TeachBook Learning Hub
This section is designed to support and extend your learning beyond the classroom. Here, you will find carefully organized materials, lessons, and activities that align with what we are studying in class. You are encouraged to explore the content at your own pace—whether you are reviewing past topics, reinforcing your understanding, or preparing for upcoming lessons.
In this unit, you’ll practice thinking like a historian. You’ll review important skills from sixth grade, like how to use primary and secondary sources, read timelines, and understand geography. These skills will help you get ready to learn more about world history this year. You’ll also get a chance to improve what you already know and make new connections in reading and writing.
1.1 : Asking Questions About the Past
Essential Question: Why do we study the past, and how can it help us make better decisions for the future?
1.2 Using Evidence to Understand History
Essential Question: How do primary and secondary sources help us understand the past and its impact on the future?
1.3 Tools for Studying Time and Place
Essential Question: How do timelines and geography tools help us learn about history and the world?
1.4 Comparing Civilizations and Daily Life
Essential Question: How do frameworks like GRAPES and financial decision-making help us compare civilizations and understand quality of life?
In this unit, you’ll learn about the Age of Exploration and why it was important. You’ll discover how and why people started exploring the world by sea and how their journeys changed the world. You’ll also learn about famous explorers, trade routes, and what motivated people to explore new places. This time in history helped connect different parts of the world for the first time. Some of these changes were exciting, but others caused problems for the people who were already living in the places being explored.
2.1 : Why Did Exploration Begin?
Essential Question: What motivated Europeans to explore, and what challenges pushed them to seek new trade routes?
2.2 Tools, Technology, and the Race to Explore
Essential Question: What tools and innovations helped Europeans explore new parts of the world, and how did competition for resources shape exploration?
2.3 Explorers and Their Lasting Impact
Essential Question: Who were the major explorers of the Age of Exploration, and how do their actions continue to shape the world today?
2.4 A More Connected World
Essential Question: How did global exploration lead to increased cultural exchange, and why did the historical context make this era so impactful?
In this unit, you’ll learn how exploration led to colonization and the rise of powerful empires. You’ll explore how the Columbian Exchange, the Atlantic Slave Trade, and the Dutch East India Company changed history. You’ll also learn how colonization affected both the countries that took over and the people whose land was taken. These events had major effects on trade, power, and daily life around the world.
3.1 : A New World Connected
Essential Question: What was the Columbian Exchange, and how did it change the world?
3.2 Building Empires and Taking Land
Essential Question: How did European colonization affect both indigenous peoples and the colonizing countries?
3.3 Trade, Power, and Disease
Essential Question: How did disease and global trade systems shape the New World's economy and society?
3.4 Slavery and Its Lasting Impact
Essential Question: What were the Atlantic Slave Trade and Middle Passage, and how do their effects still shape the world today?
In this unit, you’ll learn how new ideas about power and knowledge helped change the world. During the Age of Absolutism, kings and queens had strong control, but people started asking questions about fairness and freedom. The Scientific Revolution and Protestant Reformation helped spark a search for truth. These changes led more people—especially the middle class—to want a bigger voice in their government and society.
Unit 4- TechBook Questions
4.1 : Kings, Queens, and Absolute Power
Essential Question: What was life like under absolute rulers from the 1400s to the 1700s, and how did they control society?
4.2 A New Way of Thinking
Essential Question: Why was the Enlightenment a turning point in history, and how did it challenge ideas about knowledge and power?
4.3 Growing Calls for Rights and Democracy
Essential Question: Why did ideas about democracy and human rights grow during the Enlightenment?
4.4 Revolutions and Declarations
Essential Question: How did the Declaration of Independence and the Declaration of the Rights of Man help change societies and expectations of government?
In this unit, you’ll learn about a time when people all over the world stood up for change. After learning new ideas during the Enlightenment, many citizens began to fight for freedom and fairer governments. From the late 1700s to the mid-1800s, revolutions took place in Europe and the Americas. These movements helped bring big changes, like limiting the power of kings and creating new kinds of governments.
Unit 5- TechBook Questions
5.1 : New Ideas, New Demands
Essential Question: How did Enlightenment ideas inspire people to demand change and start revolutions?
5.2 Revolutions Around the World
Essential Question: How did the American, French, Haitian, and Latin American Revolutions change society and politics?
5.3 Documents That Changed the World
Essential Question: How did the Declaration of Independence and the Declaration of the Rights of Man influence modern democracy and European governments?
5.4 The Legacy of Revolution
Essential Question: Why did democracy gain popularity after these revolutions, and how did societies continue to change?
In this unit, you’ll learn how the Industrial Revolution changed the way people lived and worked. New machines, like steam engines and trains, made travel and communication faster. Many people moved to cities to work in factories instead of on farms. These changes helped shape the modern world, including jobs, transportation, and daily life as we know it today.
