Grade 4 History & Geography
A free Grade 4 course from the PGAMO Free K–12 School, built on Core Knowledge History and Geography. Units: Using Maps, World Mountains, Medieval Europe, Medieval Islamic Empires, Early and Medieval African Kingdoms, Dynasties of China, The American Revolution, The United States Constitution, Early Presidents, American Reformers, Understanding Civics.
Every lesson has the chapter’s pages to read right on screen, the Big Question, words to know, talk-it-over questions with answers for the teacher, and activity pages to print. Each unit ends with a short quiz, and every unit has a printable study pack for learning offline.
This course is based on an original work of the Core Knowledge® Foundation (www.coreknowledge.org) made available through licensing under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. This does not in any way imply that the Core Knowledge Foundation endorses this work. PGAMO added the lesson pages, study packs and quizzes layout, and shares them under the same license. CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 · Core Knowledge History and Geography. Free for everyone — this course may never be sold.
Features
- 104 lessons in 11 units
- The books’ pages right in each lesson
- Unit quizzes
- Printable offline study packs
Target audiences
- Grade 4 students
- Homeschool families and co-ops
Requirements
- Nothing to buy — every book is included free
- A parent or teacher to read and talk with younger students
Curriculum
- 12 Sections
- 105 Lessons
- 36 Weeks
- Start here1
- Unit 1: Using Maps6
- Unit 2: World Mountains5
- Unit 3: Medieval Europe22
- 4.1Chapter 1: Changing Times30 Minutes
- 4.2Chapter 2: The Not-So-Dark Ages30 Minutes
- 4.3Chapter 3: Two Churches30 Minutes
- 4.4Chapter 4: Prayer and Work30 Minutes
- 4.5Chapter 5: Charlemagne30 Minutes
- 4.6Chapter 6: A Feudal Society30 Minutes
- 4.7Chapter 7: To the Manor Born30 Minutes
- 4.8Chapter 8: Life in a Castle30 Minutes
- 4.9Chapter 9: Days of a Knight30 Minutes
- 4.10Chapter 10: A Serf and His Turf30 Minutes
- 4.11Chapter 11: City Life30 Minutes
- 4.12Chapter 12: Women in the Middle Ages30 Minutes
- 4.13Chapter 13: William the Conqueror30 Minutes
- 4.14Chapter 14: Henry II30 Minutes
- 4.15Chapter 15: Thomas Becket30 Minutes
- 4.16Chapter 16: Eleanor of Aquitaine30 Minutes
- 4.17Chapter 17: Magna Carta30 Minutes
- 4.18Chapter 18: A New Kind of Government30 Minutes
- 4.19Chapter 19: The Hundred Years’ War30 Minutes
- 4.20Chapter 20: Joan of Arc30 Minutes
- 4.21Chapter 21: The Black Death30 Minutes
- 4.22Unit 3 quiz: Medieval Europe20 Minutes25 Questions
- Unit 4: Medieval Islamic Empires6
- Unit 5: Early and Medieval African Kingdoms9
- 6.1Chapter 1: The Geographic Setting30 Minutes
- 6.2Chapter 2: The Kingdoms of Kush and Aksum30 Minutes
- 6.3Chapter 3: Trans-Sahara Trade30 Minutes
- 6.4Chapter 4: Ghana, Land of Gold30 Minutes
- 6.5Chapter 5: Mali and Sundiata Keita30 Minutes
- 6.6Chapter 6: Mansa Musa and His Pilgrimage30 Minutes
- 6.7Chapter 7: Songhai and Askia Muhammad30 Minutes
- 6.8Chapter 8: The Travels of Ibn Battuta30 Minutes
- 6.9Unit 5 quiz: Early and Medieval African Kingdoms20 Minutes19 Questions
- Unit 6: Dynasties of China11
- 7.1Chapter 1: The First Emperor30 Minutes
- 7.2Chapter 2: The Han Dynasty30 Minutes
