AP European History
Full Curriculum Bundle
The curriculum is a living bundle that includes Google Drive access with the download, including any other updates I may add throughout the year.
This complete class curriculum is intended to best-prepare you and your students for passing the AP Test with the exact same model and approach I use. It has helped my students and I consistently achieve 90%+ passing rates, and I hope it can help some of you–especially those new to teaching AP!
Full curriculum for A.P. European History includes ALL of the following:
OVERVIEW (see INDIVIDUAL MATERIALS section for more detail)
- Works with any textbook
- Access to all curriculum updates for life
- Access to the Classroom Economy Game!
- All relevant pre-1200 CE topics (i.e., a Unit 0 of sorts)
- Paced curriculum folder for both regular and block schedules
- The Cards Against History: AP Euro Game
- 20 Classroom Gallery Walk Activities
- 50 Crash Course World History Question Sheets
- 9 ESCAPE ROOM Classroom Activities
- 5 SCAVANGER HUNT Activities
- 5 HISTORICAL RIDDLE RACE Games
- 4 Survival and Classroom Matching Games
- 90+ PRIMARY SOURCE document analysis & skill-building activities! (at LEAST one per College Board standard)
- 20 SECONDARY SOURCES used in excerpt analysis & skill-building activities!
- 2 film projects, with full instruction sets, materials, and rubrics
- 2 Newspaper Article Projects
- 3 Classroom Debates, with full instruction sets, materials, and rubrics
- 16 individual College Board-modeled written questions (DBQs/LEQs/SAQs)
- 20+ research projects, featuring TikTok, Instagram, Twitter, and conventional methods
- A Unit Guide Assignment for all 9 Units of AP Euro
- 62 Personally-crafted PowerPoint/Google Slide Presentations
- Lecture notes/background information for all topics
- An optional END OF YEAR Project for the Post-AP Test weeks
- Innovative in-class currency system to engage and motivate students!
- Editable personally-crafted PowerPoints!
- Explanations of ALL lecture information & learning objectives for teachers
- Complete list and explanation of every topic for Periods 1-4
- Detailed video tutorials on how to use the bundle
- Student SAQ and LEQ models
- OPTIONAL student incentive super tool
Assessments
- Editable quizzes + keys
- 4 stimulus-based multiple-choice tests (one for each Period) + keys
- 8 SAQs (2 knowledge-based, 3 stimulus-based, 3 historiography) + keys
- 4 LEQs (one for each historical skill & Period + one bonus!) + keys
- 4 DBQs (one for each Period) + keys
- Simplified LEQ and DBQ rubrics
Review
- Thematic Review Timelines (9 different themes for all 4 periods)
- Personalized Review Games
- Complete College Board learning objectives and terms assignment
- PDF on how I teach writing, content, grade, structure the class, and review
INDIVIDUAL MATERIALS
Materials Units 1-2 (Period 1)
- 12 Crash Course History Question Sheets
- Gallery Walk: Feudalism in Europe
- Instagram Group Project: The Renaissance
- Scavenger Hunt: Italian and Northern Renaissance
- Gallery Walk: The Scientific Revolution
- Feudal Kingdom Survival Game
- Gallery Walk: The Protestant Reformation
- Riddle Race Game: The Protestant Reformation
- Twitter Group Project: Religious Conflicts
- Gallery Walk: State Control of Religion
- Scavenger Hunt: Centralized Monarchies
- TikTok Group Project: Centralization and Resistance
- Gallery Walk: Impact of Exploration
- Classroom Debate: Age of Exploration
- Escape Room 1: Colonialism and Commerce
- MCQ Practice Test
- Unit Guide Assignment: Units 1-2
- 21 Primary Sources + Question Sheets and key
- 2 Secondary Sources + Question Sheets and key