Unit 6- TechBook Questions
6.1 : A New Age of Invention
Essential Question: How did the Industrial Revolution expand technology and change the way people lived and worked?
6.2 Changing Lives and Communities
Essential Question: How did the Industrial Revolution change where people lived and how they made personal economic choices?
6.3 Global Economies and Environmental Change
Essential Question: How did industrialism reshape the global economy and impact the environment?
6.4 Workers Fight for Rights
Essential Question: How did industrialization lead to social change and the rise of labor movements around the world?
In this unit, you’ll learn about the causes and effects of World War I. The war began in 1914 because of tensions from militarism, alliances, imperialism, and nationalism, along with the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. New technology made the war more deadly and changed how future wars would be fought. The war ended with the Treaty of Versailles, which punished Germany and led to major changes around the world.
Unit 7- TechBook Questions
7.1 : The World on Edge
Essential Question: What caused World War I to begin, and how did imperialism and nationalism contribute to the growing tension?
7.2 A New Kind of War
Essential Question: What made World War I different from other global conflicts, and how did it inspire new technology?
7.3 War’s End and Global Impact
Essential Question: What were the effects of World War I on nations, empires, and people around the world?
7.4 Peace or Punishment?
Essential Question: How did the Treaty of Versailles shape the postwar world and future global conflicts?
In this unit, you’ll learn about the time between World War I and World War II. After World War I ended, the Treaty of Versailles left many countries, especially Germany, struggling with money and new borders. Hard times made it easier for powerful leaders, called dictators, to take control in places like Germany, Italy, and Japan. These leaders used propaganda to control what people thought, and their extreme ideas helped lead the world into another war.
Unit 8- TechBook Questions
8.1 : A Fragile Peace
Essential Question: Were the Treaty of Versailles and the League of Nations effective examples of global cooperation?
8.2 Struggling Economies, Shifting Politics
Essential Question: How did economic hardships in the 1930s lead to major political changes around the world?
8.3 The Power of Persuasion
Essential Question: Why is propaganda successful in shaping public opinion, especially during crisis?
8.4 The Rise of Dictators
Essential Question: What makes a leader effective, and how did dictatorships gain support and set the stage for World War II?
In this unit, you’ll learn how World War II started, what happened during the war, and how it affected people’s lives. The war began partly because problems from World War I were never fully solved and because dictators had taken control in several countries. The two sides were the Axis Powers (Germany, Italy, and Japan) and the Allied Powers (the U.S., France, Britain, and the Soviet Union). The war caused major changes for people around the world.
Unit 9- TechBook Questions
9.1 : The Road to War
Essential Question: How did economic troubles and the rise of powerful dictators lead to World War II?
9.2 War and Technology
Essential Question: How did technological advancements shape the fighting and outcomes of World War II?
9.3 Propaganda and the Home Front
Essential Question: How did propaganda influence civilians and shape public opinion during World War II?
9.4 The Holocaust and Global Consequences
Essential Question: What were the causes and effects of the Holocaust and other genocides, and how did World War II change the world?
IIn this unit, you’ll learn what happened after World War II and how it led to the Cold War. The United States and the Soviet Union became the world’s two superpowers but had very different ideas about government. They didn’t fight each other directly, but they supported other countries in smaller wars, like in Korea and Vietnam. The U.S. tried to stop the spread of communism, while the Soviet Union supported it. During this time, many new nations were formed, and some religious groups moved to new places.
Unit 10- TechBook Questions
10.1 : Building a New World Order
Essential Question: What is the United Nations, why was it formed, and how effective is it at promoting global cooperation?
10.2 Rivalries Beyond the Battlefield
Essential Question: How did the Space Race reflect the competition between the US and the Soviet Union during the Cold War?
10.3 New Nations and New Conflicts
Essential Question: How did the emergence of new nations after World War II lead to peace or conflict around the world?
10.4 Cold War Tensions and Proxy Wars
Essential Question: What caused the Cold War, and how did proxy wars shape global tensions and impacts?
In this unit, you’ll learn about today’s conflicts and challenges around the world. Many of these problems come from human rights issues, like genocide and people having to leave their homes as refugees. You’ll also learn how natural disasters affect communities and how new technology can help but sometimes cause problems too.
Unit 11- TechBook Questions
11.1 : Technology and Global Connections
Essential Question: How does technology impact how people and nations interact around the world today?
11.2 Peace and Conflict in a Diverse World
Essential Question: How do we find peace in a world with increasing cultural divisions?
11.3 Crisis and Human Impact
Essential Question: What are the causes and effects of genocide, refugee migration, natural disasters, and disease on societies?
11.4 Choices and Challenges in a Global World
Essential Question: How do personal financial decisions and national actions affect quality of life and responses to global challenges?