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.

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

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

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

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

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

There’s a lot of history before humans. The stuff that happened in the distant past can be useful to know, if we turn it into stories, or accounts, based on evidence.

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.

History can be the last 14 billion years of the universe, or the last 60 seconds of your life. In either case, details will be left out, and you’ll need a historian’s skills to discover a meaningful narrative

This activity introduces one of the foundational practices in WHP – Three Close Reads. Here, students will learn this process, while reading the Era 1 Overview.

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!

Collective learning allows us to share, store, and pass on information. Its development was a transformational episode in human history, and still affects us today.

Who? Where? Why? These are crucial questions a historian must ask of every text they read. This important skill is called sourcing.

What can a crying man teach you about contextualization? As it turns out, quite a bit!

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 introduces the communities frame and provides a story of our changing human communities across history.

This video introduces the networks frame and provides a story of human networks and connections across history.

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

You’ve just watched four videos on frames. Show what you’ve learned by drawing them!

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.

In this final vocab activity of the era, students move beyond simply defining words to applying them, therefore solidify their understanding and use of the words in context.

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

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

The Big History story of the universe—and humanity’s place in it—is told from two perspectives that are outlined in this article.

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.

How has your understanding changed since the beginning of the era? Time to revisit the EP 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.