The Human Experience

World History and Geography

• The Global Warming Debate
  
• China and the Geography of Asia
  
• MesoAmerica and 20th Century Latin America
• Rome
  
• Greece
  
• Egypt
  
• Cavemen
  
• Round the World Game
  
• The Five Themes of Geography and World Religions
• World Music
• Class Intro
• Intro to Geography
• 5 themes of Geography
• Course Outline

• The Countries Game
  Practice on this map, take the test with me and get one point per correct answer
• MapMachine
• Maps from the History channel
• Mapping the World With Web-based GIS
• Ptolemy's Historic Map
• Latin America Info Center/maps

• Geography and Map Skills Handbook
  These games ask questions related to Globes and Map Projections, Building Map Skills, and Reading Graphs and Charts
• GeoSpy and other games from National Geographic

• World History Articles for Extra

Video

• Venezuela's Hugo Chavez: "If You Want to be Rich, Go Away!"
• Chávez: "Venezuela es libre y mas nunca colonia
• History Channel Video
• Intro to college world history
• Art Images for World History
  First week intro for students of the year\'s World History art quiz images - over 50 art works in just over 60 seconds.
• Why study history
  Introductory video to Grade 9 world history students
• World History Course Introduction
  First week course introduction for high school World history.

1. Change and Tradition.

The dynamics of change and continuity across the world history periods covered in this course, and the causes and processes involved in major changes of these dynamics.

2. Getting Along with Other People

Patterns and effects of interaction among societies and regions: trade, war, diplomacy, and international organizations.

3. Human Impact

The effects of technology, economics, and demography on people and the environment (population growth and decline, disease, labor systems, manufacturing, migrations, agriculture, weaponry).

4. Customs and Tradition - Continuity - Systems of social structure and gender structure (comparing major features within and among societies, and assessing change and continuity).

5. Art, Music and Religion

Cultural, intellectual, and religious developments, including interactions among and within societies.

6. Political- Changes in functions and structures of states and in attitudes toward states and political identities
(political culture), including the emergence of the nation-state (types of political organization).

The Five Themes were developed by the National Council for Geographic Education to provide an organizing framework for the presentation of geographic materials.

The Five Themes are as follows:

1. Location: Position on the Earth's Surface (Absolute/Relative). Geographic study begins with the location of places on the earth. Places have absolute locations that pinpoint them on the earth, and relative locations that place each location in respect to other locations. For example, North Dakota has an absolute location that can be pointed to on any basic map. It also has a relative location in that it has a location within the economic system based on its characteristics and location within the world market. North Dakota has its absolute location's characteristics for soil and climate, yet the success of wheat growing is also related to its location to the edge of more expensive arm land to the east.

2. Place: Physical and Human Characteristics. Place have physical and human characteristics that make them what they are. Geography emphasizes the understanding of both of these factors and their integration together.

3. Human/Environment Interactions: Shaping the Landscape. The landscape of the earth is no longer a purely physical feature. Human have impact every area of the earth, but in varying ways. The geography of places is influenced by the degree to which humans have impacted their local environment.

4. Movement: Humans Interacting on the Earth. The postmodern world is one of great interaction between places. This movement is inherently geographic, whether it is by telecommunications or ship.

5. Regions: How They Form and Change. The essential geographic feature is the region. A region is any unit of space that is unified by the presence of some characteristic. The Corn Belt, stretching from Indiania to eastern Nebraska, is an area in which corn is a dominating product. The Corn Belt is a region within the United States.

Strand 2:  World History

Strand 4: Geography

• UCLA National Center for History in the Schools
• World History Units