A free, interactive app for teaching Minnesota history for sixth grade brought to you by the Minnesota Historical Society.

This stand-alone Civil War–focused curriculum was created using content from the premier state history textbook Northern Lights: The Stories of Minnesota’s Past, Revised Second Edition (R2E), and reflects the latest sixth grade benchmarks found in the new Minnesota K-12 Academic Standards in Social Studies.

Minnesota classroom tested, with enhancements and changes made as a direct result of student and teacher feedback, this app offers fun, engaging content, including:

• Interactive instructor support materials that are cleverly integrated in the app itself—perhaps its most innovative aspect
• a professionally narrated read-along
• interactive maps
• interactive graphs
• interactive timelines
• imbedded video
• high-definition primary source images from the Minnesota Historical Society’s collections—including a full-size bayonet!