Adventures in Law & History is a two-volume collection of lessons designed for upper elementary grades.

Volume I: Native Americans, the Spanish Frontier, and the Gold Rush.
Volume II: Coming to America, Colonial America, Revolutionary Era.

Each volume provides lesson sets in the historical eras with readings, role plays, simulations, and other interactive methods that engage young people in learning about democratic ideals and legal Constitutional issues such as due process, equal protection, rule of law, and rights and responsibilities. Both of the volumes also provide contemporary applications of the history, civics knowledge. and skills through a service-learning opportunity appropriate for elementary grades.

Developed with elementary teachers, this curriculum is widely used in Teaching American History partnerships to integrate civic concepts, skills, and dispositions into standards-based history-social science classes. In addition, lessons have been used by secondary students in cross-age service-learning activities. The curriculum is appropriate for ESL and sheltered-English students. The lessons can be offered separately or in sequence.

This program proves it's never too early to teach American students about their history, and to link such lessons to their own public service practices.

-CMS Review