World History
- Some Sites For Teaching About Martin Luther King, Jr.
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is coming up fast. Many teachers are having to come up with ideas for teaching about the slain civil rights leader. Here are a few sites I have discovered recently: Happy Birthday, MLK! - Activities for all grades for learning...
- Unit Projects/assessments For 10th-grade World History
Teaching History has some great ideas for unit assessments in World History. The site includes links to some interesting assignments. For example, the site notes that "a lesson in the Cold War unit in the World History for Us All online curriculum asks...
- 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....
- Acropolis Museum In Greece
Maine teacher, Richard Byrne, has put together a site called ?Free technology for Teachers.? In March, he posted ?7 Good resources for Art Teachers and Students.? One of the sources he posted is called the Art Project and I love it. It?s powered by Google...
- Google Glasses
If there is one main idea I want to get across in this blog it is that teachers should be changing all the time (and I assume in coming to this site you probably are). While Google's glasses are still a ways away (as are the contact lenses...
World History
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.
Christian divides history into big 10 big periods with timelines, images, animations, infographics, and even comic books for many of the periods. He begins each unit with big questions. For example for unit 9, which covers revolutions and the creation of the modern world, Christian asks which factors contributed to the acceleration of change since 1500 and why these factors were so critical? If you like World History for us All, then you will also like the Big History Project.
In his blog, Getting Smart, Tom Vander Ark, describes the project like this: "Teaching Big History as a course or using it as the central idea for block or an academy currently takes a lot of teacher initiative. Over the next couple years, archetypal uses, lesson plans, professional development opportunities, and other supports will emerge. Big History is a big idea. More precisely, it?s a set of big questions. It?s a set of question that I?d like to see every young person have the chance to ask."
Christian divides history into big 10 big periods with timelines, images, animations, infographics, and even comic books for many of the periods. He begins each unit with big questions. For example for unit 9, which covers revolutions and the creation of the modern world, Christian asks which factors contributed to the acceleration of change since 1500 and why these factors were so critical? If you like World History for us All, then you will also like the Big History Project.
In his blog, Getting Smart, Tom Vander Ark, describes the project like this: "Teaching Big History as a course or using it as the central idea for block or an academy currently takes a lot of teacher initiative. Over the next couple years, archetypal uses, lesson plans, professional development opportunities, and other supports will emerge. Big History is a big idea. More precisely, it?s a set of big questions. It?s a set of question that I?d like to see every young person have the chance to ask."
- Some Sites For Teaching About Martin Luther King, Jr.
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is coming up fast. Many teachers are having to come up with ideas for teaching about the slain civil rights leader. Here are a few sites I have discovered recently: Happy Birthday, MLK! - Activities for all grades for learning...
- Unit Projects/assessments For 10th-grade World History
Teaching History has some great ideas for unit assessments in World History. The site includes links to some interesting assignments. For example, the site notes that "a lesson in the Cold War unit in the World History for Us All online curriculum asks...
- 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....
- Acropolis Museum In Greece
Maine teacher, Richard Byrne, has put together a site called ?Free technology for Teachers.? In March, he posted ?7 Good resources for Art Teachers and Students.? One of the sources he posted is called the Art Project and I love it. It?s powered by Google...
- Google Glasses
If there is one main idea I want to get across in this blog it is that teachers should be changing all the time (and I assume in coming to this site you probably are). While Google's glasses are still a ways away (as are the contact lenses...