World History
The Stanford History Education Group (SHEG) has an excellent lesson on the spread of the early Islamic empire with primary documents. You can see the documents below but you should go to the SHEG site to download the teacher material.
If you have never used Stanford's resources, you should definitely check them out. Their documents are terrific and always include good scaffolding instructions.
For this lesson, students consider how the Islamic Empire spread.
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World History
Expansion of Early Islamic Empire: Reading Like a Historian
The Stanford History Education Group (SHEG) has an excellent lesson on the spread of the early Islamic empire with primary documents. You can see the documents below but you should go to the SHEG site to download the teacher material.
If you have never used Stanford's resources, you should definitely check them out. Their documents are terrific and always include good scaffolding instructions.
For this lesson, students consider how the Islamic Empire spread.
- Black Death Documents (sheg)
Studying the black Death? Here's a great lesson from the Stanford History Education Group (SHEG)with two documents and two different interpretations of the Black Death. The lesson includes a chart for sourcing and contextualizing the documents. Understanding...
- The Battle Of Thermopylae: Stanford History Education Lesson
The Stanford History Education Group (SHEG) has a new World history lesson, The Battle of Thermopylae, which you can preview here. Their lessons all use primary sources, which are generally short, and include good scaffolding. ...
- Reading Like A Historian: Stanford University
You gotta love Stanford University. Their education group has created a site called "Reading like a Historian." They created lessons for world history, each of which revolves around a central question, and uses primary documents to analyze the question....
- Women In World History/ Primary Sources
Earlier in the year, I wrote about a primary sources program at Stanford University with complete lesson plans. George Mason University has a similar program called "Women in World History." If you click on "modules," you...
- Primary Sources: Teaching Students To Think
Stanford University has created over 75 lessons for high schools based entirely on primary documents. No textbooks, no lectures. The lessons are all about diaries, journals, pictures, documents, speeches, songs and photographs. The lessons are all in...