WORLD HISTORY FEATURES:
[Instructional Resources] [Professional Development] [10th grade TAKS Resources] [Video Resources]
Lesson Planning
Web Resources:
World History for Us All offers a treasury of teaching units, lesson plans, and resources.
It is a national collaboration of K-12 teachers, collegiate instructors, and educational technology specialists. It is a project of San Diego State University in cooperation with the National Center for History in the Schools at UCLA.
Best of History Web Sites is an award-winning portal that contains annotated links to over 1000 history web sites as well as links to hundreds of quality K-12 history lesson plans, history teacher guides, history activities, history games, history quizzes, and more.
World History Archives offers documents to support the study of world history from a working-class and non-Eurocentric perspective. Search for a document by using the Google search utility or by selecting a region from the menu.
Robert Schiller has done an amazing job on his site World History Compass - seeking to provide links from all over the world related to world history.
The Center for Teaching History with Technology, a resource created to help K-12 history and social studies teachers incorporate technology effectively into their courses.
Find resources for history and social studies lesson plans, activities, projects, games, and quizzes that use technology. Explore inquiry-based lessons, activities, and projects. Learn about new and emerging technologies such as blogs, podcasts, wikis, ipods, and online social networks. and explore innnovative ways of integrating them into the curriculum.
Linking Current Events with the past that students are learning about in World History is made easier using The New York Times Learning Network as a resource.
Find easy-to-integrate, "snapshot" news summaries excellent for discussion starters; a daily News Quiz; Daily Lesson Plans connected to the day's news as well as a complete archives of previous lesson plans on everything from Iraq to Immigration to Industrialization.
Did you know Discovery Education provides some excellent World History lesson plans for all grade levels?
Some lesson plans include suggestions for adaptations for older or younger audiences.
HotChalk's LessonPlansPage now has over 3,500 free lesson plans! To find lesson plans that match your criteria, begin by selecting a subject, recent additions, or search for specific topics.
Instructional Resources
3rd Six Weeks Content Support RECOMMENDATIONS
Pre-Columbian Americas:
Gain insight into the most recent scholarship regarding the Olmec and walk away with resources you could use in class this Six Weeks as you address the topic of Pre-Columbian America.
CONFERENCE: Olmec - The Origins of Ancient Mexican Civilization
LOCATION: University of TexasDATE(s): November 20-21, 2008
[CPE hours will be granted for educators who attend.]The Mexican Center of the Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies (LLILAS) will host a symposium on Olmec art and archaeology, and will explore the most recent scholarship by senior specialists in the field.
This conference will bring together leading experts on Olmec culture from Mexico and the U.S. Precursors to the better-known Maya culture, the Olmec (1500-400 BCE) are recognized in current scholarship as the foundation of civilization in Mesoamerica.
To register for the conference as part of your professional development contact Natalie Arsenault, LLILAS Outreach Director, or phone 512-232-2404 for further information. Detailed information about guest speakers and scheduled events can be found on the LLILAS site's Conference page. As a sidenote of interest,
LLILAS will receive as a gift from the Universidad Veracruzana at Xalapa, a full-scale stone reproduction of Olmec Colossal Head #1, also known as "El Rey." The official unveiling ceremony for this sculpture will take place during the course of the symposium.
European Renaissance & Protestant Reformation
The Renaissance Connection provides not only lesson plans but engaging features for students as well.
Recommendations:
- Do download the Adobe Flash Player when prompted and enter the Flash version of the site,
- Consider using the Intro slides as a unique opening hook for this unit
- We liked the Art Explorer feature but were disappointed David was not present
- By far our favorite feature was the "Innovations 1400-2020" section where you start with a modern invention (such as the Internet) and zoom back in time to see what Renaissance innovation inspired it (i.e., the Printing Press).
The Renaissance Interactive site, from the good folks at Annenberg Media and inspired by their series The Western Tradition, provides students a thorough examination of the 
Renaissance as they browse through the site's visually appealing pages - even linking them to clips taken from The Western Tradition video series in various places within the informative text.
MrDonn.org provides excellent adaptable ideas found among the number of lesson plans submitted on these two topics, Renaissance and Reformation.
The lesson activity titled Protestant Reformation and the Use of Propaganda is a great example of a lesson that takes specific instructional content and embeds within it the teaching of an important social studies habit of thinking / skill - identifying propaganda.
10th grade TAKS RESOURCES
Statewide Social Studies TAKS Results for Spring 2008,
88% of the sophomores met the social studies standard across the state, while 32% achieved Commended Performance.
