World History

Crash Course Keeps Expanding

Writer John Green's series, Crash Course, keeps growing. Since I last wrote about this series, Green has added Mansa Musa and Africa as well as the Crusades. The best one is the Dark Ages as it explains how, for much of the world, it wasn't so dark. We tend to teach from one empire to the next in world history, but it looks at what was going on both in and outside of Europe.

- Flipped Video Collections For World History
If you are looking for videos to use in your World History class, here are mine. They are pretty simple and straight to the point and made with Screencastomatic (here's how). Here is another set (I wish I knew the name, but it's...

- Why Should You Take World History, John Green 2nd Season
This is the intro to John Green's second season of world history on his Crash Course. They are going to add a new video each week to the 42 world ones they already have up. Thanks to Kat Stankiewicz for the heads up on this great...

- John Green's Crash Course
If you are a fan of John Green's Crash Course series, he is now up to 42 of them for world history including the two most recent ones above on globalization. ...

- Rome, Christianity And John Green's New Films
There are two new John Green (of Crash Course) films above. Unfortunately I finished Rome two weeks ago, but it would be great for review when we get closer to our state exam. If you put all of Green's films together you do have a nice...

- An Amusing Look At The Indus River Valley Civilization
Here is the second in the series by John Green of Crash Course. &nb sp;I might show this to my students before teaching the Indus River Valley. ...

World History