World History Teachers Blog

JANUARY 9, 2025

Here are some great StoryMaps from Esri's GIS Systems Their software includes story maps for over a dozen titles in World and US history, including the Age of Exploration, the First Crusade, Ancient Greece, the Black Death, the Spanish Conquest of the Aztec Empire, Egyptian Funerary Practices, and many more.

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World History Teachers Blog

MARCH 8, 2025

Here is a Cold War Stations activity that I use with my AP World students when we cover the Cold War. One of my colleagues developed it years ago. It includes seven stations, each with cartoons, documents, or photographs for students to process. I printed it out for seven different stations, but students could also work on it online.

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World History Teachers Blog

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Here is one of my favorite clips to show students when discussing revolutions. Max Fisher explains the origins of national identity in this excellent five-minute clip for the New York Times. He notes that the idea of a national identity is relatively new. Just before the French Revolution, for example, France was not really a nation.

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World History Teachers Blog

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Atlantic Magazine published 45 black and white stunning black-and-white photographs of the interwar period around the world.

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World History Teachers Blog

FEBRUARY 22, 2025

The Guardian has a terrific interactive site about the global nature of World War I. Ten historians give a brief history of the war through global lenses in a video that takes the viewer through the war. It has interactive maps, original news reports, and videos exploring the war and its effects from many perspectives.

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World History Teachers Blog

JANUARY 5, 2025

Here are several resources that remind us of the global nature of World War I. The first resources explain the role of China in the war.

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World History Teachers Blog

JUNE 30, 2022

The history department at OSU (Ohio State University) tweeted this excellent 10-minute clip about Magellan's voyage and its importance to Spain and to world history. The voyage led to the beginning of global trade and generated new scientific knowledge about global time and the earth's circumference.

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World History Teachers Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

One of my favorite sites for teaching medieval cities like Mali, Calicut, and Quanzhou is called Sites of Encounter in the Medieval World. It comes from The University of California at Davis and includes lessons with primary sources, maps, charts, and graphs.

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World History Teachers Blog

AUGUST 17, 2022

The second clip comes from the World History Encyclopedia. It includes some of the entries in the Book of the Dead and asks students to create categories for the entries. One of the clips comes from TedEd.

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World History Teachers Blog

MAY 30, 2022

They include Twitter threads about Islamic calligraphy, Islamic gardens, unique mosques in Africa, the dome interiors of mosques around the world, the use of geometric patterns in Islamic art, and Islamic scientists who study the cosmos. These threads, which I have saved as pdfs could work well in a unit on Islam in World History.

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World History Teachers Blog

JULY 30, 2022

The essay is an ideal assignment for world history students studying the unit on revolutions in the 1700 and 1800s.

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World History Teachers Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Their software includes story maps for over a dozen titles in World History, including the Age of Exploration, the First Crusade, Ancient Greece, and its geography, the Black Death, the Spanish Conquest of the Aztec Empire, Egyptian Funerary Practices, and many more.

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World History Teachers Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Here is a terrific site that features biographical stories of specific slaves, slave owners, and traders. It comes from the same people who created the "Slave Biographies: The Atlantic Database Network." You can read dozens of short sketches about specific slaves like Felisberta who was born in 1820 in Central West Africa.

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World History Teachers Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2024

Two historians, Mike Duncan, a revolutionary history podcaster, and David A. Bell, a history professor at Princeton, took Noonan to task on Twitter for not knowing her history. Both historians suggest that the revolution, while horrifically violent, made significant contributions to the world.

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World History Teachers Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Should we throw out everything we’ve learned about the Silk Roads? The writer William Dalrymple thinks that we should in this fascinating essay for the Guardian titled "T he Silk Road still casts a spell, but was the ancient trading route just a Western invention? "

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World History Teachers Blog

MARCH 30, 2025

Studying decolonization? Here are two terrific short (25 to 30 minutes) documentaries about two independence movements in Africa--in Ghana and Kenya. Both are from CCTV News, a 24-hour English news channel, of China Central Television, based in Beijing. You can find questions for both videos in the New Visions Global Curriculum for 10th grade.

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World History Teachers Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Bantu Migrations: Resources Here are three good clips about the early Bantu migrations, and a terrific site about iron in Africa. One video clip comes from Masaman, who produces educational videos on his YouTube channel.

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World History Teachers Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

What was life like in Cairo in 1321? Coptic Christians and Mamluk Muslims did not get along. In fact, in 1321 violence broke out and spread throughout the city.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 18, 2021

From a female perspective on migration, to the aftermath of the effects of climate change on the island of Mauritius, to the effects of constant connectivity on mental health, this new selection of MY World 360 ° immersive experiences takes viewers on a journey across the many sides of a turning point in world history.

