The thing that really impresses me is it isn't just that the kids are going to be able to match terms to definitions for advanced concepts. They're actually covering advanced concepts in depth.
For example for just part of what they're doing on totalitarianism, they're covering Stalin's rise to power, reading the short story The Composition by Antonio Skarmeta and discussing how life would be different for the characters in the USA and reading and discussing Ray Bradbury's The Pedestrian. It is a mix of past, present, and a dystopian future.
I might've colored some pilgrims at Thanksgiving for third grade history. I didn't have anything like this until high school.