The Texas Education Agency provides the following helpful resources:
TEA Online TAKS Practice
Additional Tools and resources:
The information for the 10th Grade World History content contributed by Amber Rinehart
of Akins High School adapted from the 11th grade TAKS Study Guide designed by
Rob Cheshire of Akins and Pat Maney of Bowie High School.
Jeopardy TAKS Review from Texas LRE:
Other District's website resources:
- Alief Independent School District
- Northside Independent School District
- Georgetown ISD
- Lewisville Independent School District
- A great Test-Taking Strategies powerpoint from our friends at Cy-Fair ISD
- Birdville ISD developed 10th Grade TAKS People Quiz, Quiz, Trade Cards
and finally,
- the following English / Spanish Review Sheets come from Houston ISD's Curriculum site
- 10th Grade TAKS Review Sheets from Houston ISD (English)
- 10th Grade TAKS Review Sheets from Houston ISD (Spanish)
A Reminder: Given the large amount of 8th grade U.S. History content that should be reviewed again in 10th grade, 10th grade World History teachers are also encouraged to examine the list of proivded resources on our 8th grade page.
Video Resources
Network Providing Commercial-Free History Programs
The History Channel Classroom is an hour long, commercial-free, copyright cleared programming block that airs Monday through Friday from 5-6 am CT.
To view scheduled programming click here to visit the Classroom Calendar:
To select from a list of Classroom Study Guides, click here.
A.P. World History Course Information
AP Central introduces World History Teaching Units
The College Board and AP Central are pleased to announce the publication of 13 teaching units for the AP World History course. However, if you teach Pre-AP or simply want to rev up the rigor in your grade-level class you may want to take a look at these as well!
The units, prepared under the general editorship of Patrick Manning and Deborah Smith Johnston of the World History Center at Northeastern University in Boston, are intended to assist teachers in leading students through the best practices available for teaching world history.
WoodYard Publications is pleased to announce the availability of AP World History: An Essential Coursebook by Ethel Wood. What is the Coursebook? The Coursebook is more concise than most AP World History texts, but is more comprehensive than most AP review books.
The Coursebook thoroughly covers the topics from the AP curriculum and includes multiple-choice and free-response questions, yet the clear, concise style helps students to see and understand underlying world history themes without getting lost in a myriad of facts. For more information, visit the website.
Each unit is available for purchase in PDF format. (It's easy to register and the price for each unit is only $8.). For more information about ordering, including abstracts about these excellent World History Teaching Units, click below:
- The New World History
- The Spread of Universal Religions: Buddhism, Christianity, and Islam
- Early Afro-Eurasian Empires as Culturally Diverse Entities
- Trading Patterns in AfroEurasia Before 1000 C.E.
- Travel and Interchange: 1000-1450
- The Severing of Eastern and Western Christian Civilizations
- Free and Unfree Agrarian Workers: Peasants and Slaves, 1550-1750
- Major World Leaders and the Role of the Individual in Society, 1450-1750
- The Encounters of 1492 and Their Influence on the Wider World
- The Economic Role of Women in World History, 600-1914
- Peasant Rebellions of the Twentieth Century
- Decolonization: Struggle for National Identities, 1900-2001
- Consumerism and Global Cultures
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"The Advanced Placement Program (AP) offers a course and exam in World History to qualified students who wish to complete studies in secondary school equivalent to an introductory college course in World History. The course offers motivated students and their teachers the opportunity to immerse themselves in processes that, over time, have resulted in increasing interactions. AP World History offers an approach that lets students 'do history' by guiding them through the steps a historian would take analyzing historical events and evidence worldwide. The course offers balanced global coverage, with Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe, and Oceania all represented.
The AP Program offers teachers resources to help them begin teaching this AP World History course. The Course Description and the AP World History Teacher's Guide offer the groundwork for the course. In addition, AP Central offers a variety of teacher resource materials for teaching the course and lists College Board-sponsored workshops and summer institutes devoted to the AP World History course that will be coming to your region. AP Central includes an extensive lsit of excellent AP World History teaching aids, including a guide to World History teaching Web resources, lesson plans, teaching tips, sample syallabi, resource reviews, teaching units, excerpted materials from AP World History Best Practices, and feature articles.
The AP World History Electronic Discussion Group (EDG) is an invaluable resource for both new and experienced AP World History teachers; it provides a lively, monitored electronic forum for over 2,000 World History teachers to exchange teaching ideas, textbook reviews, and teaching materials and offer support to one another...."
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