Collections
of World History Lesson Plans
HistorySimulation.com
Engaging and interactive lesson plans. History simulations for the American
Civil War, Imperialism, World War One, World War Two, the Cold War, and
more!
World History
Lesson plans organized by grade level from
Discovery Education.
World History for Us All
An entire curriculum from UCLA.
Middle School World History and Geography
Free lesson plans, worksheets, activities, Power Points, and notes from a
middle school social studies teacher.
World History Lessons
More than 20 lesson plans from the
Stanford History
Education Group.
AP
World History Course Home Page
Many resources including "lesson plans
and teaching strategies from your AP colleagues."
Global
Issues
Lesson plans from the
N.Y. Times.
World History for
Teachers
Scroll down the page to find lesson plans and activities,
including many created by Mr. Donn.
World History Lesson Plans
From
TeAchnology.
Women in World History Curriculum
Biographies, reviews of classroom
resources on women's history, and 7 lesson plans.
World History Resources for Teachers
Teaching World History: An Idea Guide
From
Teaching History.
World History
Archives
A collection of online documents.
Teach with Movies
Information for creating world history lesson plans
using movies and film.
Historyteachers.net
All
sorts of resources and information.
World
History Sources
From George-Mason University
Prehistory Lesson Plans and Resources
Prehistory Internet
Links
Links to sites related to the
stone age.
The Old Stone Age and The New Stone Age
A 6th-grade lesson plan.
Stone Age
A 1st-grade lesson plan.
Ancient Cliff Dwellers
A lesson plan from
Reading a-z.com
using this
book
about the people who inhabited the area that is now Mesa
Verde National Park from prehistoric times to the present.
Cave
Art: Discovering Prehistoric Humans through Pictures
A K-2 lesson plan from Edsitement.
Prehistoric Native American Lesson Plan: Pottery-Making Methods
A
lesson plan for grades 3-12 from the
Illinois State Museum.
Pastel and Charcoal Cave Painting
A lesson plan for grades 7-12.
Neanderthal
A lesson plan for grades 6-8 from Discovery Education. See also
The Life and Culture of Neanderthal Humans,
Hunting and Gathering: Finding Evidence about Neanderthals,
A lesson plan from the NY Times. See also
The Human Spark
and
Modern Family.
Migration Theories
Lesson ideas and background information regarding
the land-bridge and coastal-route theories. For similar lesson plans, go to
Earliest Americans and Their Environments.
For background information, go to
Jeffers
Petroglyph Site
and Lake
Agassiz: The Ultimate Fishing Spot?
Investigating Human Descent: Formulating Explanations and Models
A lesson plan for grades 9-12 investigating the misconception that
humans evolved from apes.
How Did Humans Evolve?
A teacher's guide from PBS.
Human Evolution
A high school lesson plan from Discovery Education examining the
evolution of the human species.
What Does It
Mean to be Human?
Lesson plans on human evolution from the Smithsonian.
Prehistoric Climate Change and Why It Matters
A high-quality lesson
plan from
Smithsonian
Education.
Mammoth Mystery
An interactive resource Wisconsin Historical Society.
"Ardi" Lesson Plan (Ardipithecus Ramidus)
A lesson plan for grades
7-8 that introduces students to the discovery of genus
Ardipithecus, and to common terms used when discussing prehistory and
early humans.
Ancient History Lesson Plans and Resources
Bring
Ancient History to Life!
Five lesson plans from Education World.
The Ancient World
Five lesson plans from
Thirteen Ed Online.
Ancient
History Lesson Plans
Four lesson plans from Time Maps.
Ancient Civilizations Lessons
Lesson plans and more from Pinterest.
Membership is required to view all content, but it's free.
Mr. Donn's Ancient
History
Great source for lesson plans on many topics related to
ancient history.
Ancient Times
A K-5 lesson plan from Discovery Education.
Internet
Ancient History Sourcebook
Great source containing hundreds of local
files as well as links to source texts throughout the net.
Ancient Civilizations Theme
Page
Links to resources and lesson plans. Scroll down the page to
find the lessons.
Ancient Mesopotamia
Several lesson plans from The University of Chicago.