- 7.3Chapter 3: Wu Zhao30 Minutes
- 7.4Chapter 4: The Tang Dynasty30 Minutes
- 7.5Chapter 5: The Peddler’s Curse30 Minutes
- 7.6Chapter 6: Town and Country30 Minutes
- 7.7Chapter 7: The Mongol Invasions30 Minutes
- 7.8Chapter 8: Kublai Khan and Marco Polo30 Minutes
- 7.9Chapter 9: The Forbidden City30 Minutes
- 7.10Chapter 10: The Last Dynasty30 Minutes
- 7.11Unit 6 quiz: Dynasties of China20 Minutes20 Questions
- Unit 7: The American Revolution21
- 8.1Chapter 1: Meet the Colonists30 Minutes
- 8.2Chapter 2: If You Had Lived in the Colonies30 Minutes
- 8.3Chapter 3: The Rights of Englishmen30 Minutes
- 8.4Chapter 4: Learning Hard Lessons30 Minutes
- 8.5Chapter 5: The French and Indian War30 Minutes
- 8.6Chapter 6: The Quarrel with Britain Begins30 Minutes
- 8.7Chapter 7: The Stamp Act Crisis30 Minutes
- 8.8Chapter 8: Parliament Stumbles Again30 Minutes
- 8.9Chapter 9: A Change in Thinking30 Minutes
- 8.10Chapter 10: A Tea Party in Boston30 Minutes
- 8.11Chapter 11: The Colonies Resist30 Minutes
- 8.12Chapter 12: The Fighting Begins30 Minutes
- 8.13Chapter 13: Preparing for War30 Minutes
- 8.14Chapter 14: The Great Declaration30 Minutes
- 8.15Chapter 15: A Discouraging Start30 Minutes
- 8.16Chapter 16: Raising America’s Spirits30 Minutes
- 8.17Chapter 17: Saratoga30 Minutes
- 8.18Chapter 18: Valley Forge30 Minutes
- 8.19Chapter 19: Fighting Shifts to the South30 Minutes
- 8.20Chapter 20: The World Turned Upside Down30 Minutes
- 8.21Unit 7 quiz: The American Revolution20 Minutes17 Questions
- Unit 8: The United States Constitution11
- 9.1Chapter 1: The Idea of Self-Rule30 Minutes
- 9.2Chapter 2: New Constitutions for the States30 Minutes
- 9.3Chapter 3: The Articles of Confederation30 Minutes
- 9.4Chapter 4: Planning a New Constitution30 Minutes
- 9.5Chapter 5: Waiting in Philadelphia30 Minutes
- 9.6Chapter 6: Some Major Decisions30 Minutes
- 9.7Chapter 7: Checks, Balances, and Compromises30 Minutes
- 9.8Chapter 8: The Convention Completes Its Work30 Minutes
- 9.9Chapter 9: The States Ratify30 Minutes
- 9.10Chapter 10: Our Constitution Today30 Minutes
- 9.11Unit 8 quiz: The United States Constitution20 Minutes18 Questions
- Unit 9: Early Presidents10
- 10.1Chapter 1: Washington Becomes President30 Minutes
- 10.2Chapter 2: The First Year30 Minutes
- 10.3Chapter 3: Hamilton and Jefferson30 Minutes
- 10.4Chapter 4: The First Adams30 Minutes
- 10.5Chapter 5: A New Capital for the New Nation30 Minutes
- 10.6Chapter 6: The Many-Sided Jefferson30 Minutes
- 10.7Chapter 7: “Mr. Madison’s War”30 Minutes
- 10.8Chapter 8: Monroe and the Second Adams30 Minutes
- 10.9Chapter 9: Jackson and the Common Man30 Minutes
- 10.10Unit 9 quiz: Early Presidents20 Minutes15 Questions
- Unit 10: American Reformers9
- 11.1Chapter 1: Springtime of Reform30 Minutes
- 11.2Chapter 2: Treating Mental Illnesses30 Minutes
- 11.3Chapter 3: Educating for Democracy30 Minutes
- 11.4Chapter 4: Abolitionism30 Minutes
- 11.5Chapter 5: Women and the Fight for Equality30 Minutes
- 11.6Chapter 6: The Seneca Falls Convention30 Minutes
- 11.7Chapter 7: The Case of John Lewis30 Minutes
- 11.8Chapter 8: Sonia Sotomayor30 Minutes
- 11.9Unit 10 quiz: American Reformers20 Minutes20 Questions
- Unit 11: Understanding Civics5
Instructor

Founder and Director of Pentecostal Gospel Assemblies
