Tim MacBain

This is a pack of two excellent projects which allow students to research, explore, and discuss major issues facing today's societies. With special focus on issues they'll hear about on the news and around the dinner table, these projects are designed to use each student's curiosity about different topics to educate the entire class. For each of the two projects here, you'll receive handouts which explain the requirements clearly to students, as well as the rubrics/grade sheets used to score and

This Current World Project asks students to research a major international issue (of their choosing) and present their findings to the class in a short presentation and two-page paper. I have found over my ten year career that this project is a perfect way to ask all types of students to get familiar with modern conflicts and find out the deeper meanings of what they see on the news, without expecting too much detail from them. Besides the two to three days of library research time I suggest, cl

Divided by Units of study, and subdivided by type of resource, this extensive list of AP/Honors/Academic level World History classroom resources makes any gap in your curriculum easily found and easily resolved. For each era of World History, you'll get a list of: Primary Source Excerpts, Artistic Works, Charts, Graphs, Maps: about 18-25 per era. Extended Reading: Not just a list of books, but the specific page numbers in which that historical era is covered, along with short explanations as to