The World History Teacher’s Guide contains detailed information about teaching to the big ideas, suggestions for multiple classroom use, 76 mini cases, and guidelines for using World History in a case study format. This comprehensive resource, provided in PDF format, demonstrates the many ways in which teaching for thinking may be implemented with World History materials.

WORLD HISTORY TEACHER’S GUIDE TABLE OF CONTENTS I INTRODUCTION TO THE CD-ROM 4 What are the big ideas? 4   Performance skills 5   Performance criteria 7   World History CD-ROM contents 7   World History chapter contents 10   Operation and navigation 15       II TEACHING STRATEGIES 16   Whole class viewing 16   Individual viewing in a computer lab 17   Small group viewing 17   Independent self-paced study on selected topics 18   Enrichment in home assignments 18   Using a case study approach 19   Introduction to case method teaching 19       Cases in Chapter 1: View from the 21st century: 23       Cases in Chapter 2: The Paleoliths 27       Cases in Chapter 3: The Neoliths 32       Cases in Chapter 4: Ancient Civilizations 37       Cases in Chapter 5: The Middle Ages 65       Cases in Chapter 6: The Renaissance 72       Cases in Chapter 7: The Enlightenment 78       Cases in Chapter 8: Twentieth Century: First Half 85       Cases in Chapter 9: Twentieth Century: Second Half 91       III SUPPLEMENTARY TEACHING MATERIALS 99       IV EVALUATION AND ASSESSMENT 100   Student presentations, project work, written assignments and field studies 102   Using follow-up activities as qualitative assessment tools 102   Self-evaluation tools 104

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