World History
Bill Gates seems to like getting involved in the way we are teaching our students. He has helped bank roll the Khan Academy, Common Core and now, from his personal money (as opposed to the Gates Foundation), he is helping to promote a connected type of learning called the Big History Project. It is interesting to me as it is similar to the project I have been working on called ContextU (which has our Civil War unit up and in a few days will have our American Revolution up as well). The central thesis of both is that we do not live in a fish tank and that one thing is connected to others (as is becoming more and more obvious in our modern world). The Big History project pulls back and keeps looking at a timeline where as ContextU also adds in location, cause and effect and group connectivity.
With Bill Gates' funding the Big History Project has spread to a number of schools in the US as you can see from this article. You can go to the Big History Project and see six units of the course. To say the least I am always intrigued with a better way of teaching and since I have long believed that we all learn best when we can connect our subject matter to what we already know, I am curious about this course which has now even started to replace some schools' World History courses.
- History Matters
History Matters. Designed for high school and college teachers of U.S. History courses. This site serves as a gateway to Web resources and offers useful materials for teaching U.S. history. From the site: Welcome to History Matters, a project of the American...
- Teaching The Bill Of Rights
Teaching the Bill of Rights. This paper presents a brief history of the American Bill of Rights with ideas for presenting the topic in the classroom. From the site: The two-hundredth anniversary of the federal Bill of Rights in 1991 is the culmination...
- Project Based Learning
Interesting clip from the PBS News Hour about Project Based Learning. Thanks to Sofia Georgelos for tweeting the link. Here is more about Project Based Learning....
- The Big History Project
David Christian, who helped create the site, World History For Us All, has created another site for World history teachers and students called ?The Big History Project.? It is still in its beta form but teachers can still register and explore the site....
- Project Based Learning
The Buck Institute for Education (BIE) has an excellent site about Project Based Learning (PBL). In project based learning, students work on a complex problem or question and work collaboratively to design a solution. The BIE site has sample projects...
World History
Big History Project & Putting Learning in Context
Bill Gates seems to like getting involved in the way we are teaching our students. He has helped bank roll the Khan Academy, Common Core and now, from his personal money (as opposed to the Gates Foundation), he is helping to promote a connected type of learning called the Big History Project. It is interesting to me as it is similar to the project I have been working on called ContextU (which has our Civil War unit up and in a few days will have our American Revolution up as well). The central thesis of both is that we do not live in a fish tank and that one thing is connected to others (as is becoming more and more obvious in our modern world). The Big History project pulls back and keeps looking at a timeline where as ContextU also adds in location, cause and effect and group connectivity.
With Bill Gates' funding the Big History Project has spread to a number of schools in the US as you can see from this article. You can go to the Big History Project and see six units of the course. To say the least I am always intrigued with a better way of teaching and since I have long believed that we all learn best when we can connect our subject matter to what we already know, I am curious about this course which has now even started to replace some schools' World History courses.
- History Matters
History Matters. Designed for high school and college teachers of U.S. History courses. This site serves as a gateway to Web resources and offers useful materials for teaching U.S. history. From the site: Welcome to History Matters, a project of the American...
- Teaching The Bill Of Rights
Teaching the Bill of Rights. This paper presents a brief history of the American Bill of Rights with ideas for presenting the topic in the classroom. From the site: The two-hundredth anniversary of the federal Bill of Rights in 1991 is the culmination...
- Project Based Learning
Interesting clip from the PBS News Hour about Project Based Learning. Thanks to Sofia Georgelos for tweeting the link. Here is more about Project Based Learning....
- The Big History Project
David Christian, who helped create the site, World History For Us All, has created another site for World history teachers and students called ?The Big History Project.? It is still in its beta form but teachers can still register and explore the site....
- Project Based Learning
The Buck Institute for Education (BIE) has an excellent site about Project Based Learning (PBL). In project based learning, students work on a complex problem or question and work collaboratively to design a solution. The BIE site has sample projects...