This introductory session explores approaches to teaching world history that center inquiry, historical thinking, and multiple perspectives across time and place.
Building on the big questions, historical thinking, and resources introduced in the Content Session, experienced classroom educators will lead a hands-on workshop focused on applying the inquiry-based instructional framework that will guide the World History Eras series.
Investigate the origins of humanity through the evidence early people left behind, exploring how historians, archaeologists, and scientists reconstruct the earliest chapters of human history.
Building on the content and sources from this era’s Content Session, experienced classroom educators will lead a hands-on workshop exploring inquiry-based, standards-aligned instructional approaches and classroom applications for teaching this era.
Explore the emergence of cities, societies, and empires across Africa, Asia, and the Americas while examining how religious, political, technological, and social developments shaped the ancient world.
Building on the content and sources from this era’s Content Session, experienced classroom educators will lead a hands-on workshop exploring inquiry-based, standards-aligned instructional approaches and classroom applications for teaching this era.
Investigate the trade routes and networks of cultural exchange that connected Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Americas, shaping societies through the movement of people, goods, ideas, and technologies.
Building on the content and sources from this era’s Content Session, experienced classroom educators will lead a hands-on workshop exploring inquiry-based, standards-aligned instructional approaches and classroom applications for teaching this era. Participants will apply the series’ unit planning framework to develop compelling and supporting questions that guide student inquiry and historical thinking. All Pedagogy Sessions […]
Explore how expanding global connections between 1400 and 1800 transformed societies, economies, cultures, and systems of power across the world.
Building on the content and sources from this era’s Content Session, experienced classroom educators will lead a hands-on workshop exploring inquiry-based, standards-aligned instructional approaches and classroom applications for teaching this era.