World History
- How To Write A Book And Influence History
If you think about it, biographers and historians have a huge impact on history. Case in point is McCullogh's book about Truman, that no one considered first rate until the biography. Another example is how Doris Kearns Goodwin wrote...
- 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 Travels Of Ibn Battuta
A California teacher developed this great site (it will take a minute to load) with illustrated chapters from Ibn Battuta's travel book, Rihla. I used the site with a lesson plan five or six years ago and then the site disappeared. My colleague,...
- Age Of Imperialism
I was just speaking with my former teaching roommate of seven years and her class (now at another school) is already doing imperialism. So while it may be too late for her this year, it hopefully isn't for you as I have found a complete lesson...
- Data Dump
The US Census Bureau just released a whole slew of new data. This link will take you to the New York Times lesson plans site, where you can find a lesson and an interactive map showing the distribution of different racial and ethnic groups. ...
World History
Causes of US Entering WWI Lesson Plan
I am engrossed in Erik Laroson's new book Dead Wake which looks at the last voyage of the Lusitania including the view from U20, which sunk it as well as the decoders who knew that there was a great possibility that the Lusitania was going to be sunk. In one very vivid scene, Larson describes the Lusitania leaving port which you can see above. I think showing a brief part of this video brings the sinking alive to your students as does showing the Zimmerman Telegraph (here is a lesson plan developed around it).
- How To Write A Book And Influence History
If you think about it, biographers and historians have a huge impact on history. Case in point is McCullogh's book about Truman, that no one considered first rate until the biography. Another example is how Doris Kearns Goodwin wrote...
- 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 Travels Of Ibn Battuta
A California teacher developed this great site (it will take a minute to load) with illustrated chapters from Ibn Battuta's travel book, Rihla. I used the site with a lesson plan five or six years ago and then the site disappeared. My colleague,...
- Age Of Imperialism
I was just speaking with my former teaching roommate of seven years and her class (now at another school) is already doing imperialism. So while it may be too late for her this year, it hopefully isn't for you as I have found a complete lesson...
- Data Dump
The US Census Bureau just released a whole slew of new data. This link will take you to the New York Times lesson plans site, where you can find a lesson and an interactive map showing the distribution of different racial and ethnic groups. ...