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World History Teachers Blog

JANUARY 15, 2025

Here is an excellent 14-minute clip about the Meiji Revolution from the Pacific Century, the 1992 PBS 10-part documentary about the rise of the Pacific Rim. Part two, from which the attached clip comes, is about the Meiji Revolution. It is dated but still does a good job. It begins in 1868 when Mutsuhito became the Meiji Emperor.

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World History Teachers Blog

MARCH 19, 2025

Here are two video clips about Japanese imperialism during the interwar period. The first reviews the Manchurian crisis and the failure of the League of Nations while the second, from CCTV News, speaks to eyewitnesses about the Nanking Massacre.

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World History Teachers Blog

JANUARY 21, 2025

Here are two clips about the Opium Wars. One is from CNN Millenium , which I often show my students and the other is from Micheal Wood in The Story of China. Both are short, about 8 to 10 minutes. In the CNN Millenim video, the Opium War starts at 28.49 and runs to 36.50. The clip from The Story of China is eight minutes long.

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World History Teachers Blog

JANUARY 2, 2025

It starts with the Revolution of 1905 and continues through Russia's withdrawal from World War 1. In addition, here's a great website about the Russian Revolution, called 1917, Free History , from Yandex Publishing. Here is a good 33-minute documentary about the Russian Revolution.

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World History Teachers Blog

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Show your students the extent to which World War 1 was global with this excellent Twitter thread from Eileen Cheng-yin Chow, Director of the Shewo Institute of Chinese Journalism.

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World History Teachers Blog

JANUARY 29, 2025

Another historian, Sir Richard J Evans -Regius professor of history, University of Cambridge, argues that Serbia was most responsible. Ten historians give 10 different interpretations on who started WWI in this BBC story. Sir Max Hastings - military historian, argues that Germany was most responsible. "It

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World History Teachers Blog

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Here's a great six minute review of the MAIN causes of WWI from "Made from History."

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Leah Cleary

JULY 9, 2023

It’s generating blog posts (not this one–sorry, I like to write), jingles, and images. Here are sample commands: Command: DOK Level 1 Explanation + Generate 3 DOK Level 1 Multiple Choice Questions appropriate for sophomore World History students studying Classical Greece. AI is everywhere. Constantly.

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World History Teachers Blog

JUNE 28, 2024

Edsurge just published a new story by Jeffery R. Young about new features of AI that will require educators to make even more adjustments. First, Open AI is making its latest generation of Chatbot free to anyone. Second, new tools make it easier for students to skip notetaking in class.

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Rosie the History Teacher

DECEMBER 14, 2019

My 9th grade US History class is finishing up the World War I unit and they have learned so much! I focus on the US involvement in the war and students will learn about global perspectives in their World History class in 10th grade. Get it here.

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4QM Teaching

MAY 7, 2023

State tests are a crucial tool for gathering data about student performance and holding schools accountable for results – this is not an anti-testing blog post. The bitter irony here is that it’s now very clear that “reading” is not a discrete skill that can be taught or tested in isolation from general knowledge about the world.

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World History Teachers Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2024

Teaching Reconstruction in US History? Here is a fascinating overview from the viewpoints of the many freed slaves who experienced it. Kidada Williams begins her book, "I Saw Death Coming" by reviewing developments immediately after the Civil War.

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World History Teachers Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2024

Studying Greece? Here's a great interactive website about the Plague of Athens that provides context for Covid 19. And here is a hyperdoc that students can use as they explore the site. Follow an Athenian doctor, Nikos, as he tends to the sick and dying. Those infected by the endemic faced a horrible death.

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World History Teachers Blog

JUNE 14, 2024

It's from Crash Course Geography so it may not be noticed by those of us who teach history. Here's an excellent overview of how different religions spread along the Silk Road.

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World History Teachers Blog

JANUARY 21, 2024

Here is an excellent essay by the historian, Peter Frankopan, for AEON Magazine about the significance of silk from its accidental development in China to its use as a "symbol of extravagance and decadence" in Afro-Eurasia. It's a great story and the excerpts are for great for the classroom.

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World History Teachers Blog

APRIL 25, 2022

Studying Greece? Here's a great interactive website about the Plague of Athens that provides context for Covid 19. And here is a hyperdoc students can use as they explore the site. Follow an Athenian doctor, Nikos, as he tends to the sick and dying. Those infected by the endemic faced a horrible death.

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World History Teachers Blog

APRIL 30, 2022

I plan to introduce my Current Events students to China's social credit system with a lesson that I found from another teacher, some outside readings, and a couple of video clips. China has instituted a series of initiatives and databases to monitor the trustworthiness of its citizens and companies.

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World History Teachers Blog

MAY 8, 2022

Here's an excellent and short overview of Zen Buddhism, from the online Buddhist magazine, Lion's Roar. The author, Norman Fischer, a Zen teacher and writer, reviews the basic principles and practices of Zen. Korea first transmitted Buddhism to Japan in 525 CE but Zen for meditation was introduced in the 11th century.

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