UCLA's National Center for History in the Schools and San Diego State University have teamed up to offer a free world history curriculum for middle school and high school years, complete with handouts, lesson plans and more.
World History for Us All is a nine-unit curriculum (with an additional unit under development) that focuses on the entire span of human history and beyond. Indeed, the first unit goes back 13 billion years.
Developers say:
World History for Us All:
- offers a treasury of teaching units, lesson plans, and resources.
- presents the human past as a single story rather than unconnected stories of many civilizations.
- helps teachers meet state and national standards.
- enables teachers to survey world history without excluding major peoples, regions, or time periods.
- helps students understand the past by connecting specific subject matter to larger historical patterns.
- draws on up-to-date historical research.
- may be readily adapted to a variety of world history programs.
The units are presented in PDF format, along with handouts, discussion questions and overhead sheets. Each unit is broken down into many smaller units. The curriculum is also designed to be tailored to meet individual needs, with flexibility about how it's presented and how in depth you choose to go.
You can view the units and their sections here. Click on a main unit to read the introduction page (scroll down from there to download its teaching chapters) or click on a sub-unit directly to view or download it in PDF form.
Topics covered include:
- Getting Our Bearings: Maps of time, space and history
- Farmers around the world 10,000 - 1500 BCE
- Early complex societies in the Americas
- Belief Systems in China: Confucianism, Daoism, and Buddhism
- Roman Art and Architecture
- Women’s Life in Ancient Rome
- West African Geography, Climate, and History
- Calamities and recoveries 1300-1500 CE
- Rulers with guns: the rise of powerful states
- The Protestant Reformation
- The Scientific Revolution
- Humans in a hurry: nineteenth-century migrations
- The causes and global consequences of World War I
- The Great Depression
- The world at warp speed: science, technology, and the computer revolution
Along with many, many more.
This is a great resource to accompany specific subjects you study with your children or as a complete curriculum.
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