The Cuneiform Writing System in Ancient Mesopotamia: Emergence and Evolution
An elaborate lesson plan from EDSITEment.
Power in Ancient Mesopotamia
Am elementary/middle grade lesson plan from the metropolitan Art Museum.
Life in Babylonia: The Importance of Trade
A high-quality lesson plan from EDSITEment. See also
Hammurabi's Code: What Does It Tell Us About Old Babylonia?
Laws
and Government: Hammurabi's Code
A 7th-grade lesson plan from Learn NC.
Ancient Babylonia
History Lesson
For grades 5/6.
Ancient Canaan: The Exodus and Babylonia
A middle school lesson plan.
Ancient Persia
A teacher's guide from Kid's Discover.
Ancient Persian
Empire for Kids and Teachers
From Mr. Donn.
Classical Greece: Battle of Marathon 490 BCE
A lesson plan for grades 11-12.
Daily Life in
Ancient Greece
Learn about life in ancient Greece.
Reflections of Ancient Greece
A K-5 lesson plan from Discovery
Education.
Daily Life in
Ancient Rome
Find out what the ancient Romans did all day!
Ancient Rome for
Kids and Teachers
From the authors of the above site.
The
Roman Empire in the First Century
Eight lesson plans from PBS.
Ancient Rome
A lesson plan for grades 6-8 from Discovery Education.
See also
Rome's Influence for another middle-grade lesson plan.
Ancient
China for Kids
More from Mr. Donn.
Six Paths to China
Web-based activities for learning and teaching
about ancient China.
Egyptian
Symbols and Figures: Scroll Paintings
A K-2 lesson plan from Edsitement. See also
Egyptian Symbols and Figures: Hieroglyphs.
Egypt's
Pyramids: Monuments with a Message
Another elementary lesson plan
from Edsitement.
The
Hidden History of Egypt
A lesson plan fro grades 6-8 from Discovery Education. See also
Daily Life
in Ancient Egypt.
Neferchichi's Tomb
Lesson plans and information on ancient Egypt, including
Hieroglyphic Writing.
Guardian's
Egypt
Take a cyber tour, print a map, learn about the Sphinx, etc.
The Story of
India
Five lesson plans for AP high school students from PBS. The
lessons plans cover ancient to modern times. See also
Daily Life in Ancient India.
Aztec Mythology
A unit for grades 4-5.
Aztec Codex
A 7th-grade lesson plan in which students learn about and
demonstrate an understanding of Aztec culture by making a replica of an
Aztec codex.
A Classical Mayan News Report
A high school lesson plan in which
students learn about Mayan city-states and what archaeologists can tell us
about an ancient civilization. See also
Daily Life in the Maya Empire.
Discovering the Maya of Yesterday
An interdisciplinary unit for grades 5-8.
Collapse: Why Do
Civilizations Fall?
Interesting lesson plan on the fall of
ancient civilizations.
Middle Ages Lesson Plans and Resources
The Middle
Ages
Twelve activities from Education world.
Medieval
Eleven lesson
plans from the Stanford History Education Group's
Reading Like a Historian
curriculum.
Dark
Ages
One lesson plan from the above source.
Middle Ages for
Teachers
A long list of lesson plans and units from Mr. Donn's pages.
Middle Ages
A K-5 lesson plan from Discovery Education.
Not Everyone
Lived in Castles During the Middle Ages
A lesson plan for grades 3-5
from Edsitement.
Medieval Europe
A unit for the grade 4.
Mythical, Magical, Magical Middle Ages . . . Not!
A 4th-grade unit
from
Core Knowledge.
See also
Gargoyles, Black Death, and Scary Music,
Europe in the Middle Ages, and
Feudalism
for other 4th-grade units from this organization.
From Medieval
Times to Today
A lesson plan for grades K-8 from Discovery Education.
Medieval Life: Squires, Maidens and Peasants
An elaborate 7th-grade
unit from
Yale-New Haven Teachers
Institute.
Medieval
Plainchant
A 7th-grade lesson plan in which students learn about the
contributions of medieval composer Hildegard of Bingen and about the
characteristics of plainchant.
Marker Medieval Tessellations
A middle school lesson plan from the
Incredible Art Department.
