World History Project 1200 to the Present
Ideal for states where high-school world history begins just before the Columbian Exchange and continues through today.
9–12
3–12
How We’re Different
The World History Project (WHP) course isn’t a typical march through time. Rather than teach history as a disconnected series of people and events, we strive to create a context through which students understand the past, orient themselves to the present, and prepare for the future.
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Aligned: We’ve worked with many states and educators to ensure our world-history course is aligned to the vast majority of state standards for world history.
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Grounded in research and best practices: OER Project works with teachers, scholars, and learning scientists to incorporate and share the latest learning insights and approaches.
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Adaptable: Our built-in scaffolding tools allow you to meet a range of learning contexts and abilities in your classroom.
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Skills-forward: Our course connects fundamental reading, writing, and critical-thinking skills to the content.
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Professional development: OER Project teacher training is aligned to the curriculum and includes self-paced and real-time opportunities to advance your practice whenever works best for you.
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Community: the OER Project Online Teacher Community is a supportive and helpful place for educators to get and share support, ideas, and inspiration.
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Compatible: All course materials are downloadable, printable, and compatible for integration with the LMS of your choice. We also support Clever single sign-on and Google Classroom integration.
Take a Closer Look
Preview a selection of essential course materials and resources to help you decide if this course is a good fit for your teaching needs.
NEED TO BEGIN YOUR WORLD HISTORY COURSE WITH THE EARLIEST HUMANS OR THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION?
Boost Skills Development with Supplemental Units
These short courses are the perfect way to extend an existing history or language arts curriculum.
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Articles 36
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Videos 25
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Activities 16
Climate Project Extension
A supplemental unit that starts with evidence and ends with student-developed plans to reach net carbon zero by 2050.
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Articles 16
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Activities 8
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Closing 1
Project X: Teach Data Exploration and Analysis
Help students understand and use data to confront urgent world topics such as poverty, democracy, and climate. This 2-week supplement is designed for high-school students and includes 10 data-exploration exercises that lead up to a final class presentation.
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Prompts 25
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Activities 13
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Guide 3
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Assignments 25
Project Score: Includes Automated Essay Scoring
Help students gain historical writing and literacy skills. Project Score includes lessons, tools, prompts, and automated essay scoring—an ideal supplement to extend your existing high-school social studies course.
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