Teaching Guides: Instructional Strategies & Course Guides
OER Project Instructional Strategies
Check out our Teaching Guides to get inspiration to fine-tune your teaching moves and amplify your impact. Read during your prep and be ready to rock next period.
Historical Thinking Skills
Develop the skills needed to analyze history and think like a historian.
Using AI Tools with OER Project
Transform your classroom with AI tools aligned to OER Project materials.
Data Literacy
Clear, concise strategies to help teach data literacy and build student confidence with data visualizations.
Writing Strategies
Strategies for instructing and supporting both formal and informal writing.
Reading Approach
An approach to reading to help students dig into a variety of texts.
Reading Strategies
Reading strategies to help students dig into a variety of texts.
Instructional Activities
Explore OER Project’s different activity types.
Assessments
Learn about OER Project’s approach to assessment.
Vocabulary Strategies
Strategies and routines for building vocabulary.
Differentiating Instruction
Research-backed strategies for differentiation, modification, and adaptation.
Video Strategies
Tips for ensuring videos are engaging and instructive.
Openers/Closers
Strategies to open and close a lesson.
Graphic Biographies
How to incorporate graphic biographies into the classroom.
Graphic Biographies Placement
See where the graphic biographies are placed across courses.
Teaching Sensitive Topics
Support for having discussions that are difficult, but meaningful.
Discussion Guide
Tips for facilitating discussions with students.
OER Project: Big History
Getting ready to teach middle-school social studies? Steer your students’ learning across 13.8 billion years with course guides that help you navigate the narrative.
Big History Course Standards Alignment
Information about how Big History aligns with social studies and geography standards.
Big History FAQ
Quick answers to the most common questions about the course.
Big History Practice Progression Placement
Quickly locate any and all of the historical thinking skills activities in this course.
OER Project: Climate
Get clear on how you'll teach OER Project: Climate to guide your students to think critically about how they can impact the future of our planet and become climate-change innovators.
OER Project: World History
History is ever-evolving and so should the way we teach it. Keep up the pace with fresh material, bold questions, and zero tolerance for boredom.
World History Course Standards Alignment
Information about how World History courses align to social studies standards.
World History Origins Course Overview
Learn about the specific periodization, unit structure and learning objectives, and frames narratives of World History Origins.
World History 1200 Course Overview
Learn about the specific periodization, unit structure and learning objectives, and frames narratives of World History 1200.
World History 1750 Course Overview
Learn about the specific periodization, unit structure and learning objectives, and frames narratives of World History 1750.
World History AP® Syllabus
Lesson-by-lesson, see exactly how WH AP® aligns with the AP® World History: Modern CED.
World History AP Course Guide
Learn about the approach, structure, and materials in OER Project: World History AP—a course fully aligned to the AP® World History: Modern Course and Exam Description (CED).
World History: Origins Practice Progression Placement
Quickly locate any and all of the historical thinking skills activities in this course.
World History: 1200 Practice Progression Placement
Quickly locate any and all of the historical thinking skills activities in this course.
World History: 1750 Practice Progression Placement
Quickly locate any and all of the historical thinking skills activities in this course.
World History: AP Practice Progression Placement
Quickly locate any and all of the historical thinking skills activities in this course.
World History Frames
A clear framework helps students examine history through different frames.
World History FAQ
Quick answers to the most common questions about the course.
World History AP FAQ
Quick answers to the most common questions about the AP course.
World History Maps
Maps galore! Explore zoomable political and thematic maps ranging from 300 BCE to 1975 CE.
World History Formal Writing Opportunities
Quickly locate DBQs and LEQs in all OER Project: World History courses.
World History Maptivities Archive
Maptivities! See how OER Project geography activities align across our World History courses.