Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Bridging World History: Maps, Time, and World History
Learn how map projections and chronological constructs are used in the study of world history and help us to understand and interpret the past. Part of a larger site on world history, this unit on maps offers complete reading,...
Discovery Education
Discovery Education: World History Lesson Plans
These lesson plans deal with world history. Content is organized by grade level, but all lesson plans include suggestions for adaptations for older or younger audiences.
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: World History: Treaty of Versailles
Students develop and express claims through discussions and writing which evaluate the effect the Treaty of Versailles had on settling the international disputes which had initiated World War I.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Bridging World History: Global Industrialization
Europe and America were far from alone in the quest for industrialization. This unit explores just how far the age of industry impacted the world.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Bridging World History: Global Popular Culture
This unit embraces the development of popular culture, more widespread than ever, due to globalization.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Bridging World History: Connections Across Land
This unit chronicles the paths taken by various explorers for delivery of commodities and religion which led to the migration of people and an onslaught of disease. Particular attention is paid to The Silk Road, The Turquoise Road, and...
Stanford University
Sheg: Document Based History: Reading Like a Historian: u.s. Entry Into Wwi
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this historical inquiry instructional activity, students address the question, "What changed between 1914 and 1917 that caused the U.S. to enter WWI?" to corroborate a textbook account with two...
Stanford University
Stanford History Education Group: Battle of the Somme
[Free Registration/Login Required] Register with the SHEG and access this lesson plan and power point presentation featuring World War I's Battle of the Somme.
National Endowment for the Humanities
Neh: Edsit Ement: u.s. Entry Into World War 1: Curriculum Unit
A teacher-directed curriculum unit that deals with the issue of why the United States entered World war 1. Includes an extensive list of additional resources and activities.
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: World History: Russian Revolution
Students develop and express claims through discussions and writing which examine the impact of relationships between ideas, people, and events across time and place. To accomplish this, they evaluate the causes and consequences of the...
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: World History: Fall of Communism
Students develop and express claims through discussions and writing which examine tensions during the Cold War and actions taken as a result.
Other
Ithaca College: Project Look Sharp: Soviet History Through Posters
[Free Registration/Login Required] Multi-unit curriculum kit on the history of the Soviet Union told in five episodes using Soviet posters as source material. Coverage includes the birth of the Soviet Union, Stalin, the Great Patriotic...
Stanford University
Stanford History Education Group: Invasion of Nanking
[Free Registration/Login Required] Observe the difference in perception, or how cautious a nation can be, in delivering historical events that may place a nation in a negative light. With a free registration, gain access to a lesson plan...
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Us History: Wwii
Students develop and express claims through discussions and writing which examine the causes and consequences of historical events and international relations on a shift in U.S. foreign policy which eventually led to U.S. involvement in...
University of Texas at Austin
University of Texas: History of the Jews of Turkey [Pdf]
A document-based question unit for world history regarding the history of the Jewish people of Turkey.
Stanford University
Stanford History Education Group: Nazi Propaganda
[Free Registration/Login Required] Take a look at propaganda used to gain approval of the annexation of Austria to Germany during World War II through this lesson plan and presentation.
Stanford University
Stanford History Education Group: Appeasement
[Free Registration/Login Required] Leaders European democracies, like Britain, utilized the appeasement policy during the years during Hitler's dictatorship prior to World War II. The decision to use the policy are greatly debated still....
Other
Bringing History Home: Ww Ii Home Front
In this 5th grade unit, students study the World War II home front using primary sources. After an introduction to the origins of the war, they study the effects of the war on the U.S. economy; citizen participation in the war effort...
Library of Congress
Loc: Waldseemuller's Map: World 1507
Discover a fascinating primary source document and share with students the historical relevance Waldseemuller's map has to our world today. Map reading, analyzing, and drawing conclusions as to why this particular map carries so much...
ArtsNow
Arts Now Learning: Art History Learning Stools [Pdf]
Fourth graders will learn about the art that documents our world via art history, genres, and master artists. They will select an era or artist that inspires them, research it, and create an artwork using collage, painting and drawing...
PBS
Pbs: The Roman Empire of the 1st Century: Who's Who in Roman History
For this lesson, students produce a classroom documentary about important historical figures from the Roman Empire. They will also create posters to be part of a classroom timeline showing when each of these people lived and their impact...
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Joe Hill and the International Workers of the World [Pdf]
A lesson plan from the producers of the 16-episode PBS series "Freedom: A History of US" that focuses on the growth of militant labor unions like the International Workers of the World, on Joe Hill's role in the IWW, and on the...
PBS
Wnet: Thirteen: Freedom: History of Us: Safe for Democracy?: Wilson's 14 Points [Pdf]
A lesson plan from the producers of the 16-episode PBS series "Freedom: A History of US" that directs students to examine Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points. They will discuss how Wilson's plan and the establishment of the League of...
Stanford University
Sheg: Document Based History: Reading Like a Historian: Mapping the New World
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read primary source documents to solve a problem surrounding a historical question. This document-based inquiry lesson allows students study two 17th-century maps of Virginia and think...
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