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Various resources for teaching about the many aspects of World History can be found on this page.
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National Standards for World History, Grades 5-12
From the National Center for History in the Schools
"The development of the History Standards was administered by the National Center for History in the Schools at the University of California, Los Angeles under the guidance of the National Council for History Standards. The standards were developed with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the U.S. Department of Education." This site provides valuable background of the National Standards for World History (and United State History). |
World History for Us All
A Project of San Diego State University
World History for Us All:
• offers a treasury of teaching units, lesson plans, and resources.
• presents the human past as a single story rather than unconnected stories of many civilizations.
• helps teachers meet state and national standards.
• enables teachers to survey world history without excluding major peoples, regions, or time periods.
• helps students understand the past by connecting specific subject matter to larger historical patterns.
• draws on up-to-date historical research.
• may be readily adapted to a variety of world history programs.
Here you can also view (with Flash Player) "The History of the World in Seven Minutes."
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World History Matters
From the Center for History and New Media
"World History Matters is a portal to world history websites developed by the Center for History and New Media" at George Mason University. This site provides outstanding resources and wonderful lesson plans with multiple primary sources.
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Children and Youth in History
From The Center for History and New Media (CHNM) at George Mason University and the University of Missouri–Kansas City
"The Center for History and New Media (CHNM) at George Mason University and the University of Missouri–Kansas City received funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities to create Children and Youth in History. The project is in development and will be completed by summer 2010.
Children and Youth in History is designed to help teachers and students learn about the important roles of young people throughout history by providing access to information about the lived experiences of children and youth from multiple perspectives as well as changing notions about childhood and adolescence in past cultures and civilizations. The materials on this website address such questions as: What was it like to be a child or adolescent throughout history? How is childhood defined? How has it changed and how has it remained the same? What factors have shaped childhood and how did children shape history, society, and culture?
Children and Youth in History is a free website with four key features:
• a Primary Source Database with 200 resources along with guidance on how to use those sources critically and tools for annotating and organizing the sources;
• 50 Website Reviews that focus on valuable online resources for studying and teaching the history of childhood and youth in world history;
• 10 Teaching Modules that provide historical context, teaching tools, and strategies for teaching with sets of primary sources drawn from the Primary Source Database; and
• 20 Teaching Case Studies by experienced scholars and teachers that model strategies for using primary sources to teach the history of childhood and youth."
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Ancient History Page
From Mr.Donn
A wonderful resource for younger students! |
History Links 101
By Eric Rymer
"History Link 101 is a resource site for World History Classes. It is divided into six categories for each culture or time period. The categories are art, biographies, daily life, maps, pictures and research. Each site is rated on Visual 1-5 based on clarity and amount of images and Content 1-5 based on amount and depth of material. Currently the cultures/time periods of Prehistory, Africa, China, Egypt, Greece, Aztec, Mayan, Olmec, Native Americans, Mesopotamia, Middle Ages and World War II are completed with the aim to cover the entire scope of World History, so check back often to see more areas as they are developed. " |
A Teacher's Guide to Religion in the Public Schools
From the First Amendment Center
Teaching World History includes teaching about religion, not teaching religion. This document outlines teaching about religion in the public schools - a very thoughtful essay. |
Indian Ocean History
From the Sultan Qaboos Cultural Center (SQCC)
"The Indian Ocean has been a zone of human interactions throughout world history. As a body of water, of course, it has not been host to a civilization, and for this reason, it has been neglected in standard studies of world history for decades. Historians have only recently begun to think of the world's seas and oceans as theaters of human history. Fernand Braudel pioneered in viewing the Mediterranean Sea as a historical region beyond its shores, and since his seminal work The Mediterranean, terms such as the Atlantic World, the Pacific Rim and the Indian Ocean Basin have come to reflect the mainstreaming of important new research on maritime regions in world history." |
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Ancient Mesopotamia: This History, Our History
From the University of Chicago
“Mesopotamia, an ancient Greek term meaning ‘the land between rivers,’ is considered to be the cradle of civilization because this is where we find the origins of agriculture, written language, and cities. Chosen from the Mesopotamian collection of the Oriental Institute Museum of the University of Chicago, this website tells the story of ancient Mesopotamia now present-day Iraq — a story shared by all humans. Learn more about Life in Mesopotamia.” |
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The Biographical Memoir of James Henry Breasted, 1865-1935
A Very Important Rockford Native!
The Biographical Memoir of James Henry Breasted, 1865-1935, was written by John A. Wilson and presented to the National Academy of Science in 1936. "James Henry Breasted was the first American whose profession was ancient history. He brought to America the realization that our cultural ancestry is rooted in the distant past and made European scholars aware of the peculiar contribution which American scholarship might make to humanistic research. Although he was essentially an historian and his life was devoted to a study of the "career of man," he insisted that this study could not be divorced from the data presented by the physical and natural scientists. He gave active support to research in geology and palaeontology, in order that the story of man's sojourn on this planet might be as complete as possible." |
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Oriental Institute's New Exhibit Examines Its Founding Father, James Henry Breasted
From the Chicago Tribune, January 19, 2010
“New exhibit tells tale of James Henry Breasted, whose 1919-1920 travels through the Middle East established center's famed antiquities collection.” |
Pioneers to the Past: American Archaeologists in the Middle East, 1919–20
From the Oriental Institute
“’Pioneers to the Past: American Archaeologists in the Middle East, 1919-1920,’ will be on display at the Oriental Institute from January 12 through August 31, 2010. The exhibit follows Illinois native James Henry Breasted's daring travels through Egypt and Mesopotamia in the unstable aftermath of World War I. Breasted, a leading Egyptologist, was the founder of the Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago, and this journey was the first Oriental Institute project. The goals of his ambitious expedition were to acquire artifacts for the new Institute and to select sites for later excavation.” |
Local Newspaper Article about James Henry Breasted
From the Rockford Register Star
This article comes from the January 10, 2010, edition of the Rockford Register Star. |
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