This presentation offers resources and strategies to encourage the use of digital and environmental approaches to teaching World History including the use of contemporary and historical maps to foster spatial reasoning skills; assigning students to create interactive maps and virtual globes; and using visualization tools that show environmental change over time.
Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy
The lesson plan provides an introduction for instructors on how to incorporate comics and other graphic elements in the World History classroom. A PowerPoint presentation explores the theory of using comics as histories and offers tools and strategies for the critical reading of graphic histories. Two supplemental worksheets suggest specific questions related to comics and a list of modern world history graphic novels.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
The assignment asks students to write the history of a region and period that they have chosen in a world history course using five objects. Each of the five objects should represent different aspects of the region and period chosen. The political, economic, technological, social and religious aspects of the topic should also be explained using the five objects. The resource includes a grading rubric.
Material Type: Homework/Assignment
The course is designed for students to develop a greater understanding of global processes and interaction between all human societies. The course follows a thematic approach which will highlight the nature of international continuities and changes, their causes and consequences, and comparisons among major societies. The course emphasizes relevant factual knowledge in conjunction with interpretive issues and many types of historical evidence. Beginning with the start of civilization, focusing on the past millennium, the course builds on an understanding of cultural, institutional, and technological precedents that influence developments throughout history. The course begins with the rise of civilizations and extends through the modern world.
Material Type: Syllabus
In this activity, students create a storybook about the life of a caveman including information about their clothing, shelter, food, and language. Students can create a hand drawn or live-action story, or may choose to use another form of media including Sketchpad, Google Slides, Storyboard That. Storybooks should include elements of graphic novels discussed in the class.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Teaching/Learning Strategy
This resource gives directions for a project about polytheistic religions. It aims to answer the question how is religion a narrative for the culture of a civilization? Students will work in groups and present their work.
Material Type: Homework/Assignment, Student Guide, Teaching/Learning Strategy
In this assignment, students are asked to look at the Code of Hammurabi and use comics to visually represent information from the Code. Students create a storyboard using their understanding of the Code and write a reflection paper summarizing their observations about Babylonian society.
Material Type: Homework/Assignment
An essay question directing students to consider how many different perspectives there are on the incursion and settlement of the American frontier by American colonists and settlers.
Material Type: Assessment
This activity will allow students to explore some aspects of the political, economic, social, and cultural developments of major African empires from around 1500-1800 CE. It contains information about Songhai, Kongo, Asante, the Swahili Coast, and Ethiopia.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
AP World History is designed to develop a greater understanding of global processes and interaction between all human societies. This understanding is advanced through a combination of factual knowledge and analytical skills. The course follows a thematic approach which will highlight the nature of international continuities and changes, their causes and consequences, and comparisons among major societies. The course emphasizes relevant factual knowledge in conjunction with interpretive issues and many types of historical evidence. The course will also focus on learning to write mechanically in the “AP style”. Beginning in earnest around 1250, focusing on the past millennium, the course builds on an understanding of cultural, institutional, and technological precedents that influence developments throughout history. The course begins with the rise of civilizations and extends through the turmoil of the modern world.
Material Type: Syllabus
Students will use primary sources to answer questions about the colonization of the new world and the effects of European imperialism on development in Africa and Asia.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
The purpose of this course is to familiarize undergraduate students with environmental history as a discipline, as well as introduce them to the Atlantic World as a region of study by focusing on the late fifteenth through mid-nineteenth centuries. This course does not assume previous experience with history courses and is intended to be a broad survey that encompasses several global regions. The course is arranged both thematically and geographically and emphasizes environmental change in the context of the eastern and southern coasts of the United States, the Caribbean, central and southeastern Mexico, Brazil, West Africa, and the Atlantic and Mediterranean coasts of Europe throughout the early modern period.
Material Type: Syllabus
This assignment uses to the story of Mulan to explore what is fact and what is fiction in Han China. The assignment asks students to consider the Disney version of Mulan and how this portrayal affects the accuracy of a Chinese folk story and specifically the story's Confucian values.
Material Type: Homework/Assignment
In this resource, students will be asked to read, think, and write about gender in history through world languages.
Material Type: Homework/Assignment, Student Guide
This resource is a collection of slides used to teach a unit on frontier and westward expansion. The slide deck contains a variety of lessons that focus on different primary sources including American Progress by John Gast.
Material Type: Lesson, Unit of Study
This resource contains instructions for doing a project called "Imperialism Around the World." Students will be asked to create a trip around the world through the past. The project asks students to include representations of the experiences of those creating colonies (Europeans) and those colonized (indigenous peoples).
Material Type: Homework/Assignment, Lesson Plan, Student Guide
This resource contains background information about Native American residential schools and a list of related sources.
Material Type: Homework/Assignment
The overarching goal of these lessons is to expand students' knowledge of lesser-known Pacific Islands, their cultures, and make the connection to people/names they may already know who are of Pacific Island descent.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
The objective of this proposed program of study is to illustrate to students the similarities and differences between the history of North America and Latin America.
Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy
This lesson uses the question should indigenous names be mascots? to encourage students to consider both sides of a debate. Students are asked to share their opinions after engaging and exploring the topic and reflect on what their classmates have said.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Lesson Plan
