World History Teachers Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Here is a terrific list of YouTube channels from a history site called History Skills that specializes in different periods of history. One channel that I particularly like specializes in World War 1. Another channel specializes in Islamic empires like the Mughals and the golden age of the Ummayad empire.

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World History History 130

Digital Promise

JANUARY 10, 2024

The post Exploring World History: Can a Skill-Based Curriculum Help? appeared first on Digital Promise.

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World History History 104

C3 Teachers

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

I have implemented this tool with my students in a high school World History classroom and feel good about the outcomes. I organized my Inquiry Discussion Guide as a checklist for teachers to track the development of their skills more efficiently. For me, it’s about using questions to move students toward argumentation.

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Primary Sources Pedagogy World History Library 111

A Principal's Reflections

APRIL 18, 2014

Recently students from Mr. Manzo’s 9th Grade Honors World History classes were assigned to create children’s books about the rise and fall of Napoleon Bonaparte in France during the late 18th and early 19th centuries. At New Milford High School we are always encouraging collaborations resulting in interdisciplinary projects.

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History World History High School 276

Passion for Social Studies

JANUARY 31, 2025

The Vietnam War was a pivotal event in world history. Thankfully, the Vietnam War Lesson and Recent US History Unit are ready to make learning meaningful and planning a breeze! It shaped global politics, the nature of warfare, and international relations.

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Lesson Plan History Psychology World History 130

A Principal's Reflections

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

They spoke of the History teacher who was having them blog to reflect critically on world history content where they could interact with each other and share their thoughts.

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World History Educational Technology High School History 252

Studies Weekly

MARCH 10, 2025

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American History History Teaching Primary Sources 90

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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Primary Sources History 217

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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History 202

A Principal's Reflections

JULY 3, 2013

Students in Mrs. Tambuscio’s World History class culminated a unit on the Holocaust by applying their historical knowledge to the viewing of survivor testimonies. Students were able to utilize IWitness , which is a computer-based program created by the USC Shoah Foundation’s Institute for Visual History.

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Artifacts World History Digital Resources Critical Thinking 207

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 History 130

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 History 130

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

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 History 130

A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 21, 2010

Today I observed Joe Manzo in Modern World History where he was covering the Columbian Exchange. Students worked diligently in the computer lab for three days and were then able to publish their projects online and present them in class.

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American History Educational Technology World History History 220

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 Economics Government History 130

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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Primary Sources Geography World History History 130

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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Government 190

A Principal's Reflections

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

It is important for my students to understand why artists choose certain themes, why they choose certain art processes, why imagery and ideas change, and what connections to world history are apparent.

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Museum Archiving Social Studies History 309

HistoryRewriter

OCTOBER 27, 2023

I thought it would be too slow and boring for my 10th-grade World History students. I remember skimming it in Barnes and Noble and putting it down because it starts off with a romantic triangle between Aphrodite, Ares, and Hephaestus in a New York City hotel suite in 1942. I was wrong. The book has a slow burn.

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World History Library History 130

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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Government History 185

HistoryRewriter

OCTOBER 9, 2023

I wish the book dove a little deeper into the history of the Korean peninsula. I would not choose this title to read in my World History class, however, if the purpose of Ethnic Studies is to help students “see” themselves in the curriculum; this book delivers.

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World History History Teaching 130

Geography Education

MAY 14, 2024

SOURCE: ESRI ESRI has produced GeoInquires for many diverse subjects , from American Literature to World History. Collections of 15–20 activities per topic enhance your curriculum throughout the year.” You don’t need mapping expertise to use these lessons–check them out!

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Geography World History History Humanities 130

Catlin Tucker

JANUARY 13, 2020

She is a veteran social studies teacher who has taught Sociology, US History, World History, Anthropology, and Psychology. I would like to thank Catlin for creating the materials to help me survive and thrive as a blended teacher and for the opportunity to share my experiences with you.

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Psychology Sociology Anthropology World History 218

Future of History

OCTOBER 6, 2024

Teaching about Judaism, Christianity and Islam needs to be a staple in middle school world history and culture classes. On the anniversary of October 7, Lauren Brown points out misconceptions and offers resource ideas to help counter students' frequent confusion.

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Teaching World History Middle School History 119

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 25, 2022

I took my first Advanced Placement course nearly four years ago in my freshman year of high school: AP World History. Throughout the year, I gained insight into thousands of years of human history, spanning from around 10,000 B.C.E. This year, I am taking AP Art History. to 2000 C.E.

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World History History Cultures High School 112

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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Primary Sources Teaching 147

Leah Cleary

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Check this one out for AP World History Unit 6: Take a moment if you need to, but please, come back to me. So I’ve been using it in class on workdays with my students (I especially give my AP Modern World History students those [workdays to annotate , read, and remediate]). Right now, mine doesn’t.

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Lesson Plan World History History Teaching 52

A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 4, 2011

World History - This website allows students to find out what homework is assigned, provides all handouts given in class, provides dates for projects and tests and allows students to submit their homework online via forms to Mrs. It also enables students to take online polls.

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Educational Technology History World History Lesson Plan 194

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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History Teaching 147

Studies Weekly

MARCH 14, 2025

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Primary Sources American History World History Social Studies 52

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 History Education 127

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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ED Surge

MARCH 15, 2024

This fall, after a restless night overthinking an assignment for my upcoming class and drinking three cups of not-strong-enough coffee, I added the final touch on my latest assignment for students in my World History II class.

American History 133

American History World History Social Studies History 133

ED Surge

APRIL 12, 2023

and World History teacher at Art in Motion School in Chicago. History class during the 2014-2015 academic year. Gariecia Rose: a current World History and Government/American Law teacher at Glenbard East High School in Lombard, Illinois. History class. Victoria was in my U.S.

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World Religions World History Civics History 120