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Suggested Activities & Resources
Suggested Activities & Resources
Fairbanks History Day: https://www.k12northstar.org/Page/8806
Kids Voting
The Choices Program (https://www.choices.edu/about/meeting-standards/)
Books
Books
Bring History Alive! A Sourcebook for Teaching World History
by Dunn & Vigilante
National Council for the Social Studies in the Schools, 1996 (978-0-963-32186-2)
The Human Web: A Bird’s-Eye View of World History by John & Robert McNeil
W.W. Norton & Company, 2003
(978-0-965-73965-8)
A People’s History of the United States: 1492 to the Present by Howard Zinn
Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2005
(978-0-060-83865-2)
Global Issues
Global Issues
The Choices Program (https://www.choices.edu/about/meeting-standards/)
Kid Voting
Global issues project rubric
Fairbanks History Day: https://www.k12northstar.org/Page/8806
Compare and contrast Enlightenment ideals of equality with social Darwinism.
Compare and contrast Gandhi and Mandela's tactics to gain independence and the conditions that existed prior to independence.
Map the countries of the Soviet Union before and after the end of the Cold War.
Simulate a trade dispute that is to be resolved by the World Trade Organization, based upon a real scenario.
Debate the ethics of certain conditions tied to funds loaned by the World Bank to a LEDC.
Compare the standards of living in various countries using Hungry Planet by Peter Menzel (2007) and If the World were a Village by David J. Smith (2011).
Research 2+ MNC and determine its profit, wages paid, work conditions and other variables, and rate them based upon defined criteria.
Worldmapper for cartograms and import/export information (www.worldmapper.org).
Read and analyze the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Trace the major events that led to the writing of the declaration.
World History 1, 2, and Honors
World History 1, 2, and Honors
Code of Hammurabi: A Babylonian law code (est. 1772 B.C.)
Poem: Epic of Gilgamesh by Mesopotamia
Feudal contract
Black Death game/simulation
Crusades simulation
Mapping
Individual mini-research presentations
Book: The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli (1532)
Selling Indulgences simulation
Cause and effect timeline
Conceptual timeline
Philosophers Road Trip simulation
Poem: The White Man’s Burden by Rudyard Kipling (1899)
Industrial Revolution Web Quest
Manuscript: Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx (1848)
Collaboration with English 10/All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Remarque (1929)
Book: Night by Elie Wiesel (1960), (Included in the ELA curriculum)
Book: Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank (1947)
Book: Daniel’s Story by Carol Matas (1993)
U.S. Holocaust Museum (www.ushmm.org)
Dr. Strangelove, film (1964)
Atomic Café, documentary film (1982)
Book: Hiroshima by John Hersey (1984)
Book: Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes by Eleanor Coerr (1997).
Choices Curriculum Units, The Choices Program. History and Current Issues for the Classroom (www.choices.edu)
Hotel Rwanda, film (2004)
Amanda: A Revolution in Four Part Harmony film (2002)
The Gods Must be Crazy, film (1980)
Kids Voting
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