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Project based learning for Agricultural Revolution through the fall of Second Wave Empires. Includes scaffolding events, powerpoints, worksheets, project description, rubric, and more. Complete unit which should take roughly 3 weeks to complete. Students are placed in a zombie apocalypse and must use create a successful civilization which then develops into an empire based on the "principles of empires" case studies.

Students move through each level of Bloom's Taxonomy on a daily basis while also doing so throughout the entire unit. This unit takes students through Antebellum Reformers, analyzing a variety of primary sources (including: Frederick Douglass's "Fourth of July Speech," compare and contrast maps on the growth of slavery, and Lincoln-Douglass debates) and participate in cooperative learning activities with the purpose of creating their own solution to slavery, jigsaw learning, and group developme

This unit covers the fall of Rome through the end of the Crusades/Black Death. Students will use document analysis, synthesis of multiple sources, cause-effect relationships, and current events in order to gain depth of knowledge concerning the relationship between the Middle East and Western Nations. Their goal: propose a solution to a real and modern problem in the region.

This is a PowerPoint designed to introduce and explain the purpose of Project Based Learning. It addresses parent concerns such as State Testing, lack of authentic learning, and undering the content. It also explains the purpose of the new approach to education and research which supports the claims. This is all accomplished through cartoons, pictures, brief quotes, and video clips.

This chart is a useful tool for students to compare the standard characteristics of early river-valley civilizations. Students will analyze the similarities of civilizations which developed along similar paths while being independent of each other.

AP World History Syllabus for the 2013-2014 school year.