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Big History Project Overview

Unit 1: What Is Big History?
1.0 Welcome to Big History
1.1 Scale
1.2 Origin Stories
1.3 Claim Testing
1.4 Yardsticks and Clocks

Unit 2: The Big Bang
2.0 The Big Bang
2.1 How Did Our Understanding of the Universe Change?
2.2 What Are Disciplines?
2.3 The Expanding Universe

Unit 3: Stars & Elements
3.0 How Were Stars Formed?
3.1 Creation of Complex Elements
3.2 Ways of Knowing – Stars and Elements
3.3 Sorting Stars
3.4 How Old Is the Sun?

Unit 4: Our Solar System & Earth
4.0 Earth & the Formation of Our Solar System
4.1 What Was Young Earth Like?
4.2 Why Is Plate Tectonics Important?
4.3 Ways of Knowing: Our Solar System and Earth
4.4 True Nature of Our Solar System
4.5 Exoplanets

Unit 5: Life
5.0 What Is Life?
5.1 How Did Life Begin and Change?
5.2 How Do Earth and Life Interact?
5.3 Ways of Knowing: Life
5.4 Impacts!

Unit 6: Early Humans
6.0 How Our Ancestors Evolved
6.1 Ways of Knowing: Early Humans
6.2 Collective Learning
6.3 How Did the First Humans Live?

Unit 7: Agriculture & Complex Societies
7.0 The Rise of Agriculture
7.1 The First Cities and States Appear
7.2 Ways of Knowing: Agriculture and Civilization
7.3 What Should We Eat?

Unit 8: Expansion & Interconnection
8.0 Expansion
8.1 Exploration & Interconnection
8.2 The Columbian Exchange
8.3 Commerce & Collective Learning

Origins to Present Overview

Unit 1: Origins of History
1.1 History Stories
1.2 History of Many Shapes and Sizes
1.3 History Frames
1.4 History and Memory

Unit 2: Early Humans
2.1 The Earliest Humans
2.2 Migration and Art
2.3 Foraging Societies
2.4 The Agricultural Revolution
2.5 The Biggest Mistake Humans Ever Made?
2.6 Unit 2 Writing Wrap Up

Unit 3: Early Agrarian Societies
3.1 Cities, Societies, and Empires
3.2 Foragers and Village Networks
3.3 Ancient Trade Networks
3.4 The First Cities, States, and Empires
3.5 Early Agrarian Societies Jigsaw
3.6 Unit 3 Writing Wrap Up

Unit 4: Empires and Belief Systems
4.1 Empires and Beliefs
4.2 Comparing Portable Belief Systems
4.3 How Do Religions Grow and Change?
4.4 Comparing Ancient Empires
4.5 Rome and Han China
4.6 Women in the Ancient World
4.7 Unit 4 Writing Wrap Up

Unit 5: Regional Webs
5.1 Collapse and Restructuring
5.2 Why Do Societies Collapse?
5.3 Assessing the Dark Age: Europe and China
5.4 Medieval Women
5.5 The Islamic World
5.6 The Silk Road
5.7 Unit 5 Writing Wrap Up

Unit 6: The First Global Age
6.1 The First Global Age
6.2 The Mongol Empire
6.3 Afro-Eurasian Networks
6.4 The Black Death
6.5 Cultural Exchange in Afro-Eurasia
6.6 Communities in West Africa, Oceania, and the Americas
6.7 Networks in the Americas
6.8 Origins of Transoceanic Connections
6.9 Transoceanic Connections: The Columbian Exchange
6.10 The Middle Passage
6.11 The Plantation System
6.12 Unit 6 Writing Wrap Up

Unit 7: The Long Nineteenth Century
7.1 The Long Nineteenth Century
7.2 Enlightenment and Revolution
7.3 Age of Revolution?
7.4 Nationalism
7.5 The Industrial Revolution
7.6 Comparing Industrialization in Egypt and Japan
7.7 Industrial Imperialism
7.8 Resisting Colonialism
7.9 Labor Movements
7.10 Abolitionism, Child Labor and Women’s Suffrage
7.11 Unit 7 Writing Wrap Up

1750 to Present Overview

Unit 1: The World in 1750
1.0 History Stories
1.1 History Frames
1.2 Scaling to Two Places in the World
1.3 Expanding to a Global Scale

Unit 2: Liberal and National Revolutions
2.0 Unit 2 Overview
2.1 Ingredients for Revolution
2.2 Revolutions Around the World
2.3 Nationalism

Unit 3: Industrialization
3.0 Unit 3 Overview
3.1 Origins of the Industrial Revolution
3.2 Global Industrialization

Unit 4: Labor and Society
4.0 Unit 4 Overview
4.1 Labor
4.2 The End of Slavery?
4.3 Gender

