Free World History Curriculum by Katrena

 

World History Resources by Katrena

Free World History resources abound on the Internet, but I could not find a free version that was comprehensive to use as a high school homeschooling resource, so I made my own. Since I put over 300 hours into this project, I decided to share these resources with my Student Survive 2 Thrive readers as well!

This resource is based on Holt McDougal's 2012 World History: Patterns of Interactions textbook. I found that textbook to be quite informative and it has a variety of learning opportunities with each chapter; however, you'll probably want to supplement with information from 2012 to today. 

My daughter was getting a little overwhelmed with the end of chapter questions, so I decided to simplify and make my own simple, straightforward quiz focusing on each chapter. I put my questions and answer into Google Classroom and made each one open notes so she would be engaged and focused as she read each chapter and provided unlimited attempts for her to achieve a perfect score if she wanted to do so.

You can find each of my 36 quizzes in the following links. Each chapter quiz includes 10-20 questions with the correct answer directly following each question. The answers have a bold outline. Many of the incorrect answers also provide opportunity for further learning. Since these were screen shots, I also included captions for anyone who is hearing impaired or if it is difficult to see the bold outline on any of my slides. The graphics for my quizzes are from Pixabay and include a related photo - this could also be an opportunity for further discovery.

I have found that many of my college students enjoy games, so I entered all of my world history quizzes into Kahoot! These games can be played alone or with a group and have a timer of 20 seconds per question. I use the free version by clicking "Continue with Basic" on the entry screen.

My daughter enjoys videos, so I located free YouTube videos related to the topics from each chapter and have included the title and URL for each video at each link below. I copied and pasted these into Google Classroom and then cut the URLs to provide a link directly through the classroom.

You are welcome to use as many or as few of these resources as you wish. If you know of others who are looking for world history resources, I'd love for you to direct them to my blog!

World History

Week 1: The Peopling of the World: Prehistory to 2500 B.C.   

Week 2: Early River Valley Civilizations 3500 B.C. to 450 B.C.  

Week 3:  People and Ideas on the Move from 2000 B.C. to 250 B.C. 

Week 4: First Age of Empires 1570 B.C. to A.D. 200  

Week 5: Classical Greece 2000 B.C. to 300 B.C. 

Week 6: Ancient Rome and Early Christianity 500 B.C. to A.D. 500  

Week 7: India and China Establish Empires 400 B.C. to A.D. 550  

Week 8: African Civilizations 1500 B.C. to A.D. 700 

Week 9: The Americas 40,000 B.C. to A.D. 700 

Week 10: The Muslim World 600-1250 

Week 11: Byzantines, Russians, Turks 500-1500 

Week 12: Empires in East Asia 600-1350 

Week 13: European Middle Ages 500-1200 

Week 14: The Formation of Western Europe 800-1500 

Week 15: Societies and Empires of Africa 800-1500  

Week 16: People and Empires in the Americas 500-1500 

Week 17: European Renaissance and Reformation 1300-1600 

Week 18: The Muslim World Expands 1300-1700

Week 19: Age of Explorations and Isolation 1400-1800 

Week 20: The Atlantic World 1492-1800 

Week 21: Absolute Monarchs in Europe 1500-1800

Week 22: Enlightenment and American Revolution 1550-1789 

Week 23: The French Revolution and Napoleon 1789-1815 

Week 24: Nationalist Revolutions Sweep the West 1789-1900  

Week 25: The Industrial Revolution 1700-1900  

Week 26: Age of Democracy and Progress 1815-1914 

Week 27: Age of Imperialism 1850-1914 

Week 28: Transformations Around the Globe 1800-1914 

Week 29: The Great War (World War I) 1914-1918 

Week 30: Revolution and Nationalism 1900-1939 

Week 31: Years of Crisis 1919-1939 

Week 32: World War II 1939-1945 

Week 33: Restructuring the Postwar World: 1945-2012 

Week 34: The Colonies Become New Nations 1945-2012 

Week 35: Struggles for Democracy 1945-2012 

Week 36: Global Interdependence 1960-2012 

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