The Human Experience

World History and Geography

• China
• Middle east and brief background on the conflict?
• World religions
• The Global Warming Debate
• Mesoamerica
  • Meso Unit Overivew
• Rome
  Roman History Unit Plan Overview
• Greece
  Unit Focus

• Intro
• Early Civilizations
• The World in Spatial Terms - Concept 1 - S4
• Research Skills for History - Concept 1 - S2

China Unit End Experience

Exams

• FINAL EXAM
  The real exam
• FINAL EXAM ESSAY TEST
• China Dynasties Exam
  

  PodCasts on China
  Omar/Jason	Sergy
  Jackie	Jayme
  Karo	Linda, Natalie, Elia
  Lou	Hector/JJ
  Pete/Johnny
  Andres	Denise

• 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

• 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

• 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).

Strand 2:  World History

Strand 4: Geography

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