Time to draw! Believe it or not, but looking at a history of your own life is a great way to start thinking about an important concept: scale.

The World History Project connects the people, places and events of history from the past to the present, to help create ways to think about the future

What’s so “dangerous” about story telling? Author Chimamanda Adichie explores how the way we tell and hear stories shape our understanding of the world around us.

Personalized vocab! In the Vocab – Tracking worksheet, students will be able to track and add words as they progress through the unit.

The UP Notebook is a recurring activity in every unit. Students answer the Unit Problem at the beginning of the unit and again at the end to show how their thinking has changed.

Build a whole class Word Wall using Unit 1 vocab. Dancing encouraged.

This vocab guide provides a summary of the key vocabulary for the unit.

Vocab cards for each of the key words in this unit.

Was it really the straw that broke the camel’s back? Through the tragic tale of Alphonse the Camel, students will begin to explore cause and consequence.

The stories we tell about the past and how we choose to frame them can change how we understand history. But you also need to learn to test claims and historical narratives.

This activity introduces one of the foundational practices in WHP – Three Close Reads. Here, students will learn this process, while reading “The Rise of the West?”.

We learn history stories because they are meaningful. But to use them effectively, we need to explore how they are made and interpreted. That’s what Unit 1 is about.

Do you know where the Disappointment Islands are? What about Middlefart? Find these (real!) locations, and get to know the WHP world maps in this fun activity.

Check out the Maps Index, a one-stop shop for all the WHP world maps!

Students engage in a deeper exploration of the unit’s vocabulary by having them apply the terms to help solidify their understanding and use of the words in context.

This vocab guide provides a summary of the key vocabulary for the unit.

Vocab cards for each of the key words in this unit.

We encounter countless claims every day. How do we evaluate them? Here you’ll be introduced to the WHP Claim Testers: authority, logic, intuition, and evidence.

This video introduces the core concept of “frames” and guides student to understand how they are used, and useful, in interpreting the past

This video provides a story of our changing human communities throughout history and introduces the World History Project communities frame.

This video introduces the networks frame and provides a story of human networks and connections since 1200 CE.

This video introduces the production and distribution frame and tells a story of our changing human work and economies across history.

After watching the opening frames videos, students construct visual representations of the frames, and perhaps come up with definitions of each frame in their own words.

This activity introduces students to the WHP Three Close Reads for Graphic Bios Tool. Students will learn this process from Trevor Getz, in comic form!

What do you see? What’s the author’s main idea? How does the comic connect to what you’re learning? Decode graphic biographies with this Three Close Reads tool!

History and memory often serve different purposes, but both can help us understand the world. Learn how in this graphic biography about one family’s history.

How has your understanding changed since the beginning of the unit? Time to revisit the UP Notebook!

Time to write your first WHP DBQ! And don’t worry, this is a baseline writing assessment—meaning you’ll get to try it again at the end of the course.