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Key ideas: Primary and secondary sources, how we learn about the past, the 5 highways.
Inside you'll find: Why History? notes, How Do You Know? Lab, Butter Battle Book questions, One day Geography worksheet, World Map Hunt game.
Key ideas: Republic vs Empire, the beginnings of Christianity, Constantine, Provinces, Barbarians, Slavery.
Inside you'll find: Roman Empire Notes, Roman Empire Preview Video, The Most Metal Opera Ever, Chapter Walkthrough and three games (including the spectacular Whack-An-Emperor. Check it out!
7.6 Medieval Europe (Dark Ages)
Key Ideas: The Church, Feudalism, Europe's Geography Zones, Peasant Life
Inside you'll find: Dark Ages Notes, Dark Ages Preview Video, 3 Dark Ages games, Chapter Walkthrough and a Quest for Knowledge assignment.
7.6 Medieval Europe (Late Middle Ages)
Key Ideas: Crusades, Magna Carta, Struggles between Kings and Popes, Castles, Medieval Weapons, Job Specialization, the Black Plague.
Inside you'll find: Late Middle Ages Notes, Kingdom of Heaven movie trailer, a crossword puzzle, a notes review fill in the blank and, so far, one really awesome game.
7.8 Renaissance
Key Ideas: Humanism, Perspective, Da Vinci, Shakespeare, The Medicis, Michelangelo, Machiavelli
Inside you'll find: Renaissance Notes, Medieval Vs. Renaissance Art Video, Renaissance Chapter Walk, CSI: Florence Lab, Da Vinci's Notebook Lab, History Jumper: The Renaissance Game, Sistine Chapel Slide Puzzle.
7.9 The Protestant Reformation
Key Ideas: Martin Luther, The Catholic Church, Christianity, Indulgences, Simony, Pope Leo X, Counter-Reformation, Jesuits
Inside you'll find: Reformation Notes, Reformation Chapter Walk, Reformation Stations Lab, History Jumper: Reformation Game, Reformation Rap Video (best video EVER).
7.10 The Scientific Revolution
Key Ideas: The Scientific Method, Copernicus, Galileo, Telescope, Newton, Gravity, Heliocentrism, Truth
Inside you'll find: Notes in PowerPoint and video format, Scientific Revolution Chapter Walk, Galileo: To Tell the Truth
7.11 The Age of Exploration
Key Ideas: Columbus, Magellan, De Gama, Columbian Exchange, Circumnavigate
Inside you'll find: Notes in PowerPoint and video format, AOE Chapter Walk,
7.7 Latin America
Key Ideas: Maya, Aztec, Inca, Pok-a-Tok, Cortes, Pizarro, Civil War, Terrace Farming, Chinampas
Inside you'll find: Notes in Powerpoint, PDF and video format, Maya Chapter Walk, Aztec/Inca Chapter Walk, Mayan Collapse Lab
7.3 China
Key Ideas: Gun Powder, Meritocracy, Warring States, Compass, Great Wall, Q'in Dynasty, Buddhism, Confucianism, Scholar-officials
Inside you'll find: Notes in video and PDF format, China Chapter Walk, China Notes Review
7.5 Japan
I love this unit! Volcanoes, sumos, samurais, ninjas - you can't ask for much more than that. Includes a Haiku lab and a few mini-labs sprinkled throughout the notes. There is also a Culture Shock lab that has students acting out Sumo rituals and making origami. This is a three week unit that I bundle with China. I have found that teaching the units seperately causes my students to lump everything about them together.
7.2 Arabia
This unit explores Arabia. There are no posted labs at this point as I've yet to come up with any worth sharing. The notes contain a few mini-labs such as designing a plan to get water through the desert.
7.4 Africa
Typically I combine this unit with 7.2 as both mention the influence Arabia had in Africa. The focus is on Ghana and then Mali (where the Arabic influence was strong.) Includes a lab on African oral history and folktales. Combined with 7.2 this unit takes 4-5 weeks.
Ok, so this isn't really in the standards... but they do mention the beginnings of America and pirates were in the right time and place! Either way, in this final unit of the year we will look into the myths behind pirates and find out what they were really all about. After we're done you'll find it very odd that we encourage kids to dress up like them for fun!