History Hub: This Week in History
In this ongoing class, students will look back in time at events, inventions, people, and anything else that was significant to this week in history.
Melanie Wiancko
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1 live meeting
45 mins in-class hours per weekClass Experience
US Grade 4 - 7
** New to Outschool? Use code MelanieWia2020 to save $20! ** Welcome to Mel's History Hub's 'This Week in History'! Do you love juicy stories filled with drama, suspense, and mystery? If so, this is the class for you! Each week, we will look at events, people, inventions, and moments that defined history that occurred in that week. Students of all knowledge levels are welcome as I will provide background information on each week's topics. We explore interesting, unique, and bizarre things from history. This class is intended to be educational, fun, and engaging for students. As a history teacher, I love juicy, unique stories from history, so I will try to include things each week that will interest different historical learners! History is not about remembering boring facts associated with a simple date, it is diving deeper and understanding these moments and why they changed history. In each class, students will be introduced to different historical figures, events, inventions, and moments that defined history or are just really interesting. Students will be guided through an interactive slideshow presentation where they will get to answer and ask questions as we move through a variety of topics. At the end of our class each week, students will get to participate in a fun and interactive game of Kahoot to test their knowledge of what they learned. Students are welcome to join at any point in the course.
Learning Goals
Students will learn and be able to share exciting details of history that they learned from each week.
Students will learn about particular people, events, inventions, and moments that defined history and understand their significance and impact.
Other Details
Parental Guidance
We will be discussing various topics of history. The material presented with be monitored for age-appropriate but we will occasionally be discussing violent conflicts that have occurred in history. There will be no graphic images, videos, or specific information shared with the students.
This class will also use Kahoot. It is an online trivia game. Students will be sent a link through Zoom chat during class time. They will click on the link to take them directly to the game where they will enter their first name or nickname. No apps need to be downloaded and no personal information will be shared.
External Resources
In addition to the Outschool classroom, this class uses:
Sources
* A variety of resources will be used each week depending on the topic. Only sources deemed trustworthy and credible will be used.
- 'The Twentieth Century and Beyond: A Global History' - Goff, Moss, Terry, Upshur, Schroeder
- Imperial War Museums https://www.iwm.org.uk/
- Britannica.com
- Smithsonianmag. com
- Canadianencyclopedia.ca
- worldhistory.org
- historyhit.com
- historynet.com
- facinghistory.org
Joined May, 2020
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Teacher expertise and credentials
Non-US Teaching Certificate in Secondary Education
2 Degrees
Bachelor's Degree in History from Brock University
Bachelor's Degree in Education from Nipissing University
I have an undergraduate degree in History and I am a certified teacher with qualifications to teach intermediate and senior divisions of History. All of the class content will be researched information that is from factual reliable sources accompanied by my extensive knowledge on these subjects. Reviews
Live Group Class
$15
weekly1x per week
45 min
Completed by 52 learners
Live video meetings
Ages: 11-15
4-14 learners per class
