World History
Fordham University has a tremendous asset for your teaching of world history with tons and tons of links for every part of what you teach broken up into an easy to follow outline that looks like your World History I or II class.
For example, for the Enlightenment, here is a complete outline of all the major thinkers and links to their key writings. You could have your students read excerpts or put them in groups and have them exchange with others what they have found.
- Internet History Sourcebooks
Internet History Sourcebooks An extensive set of collections of public domain and copy-permitted historical texts, maps, and articles on a wide variety of historical areas and subjects. Compiled by Prof. Paul Halsall at Fordham University. From the site:...
- East India Company: Qatar Digital Archives
Studying exploration? Here's a great summary of the East India Company. Want to learn about slavery in Arabia in the 19th century? Here are documents that outline the slavery that the British encountered. And its different from the slavery the...
- Flipped Learning Network
For those of you who are flipping their classes a great resource is the Flipped Learning Network which has over 5000 teachers signed up to discuss items, links to tons of groups of teachers such as math, social studies, forums, videos, and a lot more....
- Honors Institute For World History I Students
Tonight I am doing an in-service for students who are going to be in honors World History I (Pre-history through the Renaissance). Other than the summer assignment, though, the skills are useful for all students and includes how to read, take notes,...
- Reading Critically
Next Monday I am teaching a three hour course for AP students on preparing them for this fall (well for us in VA it is fall since we do not see kids until Sept 7th!). One of the things I will concentrate on will be reading for understanding. Well...
World History
The Enlightenment and Primary Resources
For example, for the Enlightenment, here is a complete outline of all the major thinkers and links to their key writings. You could have your students read excerpts or put them in groups and have them exchange with others what they have found.
- Internet History Sourcebooks
Internet History Sourcebooks An extensive set of collections of public domain and copy-permitted historical texts, maps, and articles on a wide variety of historical areas and subjects. Compiled by Prof. Paul Halsall at Fordham University. From the site:...
- East India Company: Qatar Digital Archives
Studying exploration? Here's a great summary of the East India Company. Want to learn about slavery in Arabia in the 19th century? Here are documents that outline the slavery that the British encountered. And its different from the slavery the...
- Flipped Learning Network
For those of you who are flipping their classes a great resource is the Flipped Learning Network which has over 5000 teachers signed up to discuss items, links to tons of groups of teachers such as math, social studies, forums, videos, and a lot more....
- Honors Institute For World History I Students
Tonight I am doing an in-service for students who are going to be in honors World History I (Pre-history through the Renaissance). Other than the summer assignment, though, the skills are useful for all students and includes how to read, take notes,...
- Reading Critically
Next Monday I am teaching a three hour course for AP students on preparing them for this fall (well for us in VA it is fall since we do not see kids until Sept 7th!). One of the things I will concentrate on will be reading for understanding. Well...