- 14 PowerPoint Presentations
- 4 Instruction Guides with Lecture Notes for Period 1
- 1 Topic Overview PDF
- 3 quizzes + keys
- 3 short-answer questions + keys
- 1 MCQ Stimulus-Based Test + key
- 1 LEQ + key
- 1 DBQ + key
Materials Units 3-5 (Period 2)
- 11 Crash Course History Question Sheets
- Gallery Walk: Absolutist Monarchs
- Twitter Group Project: Absolutism
- Riddle Race Game: Absolutism and Enlightened Absolutists
- Gallery Walk: The Enlightenment
- Escape Room 2: The Enlightenment
- TikTok Group Project: State Rivalries
- Gallery Walk: The French Revolution
- Instagram Group Project: Phases of the French Revolution
- Escape Room 3: Early 19th-Century Culture
- Gallery Walk: Capitalism and Agriculture
- Group Research Project: Free Markets and 19th-Century Agriculture
- Riddle Race Game: Adam Smith and the British Agricultural Revolution
- Unit Guide Assignment: Units 3-5
- 25 Primary Sources + Question Sheets and key
- 2 Secondary Sources + Question Sheets and key
- 15 PowerPoint Presentations
- 4 Instruction Guides with Lecture Notes for Period 2
- 1 Topic Overview PDF
- 3 quizzes + keys
- 3 short-answer questions + keys
- 1 MCQ Stimulus-Based Test + key
- 1 LEQ + key
- 1 DBQ + key
Materials Units 6-7 (Period 3)
- 8 Crash Course History Question Sheets
- Gallery Walk: Industrialization
- Classroom Debate: Effects of Industrialization
- Escape Room 4: The Industrial Revolution
- Gallery Walk: National Revolutions
- Newspaper Project: Revolutions of 1848
- New Nation Survival Game
- Instagram Group Project: Unifications of Italy and Germany
- Scavenger Hunt: Nationalism and Revolution
- Gallery Walk: Alternatives to Capitalism
- Riddle Race Game: 19th-Century Science and Philosophy
- TikTok Group Project: New Conservatives
- Gallery Walk: New Imperialism
- Group Research Project: 19th-Century Social Critics
- Scavenger Hunt: New Imperialism
- Unit Guide Assignment: Units 6-7
- 21 Primary Sources + Question Sheets and key
- 4 Secondary Sources + Question Sheets and key
- 15 PowerPoint Presentations
- 4 Instruction Guides with Lecture Notes for Period 3
- 1 Topic Overview PDF
- 3 quizzes + keys
- 3 short-answer questions + keys
- 1 MCQ Stimulus-Based Test + key
- 1 LEQ + key
- 1 DBQ + key
Materials Units 8-9 (Period 4)
- 19 Crash Course History Question Sheets
- Gallery Walk: Causes of World War I
- Escape Room 5: World War I
- Instagram Group Project: Russian Revolution
- Group Film Project: WWI Propaganda
- Gallery Walk: Causes of the Great Depression
- Newspaper Project: Interwar Crises
- Twitter Group Project: Totalitarians
- Gallery Walk: Causes of World War II
- Escape Room 6: World War II
- Scavenger Hunt: Major Events of World War II
- Gallery Walk: Impact of World War II
- Gallery Walk: Preliminary Events of the Cold War
- TikTok Group Project: The Cold War
- Escape Room 7: The Cold War
- Gallery Walk: The Vietnam War
- Escape Room 8: The Vietnam War
- Gallery Walk: Stagflation
- Group Film Project: Counterculture Protest Film
- Instagram Group Project: End of the Cold War
- Escape Room 9: End of the Cold War
- Gallery Walk: Assessing Globalization
- Group Research Project: Progress, Violence, and Separatism
- Classroom Debate: Globalization
- Riddle Race Game: Globalization Process
- Unit Guide Assignment: Units 8-9
- 28 Primary Sources + Question Sheets and key
- 12 Secondary Sources + Question Sheets and key
- 18 PowerPoint Presentations
- 5 Instruction Guides with Lecture Notes for Period 4
- 1 Topic Overview PDF
- 3 quizzes + keys
- 3 short-answer questions + keys
- 1 MCQ Stimulus-Based Test + key
- 1 LEQ + key
- 1 DBQ + key