The OER Project (Open Educational Resources) is a new online website with resources for world history teachers organized by topics.
Click on a specific topic and another menu opens showing you the activities and readings for the topic.
Many of the readings, and even some of the videos, are terrific and written by AP World teachers and professors. In Era 6, for example, Professor Trevor Getz (San Francisco State University) looks at colonialism through a Ghanaian lense in an eleven-minute clip. The video explores the idea that colonial control was often contested. Students can also read an essay by Professor Getz about industrial imperialism. It includes a reading worksheet and discussion questions.
In era 5 which includes the Columbian Exchange, students can read an essay by AP world teacher, Sharon Cohen, about the sugar and plantation complex. The topic also includes a sourcing activity with sources form the Spanish conquest of the Aztec and Incas.
The website is part of the Big History Project but more specifically geared to high school world history teachers. Many of the activities, readings, and videos are terrific and absolutely worth including in lessons.
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