*This class is an ongoing class where you can jump in at any time or take a week off here and there as needed*
 This course will cover a full year of World History and is a great starting point for Upper Elementary and Middle School Age Students before diving deeper into our World History Origins Class

This class goes over the big questions of the universe, the planet, life, and humanity.  How will our understanding of the past help to understand the present and how will it inform the future? 
Our History is not just from the invention of writing, agriculture, cities. Our history begins and includes all the disciplines and is important for our students to really grasp the history of this planet before an even deeper dive into a study of humanity like our course for High School age students. This course is a great starting point to grasp the key thresholds of further complexity of our planet. We look forward to seeing your student in this incredible, multi discipline and interactive course. 

We will be covering 10 units while covering one unit per month roughly depending on student grasp and understanding

In addition to the OER curriculum we will be including and using multiple sources to get alternative views and perspectives of history.  We will be using primary and secondary sources to make sure students can see events from a bird's eye view and be able to critically think about and examine these events. 

August 2022- Unit 1: What is Big History
Week of Aug 23rd =
1.0 Welcome to Big History
1.1 Scales
Week of Sept. 1st =
1.2 Origin Stories
Week of Sept.8th =
1.3 Claim Testing
Week of Sept. 15th =
1.4 Yardsticks and Clocks

 Unit 2: The Big Bang
Week of Sept. 22 =
2.0- The Big Bang
Week of Sept. 29th =
2.1- How did our understanding of the universe change
Week of Oct. 6th =
2.2- What are the Disciplines
Week of Oct. 13th = 
2.3- The Expanding Universe

Unit 3: Stars & Elements
Week of Oct. 20th =
3.0 How Were Stars Formed?
Week of Oct. 27th =
3.1 Creation of Complex Elements
Week of Nov 3rd = 
3.2 Ways of Knowing – Stars and Elements
Week of Nov. 10th =
3.3 Sorting Stars
Week of Nov. 17th =
3.4 How Old Is the Sun?

Dec. 2022- Unit 4: Our Solar System & Earth
4.0 Earth & the Formation of Our Solar System
4.1 What Was Young Earth Like?
4.2 Why Is Plate Tectonics Important?
4.3 Ways of Knowing: Our Solar System and Earth
4.4 True Nature of Our Solar System
4.5 Exoplanets

Jan 2023 Unit 5: Life
5.0 What Is Life?
5.1 How Did Life Begin and Change?
5.2 How Do Earth and Life Interact?
5.3 Ways of Knowing: Life
5.4 Impacts!


Feb 2023 Unit 6: Early Humans
6.0 How Our Ancestors Evolved
6.1 Ways of Knowing: Early Humans
6.2 Collective Learning
6.3 How Did the First Humans Live?

March 2023- Unit 7: Agriculture & Civilization
7.0 The Rise of Agriculture
7.1 The First Cities and States Appear
7.2 Ways of Knowing: Agriculture and Civilization
7.3 What Should We Eat?



April 2023 Unit 9: Acceleration
9.0 Transitions, Thresholds and Turning Points in Human History
9.1 Acceleration
9.2 The Anthropocene
9.3 Changing Economies
9.4 How Was the Modern World Created? Industrialism
9.5 How Was the Modern World Created? Modern States and Identities
9.6 Crisis and Conflict on the Global Stage
9.7 Acceleration - Demographic, Political, and Technological
9.8 To Infinity and Beyond!
9.9 Energizing the Future

May 2023 Unit 10: The Future
10.0 Looking Back
10.1 The Biosphere
10.2 Looking Forward
10.3 Are We Alone?