This is a list of teaching materials and resources for teaching world history. It contains links to resources for pre-secondary, secondary, and post-secondary classrooms as well as world history syllabi.
Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy
This 6-week course centers on the origins of human beings and the emergence of civilization and includes the study of India, Greece, and Rome as seen thought the development of democratic forms of government.
Material Type: Syllabus
This resource contains a series of sample assignments including: second-hand source excerpts about civilization with critical questions, instructions for a project about art traditions in Asia, instructions for a project about imperialism with a written and visual component, and instructions for a document-based essay about imperialism.
Material Type: Homework/Assignment
This resource contains five excerpts from documents about indigenous women in Latin America and critical questions about these excerpts.
Material Type: Homework/Assignment
This course invites students to consider the following three big questions: How can we learn more about Indigenous peoples and issues, even after this class is over? How can we think about the place that is now called the United States from a different perspective that removes colonizers from the central narrative? How can the study of history make the world a safer, more just, and kinder place to live for everyone?
Material Type: Syllabus
This 16-week course examines Native American sovereignty from the perspectives of Historical Studies and Anthropology. It covers the history and unique position of American Indian Nations in relation to American political systems, as well as the politics within these indigenous groups as independent nations. The Historical Studies perspective will focus on understanding the historical context of Indian-White relations, while the Anthropology perspective will explore the variety of Native American perspectives on these relations from within their own cultures.
Material Type: Syllabus
This 16-week course is an introduction to archaeology through discoveries and the researchers who made them. Emphasis on methods of archaeological fieldwork and what these discoveries reveal about humanity, including the nature of archaeological inquiry, the development of human social groups, the changing role of religion in evolving societies, the origins of agriculture, the origins of settled lifeways, the rise of cities and complex societies, political strife across different cultures and the forces which fragment societies. Examples drawn from North America, Central America, and South America.
Material Type: Syllabus
This lesson plan is about racial violence in the Postbellum American South. It includes essential questions, objectives, and assessment parameters.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
In this lesson, students will explore the creation and mission of the Great Smoky Mountain National Park (GSMNP) and be able to summarize the history of the park and think critically about its mission and creation. Student will also be asked to analyze the mission statement of the Museum of the Cherokee Indian.
Material Type: Lesson
This sample assignment contains learning objectives and assignments having to do with a unit on indigenous literature.
Material Type: Unit of Study
Over the course of the three week block, students will research and create a replica of an ancient building using three bibliographic citations for sources on appearance, daily use and cultural significance of their chosen structure. Students will present their model to the class as a capstone project.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
This resources is a 36-week pacing guide for a course in world history. It separates subjects/topics into four nine-week sections. Course topics include Islamic, African, and Mesoamerican Civilizations; imperialism and revolutions; and conflicts in the 20th century.
Material Type: Syllabus
The subject of this unit is race in Latin America. It contains material and activities for six parts: introduction to Latin American diversity, pre-Columbian civilizations, colonization, the slave trade, post-colonial Latin America, and present day Latin America. The goal of this unit is to help students understand the connections between colonialism and the ethnic demographics of Latin America.
Material Type: Unit of Study
This AP world history course was designed based on five themes: Interactions between humans and the environment; development and interaction of cultures; state-building, expansion, and conflict; creation, expansion, and interaction of economic systems; and development and transformation of social structures. The course explores historical events from the 13th century through the 20th century.
Material Type: Syllabus
This lesson plan is from a unit titled Consequences of Industrialization. It explores the expansion of imperial states from 1750-1900 and the methods of that expansion. The lesson also focuses on how imperial powers have dealt with the negative consequences of imperialism on indigenous peoples in recent years.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
In this assignment, students will read a chapter from 1491: New Revelations of the Americas before Columbus by Charles Mann and answer discussion questions about historical agency.
Material Type: Homework/Assignment
This course is designed for students to gain an understanding of the different eras of history which have created the world in which we live today. The course explores different societies and their approaches to social, political, cultural, and economic changes as they interact with different actors at a variety of different social levels.
Material Type: Syllabus
For this assignment, students will use a graphic organizer to think about how the geography and environment of a place have shaped the economy, culture, society, and politics of Mesopotamia, Mesoamerican, Andean societies as well as a society of their choice.
Material Type: Homework/Assignment
This resource contains six documents related to the Pueblo people in Mesa Verde including information about drought, agricultural production, population density and migration. The assignment asks students to use the artifacts provided to analyze what happened to the Pueblo people at the end of the Pueblo III period in 1270 C.E. The resource contains a template for answering questions about each resource and directions for writing an argumentative essay about the Pueblo people using the documents as evidence.
Material Type: Homework/Assignment
In this project, students will describe and illustrate events from their own lives and find another person to provide another description of those same events. Students will then compare and contrast the two descriptions. The goal of the project is for students to recognize the ways that perspective can influence storytelling, an important thing to consider when analyzing events in history.
Material Type: Homework/Assignment