Where
in the World is Camelot?
A high school lesson plan.
Feudalism
A
WebQuest.
The Great Schism in the Medieval Church
A high school lesson plan
from
Hub Pages.
See also
Letters from the Crusades.
The Path of
the Black Death
A high school lesson plan.
Be a Viking!
A 3rd-grade lesson plan.
Leif Ericsson (Leif "the Lucky") an Unsung Discoverer
One more 3rd-grade unit from Core
Knowledge.
The Vikings: Sea Raiders, Land Raiders
A lesson plan for grades 6-8.
See also
Viking Discoveries
for a high school lesson plan from this same source.
BBC-Vikings-Lesson Plans
"Six learner guides, 16 classroom videos."
Early and Medieval African Kingdoms
A 4th-grade unit.
Medieval China: How to Put Some "Tang" in Your Medieval Dynasties
A 4th-grade lesson plan from Core Knowledge.
The Role of Women in East Asia in the Middle Ages
A 7th-grade lesson plan from the USC US-China Institute. See many
their
other lesson plans.
Tradition, Religion, and Culture in Medieval Japan
An elaborate unit from the above source.
On the Road
with Marco Polo
An eight-lesson unit for grades 3-5.
Genghis Khan
A lesson plan for grades 6-8 from Scholastic.
Renaissance Lesson Plans and Resources
The
Scientific Revolution: Science & Society from the Renaissance to the Early
Enlightenment
Many lesson plans
for various grade levels from
the
History Teaching Institute at The Ohio
State University.
The Renaissance: Rebirth of Ideas
A 5th-grade unit.
The Renaissance:
A
WebQuest on the Time Period and Its Art
Four Armed Men from the Renaissance
A unit for grades 5-6.
Leonardo da Vinci: Creative Genius
A lesson plan for grades 6-8 from EDSITEment.
Leonardo da
Vinci Activity
A multidisciplinary lesson plan for grades 6-8.
Reformation Lesson Plans and Resources
The Ideas and Ideals of Man, From the Renaissance to the Reformation
An extensive unit from
The Yale-New Haven Teachers
Institute.
See also The Protestant Reformation
and The
Catholic Reformation.
The Reformation
A 5th-grade unit from
Core Knowledge.
See also
The Reformation: Revolt and Redirection for another 5th-grade unit.
Introduction to the Reformation
A 9th-grade lesson plan.
See also Martin Luther,
the Reformation.
Martin Luther
A
lesson plan from
the Stanford History Education Group's
Reading Like a Historian curriculum.
Simulation of the
Trial of Martin Luther
An AP history activity.
Age of
Exploration
Land Ho: Early Exploration and Settlement of the Americas
A 1st-grade unit in pdf
format. See also
Columbus and the Conquistadors.
Columbus Day or Indigenous People's Day?
A lesson plan from Channel One News.
1492: An
Ongoing Voyage
An on-line exhibit from the
Library of Congress. See also
Exploration and Explorers for more lesson plans from the Library of
Congress.
New World
Explorers
Lesson plans
and activities from Mr. Donn. Scroll down the page for teacher resources.
What Was Columbus Thinking?
A lesson plan from EDSITEment in which students read excerpts from
Columbus's letters and journals, as well as well as recent considerations of
his achievements to learn about
the motivations behind Columbus's
explorations, his reactions to what he found, and the consequences, intended
and unintended, of his endeavor. See also
Other Worlds: The Voyage of Columbus.
Explorers
A lesson plan for grades 3-5 focusing on Dutch, French, Spanish,
and English explorations on the east coast of North America during the
1500’s and 1600’s.
Australian
Explorers
Learn about the first Europeans to explore Australia.
Vikings in Vinland
A lesson plan for grades 6-12 from the
NY Times
Learning Network.
See also
Discovery Channels.
Leif Ericsson (Leif "the Lucky") an Unsung Discoverer
A 3rd-grade unit from Core
Knowledge.
Viking Discoveries
A high school lesson plan from Discovery
Education.
Who Really Discovered the Americas?
A 5th-grade lesson plan.
Evaluating
the Validity of Information - Did the Chinese Discover America in
1421?
A lesson plan for grades 6-8.