AP® World History First Day of School Activities and Course Overview
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This bundle currently contains every AP® World History resource in my store. More DBQ skills resources are in the works and will be added in late 2024. Currently you will find lectures that follow the AP® World History CED, guided notes for students, detailed speaker notes for every slide, vocabularPrice $235.00Original Price $394.75Save $159.75
This beginning of the year bundle for AP® World History covers your first two weeks of class. Introduce the course, refresh students on geography skills, introduce the six themes of AP World, approach Unit 0 Foundations with purpose, and work on FRQ skills. Details of what is included:First Day of SPrice $21.00Original Price $28.50Save $7.50
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Have your very first day of teaching AP® World History: Modern completely covered with these first day of school activities. Included you will find:
- 12 Slides (PowerPoint and Google Slides™ versions available) that contain a Two Truths and a Lie: World History Edition Game and a course overview
- 6 background images to create additional slides with info unique to your class
- Student Inventory sheet
- Ice Breaker BINGO cards
- APWH Course Overview student handout (units, themes, AP® exam basics)
- "Organizing World History" whole-class activity
- Continents and Oceans map quiz and answer key
- 15 introductory world history vocab words with definitions
- Vocab quiz and answer key
- Geologic Timeline Activity with Questions and Answer Key
- CED Scavenger Hunt Questions and Answer Key
- Links to Google copies of the Vocab Quiz and PowerPoint
This lesson was designed with a 90-minute block in mind. If you have shorter class periods, you will find that all of this material will not fit into one day, especially if you add in your own syllabus/class procedures review. There is enough material to cover more than one 90-minute block class.
The "Organizing World History" activity gives you 35 major world events. Cut out the slips, shuffle them, and hand them to your students. Have the class attempt to arrange themselves in order from the earliest events to the most recent! This is a challenging activity that gets students up and talking without having to do the same ice breaker games they are likely doing in other classes on the first day of school.
The "Two Truths and a Lie: History Edition" game is a fun, low-key way to end your very first class. Instead of having students come with the truths and lies about themselves, you have six slides that have strange history facts mixed with a lie. Have you class guess which one isn't true!
The Geologic Timeline is a great way to have students take a look at the "bigger picture" of history before diving into the course content.
The Course and Exam Description (CED) scavenger hunt is a great pairs activity that helps students familiarize themselves with the course. The CED is an invaluable tool for students, and many students don't even know it exists!
The slides are not editable, but I have included some blank slides that match the style of the slides. Use these as background images and add your text over them to make your first day of class presentation complete with your own procedures, grading policy, expectations, etc.
Follow this lesson with an introduction to the themes of AP® World: SPICE-T Lesson, Posters, and Activities
Unit 1 The Global Tapestry Lectures and Guided Notes
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