital resources and downloadable, editable print materials to meet every educational standard.
World History Interactive Program Frequently Asked Questions
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What is the World History Interactive program?World History Interactive for grades 9-12 is a print and digital student-centered program with robust teacher support. They focus on engaging students by connecting historic content to students’ lives today, a foundation of inquiry-based learning, engaging digital activities, and more.
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What is available to purchase?
The program is made up of the following components:
- Student Edition (digital or print) features a magazine-style layout to increase readability with a 50/50 text-to-visual balance. The digital student edition has embedded leveled lesson summaries to meet the needs of all students.
- Primary Source and Reading Guide Workbook (in print or digital) contains multiple primary sources per topic for additional analysis, as well as worksheets for each lesson designed to help students’ reading comprehension.
- Interactive Digital Courses, hosted on Savvas Realize™, include robust digital tools that give homeschool parents and teachers flexibility to use a digital, print, or blended format in their classrooms. Parents and teachers can customize the program to rearrange content, upload their own content, add links to online media, and edit resources and assessments.
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Is the World History Interactive program inquiry based?
U.S. & World History Interactive are built on the C3 Framework for inquiry in social studies. Each topic and lesson follows the Connect-Investigate-Synthesize-Demonstrate learning model. Each topic also contains a Quest Topic Inquiry assignment, featuring project-based assessment such as civic discussion, document-based writing, or a team project.
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What differentiation support is available in the World History Interactive program?
The program contains lesson summaries in English and Spanish at two different reading levels. The Realize Reader eText contains a leveled lesson summary with audio at point of use within each lesson. Topic Tests are also delivered at three different levels. In addition, parents and teachers can assign short lesson-flipped video summaries to visual and auditory learners.
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How do I sign up for a digital demo of World History Interactive?Click here to sign up for a demo.