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This course from the OER Project provides complete lessons, videos, and other resources on the rise of agriculture and early societies, expansion and interconnection among civilizations, economic changes, and so much more!

The novel Crispin, by Avi, is one of the best to demonstrate daily life of different social classes and the influence of the Catholic Church during the Middle Ages.

In this lesson on Indian culture, students will learn about Buddhism and Hinduism and their spread to other countries though trade.

This is the plan for a printing press simulation. This simulation requires a customizable stamp. Students will need lots of small pieces of paper. This is a race and the teach also participates: Have each student write positive affirmations to each of the other 30 kids in the class and write their name on each piece of paper because they are writing the same thing 30 times this should take a while. Teacher enters the competition a few minutes into the simulation with the customized stamp and then stamps the same message to each of the 30 students. The stamp is much faster than writing and shows why the printing press was such an marvelous invention.

In this lesson, students will investigate and identify Renaissance 'movers and shakers' and their contributions. They will conduct research, create multimedia presentations, and design class activities centered around an important Renaissance artist, thinker, and/or scientist. Research resources and student handouts are included in the lesson plan.The lesson is intended to take about 5 class periods of 45 minutes each.The lesson is based on a lesson originally created by Diana Payne and Dirk Sprunt. 

This course from the OER Project provides complete lessons, videos, and other resources on much of world history, including the rise of cities, societies, and empires, regional webs, the first global age, industrialization and imperialism in the nineteenth century, World Wars I and II, the Cold War, and globalization.

In this lesson, students will work with a partner to analyze a famous speech from one of Shakespeare’s plays.  Each group will use iMovie to create a slide deck to present to the class.