Unit 5: Imperialism, Colonialism, and Responses
5.0 Unit 5 Overview
5.1 The System of Imperialism
5.2 Colonialism
5.3 Responses to Colonialism

Unit 6: World War I
6.0 Unit 6 Overview
6.1 Origins of the First World War
6.2 Experiences and Outcomes

Unit 7: Interwar and World War II
7.0 Unit 7 Overview
7.1 Totalitarianism or Liberal Internationalism
7.2 The Road to War
7.3 World War II
7.4 Experiences and Outcomes

Unit 8: End of Empire and Cold War
8.0 Unit 8 Overview
8.1 The Cold War
8.2 End of Empire

1200 to Present Overview

Unit 1: Narratives and Frames
1.0 History Stories
1.1 Unit 1 Overview
1.2 History Frames

Unit 2: The Global Tapestry
2.0 Unit 2 Overview
2.1 Afro-Eurasia
2.2 Americas and the Pacific
2.3 Routes of Exchange
2.4 Consequences of Connectivity

Unit 3: Transoceanic Connections
3.0 Unit 3 Overview
3.1 Columbian Exchange
3.2 Early Modern Empires
3.3 Transoceanic Connections
3.4 The Transatlantic Slave Trade

Unit 4: Revolutions
4.0 Unit 4 Overview
4.1 Origins of Revolution
4.2 Revolutions Around the World
4.3 Nationalism

Unit 5: Industrialization
5.0 Unit 5 Overview
5.1 The Industrial Revolution Begins
5.2 Global Industrialization
5.3 Shifting Economics
5.4 Social Transformation

Unit 6: Empire & Other Consequences of Industrialization
6.0 Unit 6 Overview
6.1 The System of Imperialism
6.2 Colonialism
6.3 Responses to Colonialism

Unit 7: Global Conflict
7.0 Unit 7 Overview
7.1 Origins of World War
7.2 Experiences and Outcomes
7.3 Totalitarianism or Liberal Internationalism
7.4 World War II

Unit 0: Intro to World History
0.0 Early Humans
0.1 Cities, Societies, and Empires
0.2 Development of Portable Belief Systems
0.3 The Growth of Empires
0.4 Collapse and Restructuring

Unit 1: The Global Tapestry
1.0 History Stories
1.1 Intro to AP History
1.2 Developments in Asia
1.3 State Building in the Americas
1.4 Africa and Europe

Unit 2: Networks of Exchange
2.0 Unit 2 Overview
2.1 The Mongol Empire
2.2 Routes of Exchange
2.3 Consequences of Connectivity

Unit 3: Land-Based Empires
3.0 Unit 3 Overview
3.1 Empires Expand
3.2 Administration of Empires and Belief Systems

Unit 4: Transoceanic Interconnections
4.0 Technological Innovations and Exploration
4.1 Columbian Exchange
4.2 Transoceanic Empires: Expansion and Resistance
4.3 Transoceanic Interconnections: Changing Social Hierarchies

Unit 5: Revolutions
5.0 An Era of Revolutions
5.1 The Enlightenment and Origins of Revolution
5.2 Nationalism and Revolutions
5.3 The Industrial Revolution Begins
5.4 Global Industrialization
5.5 Economic Developments and Reactions to Industrialization
5.6 Social Transformation

Unit 6: Consequences of Industrialization
6.0 Unit 6 Overview
6.1 State Expansion and Economic Imperialism
6.2 Colonialism and Response
6.3 Industrialization Migration and Empire

Unit 7: Global Conflict
7.0 Shifting Power after 1900
7.1 Causes of World War I
7.2 World War I
7.3 From World War I to World War II
7.4 World War II
7.5 Mass Atrocities and the Effects of Global Conflict

Climate Project Overview

Unit 1: Introduction to Climate Change
1.1 Understanding Climate Change
1.2 Climate Disagreement
1.3 The Case for Climate Optimism
1.4 International Climate Goals

Unit 2: The Impacts of Climate Change
2.1 Evaluating Climate Impacts
2.2 Direct Impacts of Climate Change
2.3 Indirect Impacts of Climate Change
2.4 Climate Vocabulary

Unit 3: Adaptation and Innovation
3.1 Evaluating Climate Solutions
3.2 Climate Change Adaptation
3.3 The Need for Climate Innovation
3.4 Effective Climate Action
3.5 The Cost of Decarbonizing

Unit 4: Decarbonization
4.1 The Grand Challenges
4.2 Decarbonization Solutions
4.3 Implementing Decarbonization Strategies
4.4 A Climate Future

Unit 5: Taking Action
5.1 Climate Action: Careers
5.2 Climate Action: Solutions Presentation
5.3 Climate Action: Policy
5.4 Climate Action: Civic Action

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