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World History for Us All is a national collaboration of K-12 teachers, collegiate instructors, and educational technology specialists. It is a project of the National Center for History in the Schools, a division of the Public History Iniative, Department of History, UCLA.
Each of the nine Big Eras of world history, plus the History, Geography, and Time and the Past and Future sections, offers one Panorama Teaching Unit. Panorama units address very large-scale developments in world history.
K–12 educators generally agree that young Americans graduating from high school should have knowledge of world history, geography, and contemporary affairs. A world history education should include the whole world and not just part of it.
World History for Us All is designed for middle and high school educators across the United States, as well as in other countries. It does not specifically correlate with the content standards for public schools in any particular state.
World history educators, however, have been requesting a vital, intermediate type of resource: fully developed models for organizing and teaching a world history course. World History for Us All offers a model for teachers to consider, select from, or adopt.
Assess the significance of key turning points in world history. Describe the development and explain the significance of distinctive forms of political, social, and economic organization. Identify major discoveries, inventions, and scientific achievements, and assess their impact on society.
World history is a subject that embraces all humanity, not just certain nations, ethnic groups, or civilizations. Why should schools ask teachers and students to investigate a subject that encompasses the whole world and its peoples?
World History for Us All is a project of the UCLA Department of History's Public History Initiative, National Center for History in the Schools. Project Support
In a seamless world-scale narrative, World History: The Big Eras brings together nine essays that appear in World History for Us All. Published in workbook format, this volume will be a valuable companion to all educators who use the electronic resources of World History for Us All.
Every one of these skills requires specific historical content in order to function--a relationship that is made explicit in Chapters 3 and 4, which presents the standards integrating historical understandings and thinking for history for grades 5-12.