World History
Big History: David Christian Covers 13.7 Billion Years of History in 18 Minutes
Historian David Christian, the proponent of Big History, a discipline that "examines long time frames using a multidisciplinary approach based on combining numerous disciplines from science and the humanities,? explains world history in 18 minutes. You can read more about Christian here at Open Culture, where I found this clip.
- World History: Great Resources
What's the difference between early Christian and Byzantine art. You can find out by watching the ten minute clip on the Education Portal. After you watch it, you can take a short quiz. The Byzantine Empire is one part of a longer course on...
- 18 Tedtalks For World History Classrooms
Tom Wujec discusses the 13th-century astrolabe in this 9 minute Ted Talk. It is one of 18 Ted Talk videos that Kentucky teacher, Angela Hamblen Cunningham put together on her blog which you can find here. Some of these include: David Christian: The History...
- History Simulations
So far I have made very little money with this blog because it is a labor that I love and I feel as it has enhanced my teaching and based on the e-mails a lot of others as well. But fortunately I do make some "ice cream" money and one of the sources...
- Socrates With Alain De Botton
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- Big History And Scale Of The Universe
I've been reading David Christian's Maps of Time, and I'm increasingly led to believe that world history could take this type of "universal" approach in the coming years. A less expensive and shorter version of Big History is Christian's...
World History
- World History: Great Resources
What's the difference between early Christian and Byzantine art. You can find out by watching the ten minute clip on the Education Portal. After you watch it, you can take a short quiz. The Byzantine Empire is one part of a longer course on...
- 18 Tedtalks For World History Classrooms
Tom Wujec discusses the 13th-century astrolabe in this 9 minute Ted Talk. It is one of 18 Ted Talk videos that Kentucky teacher, Angela Hamblen Cunningham put together on her blog which you can find here. Some of these include: David Christian: The History...
- History Simulations
So far I have made very little money with this blog because it is a labor that I love and I feel as it has enhanced my teaching and based on the e-mails a lot of others as well. But fortunately I do make some "ice cream" money and one of the sources...
- Socrates With Alain De Botton
Saw this on Open Culture and watched about 15 minutes. Kids might get a little bored after 5 or 6 minutes but I found it to be an excellent primer on Socrates and might even show 5 or 6 minutes of it next year when we do Greece. de Botton does a good...
- Big History And Scale Of The Universe
I've been reading David Christian's Maps of Time, and I'm increasingly led to believe that world history could take this type of "universal" approach in the coming years. A less expensive and shorter version of Big History is Christian's...
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