AP World History: Modern -
Full Curriculum Bundle
My AP World Full Year curriculum is a living bundle that includes Google Drive access with the download, and any other updates I may add in the future!
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 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. World History: Modern includes ALL of the following:
OVERVIEW (see INDIVIDUAL UNITS 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 World Game
- 20 Classroom Gallery Walk Activities
- 26 Crash Course World History Question Sheets
- 8 ESCAPE ROOM Classroom Activities
- 5 SCAVANGER HUNT Activities
- 5 HISTORICAL RIDDLE RACE Games
- 6 Survival and Classroom Matching Games
- 76 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
- 2 Traveler Epilogue Assignments
- 5 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 World
- 60 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 EDITABLE 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 (22 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 UNITS
Period 1 Materials (1200 CE to 1450 CE)
- 5 Crash Course World History Question Sheets
- Gallery Walk: Islam and the Caliphates
- Riddle Race Game: The Caliphates Through 1258
- Research Project: Sunni and Shia Islam
- Epilogue Activity: Ibn Battuta
- Classroom Debate: Post-Classical Chinese Dynasties
- Gallery Walk: The Mongolian Empire
- Riddle Race Game: Post-Classical China and the Mongolian Empire
- Gallery Walk: Feudalism in Europe and Japan
- Instagram History Project: Feudalism in Japan
- Feudal Kingdom Survival Game
- Escape Room Activity: The Inca and Aztec
- TikTok History Project: Ottoman Empire and Delhi Sultanate
- Gallery Walk: Islam in Sub-Saharan Africa
- Cold Case Activity: Sub-Saharan African Kingdoms
- Twitter History Project: Southeast Asian Kingdoms
- Scavenger Hunt Game: Medieval Travelers and Trade
- Unit Guide Assignment (College Board Key Concepts) for Units 1-2
- 16 Primary Source Analysis Options / Substitute Teacher Assignments
- 13 Personally-Crafted PowerPoint/Google Slide Presentations
- 4 Instruction Guides with Lecture Notes for Period 1
- 1 Topic Overview PDF
- 3 checkpoint quizzes
- 2 SAQs (knowledge-based and stimulus-based)
- 1 LEQ (comparison)
- 1 DBQ
- 1 stimulus-based MCQ Unit Test (20 questions)
Period 2 Materials (1450 CE to 1750 CE)
- 5 Crash Course World History Question Sheets
- Gallery Walk: The Age of Discovery
- History Cold Case Activity: European Exploration
- Classroom Debate: Impact of the the Columbian Exchange
- Escape Room Activity: Colonialism
- Gallery Walk: Muslim Gunpowder Empires
- Scavenger Hunt Game: Sultanates After 1200 CE
- Classroom Matching Game: Early-Modern Muslim States
- Riddle Race Game: The Protestant Reformation
- Twitter History Project: Early-Modern State and Religious Rivalries
- Gallery Walk: Early-Modern China and Japan
- Research Project: The Ming and Qing Dynasties and Tokugawa Japan
- Epilogue Activity: Zheng He
- Cold Case Activity: Sub-Saharan African Kingdoms
- Research Project: The Scientific Revolution
- Unit Guide Assignment (College Board Key Concepts) for Units 3-4
- 14 Primary Source Analysis Options / Substitute Teacher Assignments
- 2 Secondary Sources + comparison and analysis assignment
- 12 Personally-Crafted PowerPoint/Google Slide Presentations
- 4 Instruction Guides with Lecture Notes for Period 2
- 1 Topic Overview PDF
- 3 checkpoint quizzes
- 2 SAQs (knowledge-based and stimulus-based)
- 1 LEQ (continuity and change)
- 1 DBQ
- 1 stimulus-based MCQ Unit Test (20 questions)
Period 3 Materials (1750 CE to 1900 CE)
- 7 Crash Course World History Question Sheets
- Gallery Walk: The European Enlightenment
- Escape Room Activity: The Enlightenment
- Gallery Walk: National Revolutions and Independence Movements
- Instagram History Project: Phases of the French Revolution
- Scavenger Hunt Game: Haitian Revolution and Latin American Independence Movements
- New Nation Survival Game
- Gallery Walk: The Industrial Revolution
- Escape Room Activity: The Industrial Revolution
- Classroom Debate: Impact of the Industrial Revolution
- Gallery Walk: New Imperialism
- TikTok History Project: New Imperialism
- Twitter History Project: Single-Export Economies
- Riddle Race Game: 19th-Century Social and Political Ideas
- Instagram History Project: Resistance to Imperialism
- Research Project: Rebellion, Resistance, and Nationalist Movements
- Unit Guide Assignment (College Board Key Concepts) for Units 5-6
- 20 Primary Source Analysis Options / Substitute Teacher Assignments
- 6 Secondary Sources + 3 comparison and analysis assignments
- 15 Personally-Crafted PowerPoint/Google Slide Presentations
- 5 Instruction Guides with Lecture Notes for Period 3
- 1 Topic Overview PDF
- 4 checkpoint quizzes
- 3 SAQs (knowledge-based, stimulus-based, and historiography)
- 1 LEQ (causation)
- 1 DBQ
- 1 stimulus-based MCQ Unit Test (20 questions)
Period 4 Materials (1900 CE to PRESENT)
- 7 Crash Course World History Question Sheets
- Gallery Walk: Causes of World War I
- Group Film Project: Propaganda in World War I
- Escape Room: World War I
- Gallery Walk: The Great Depression
- Newspaper Article Project: The Global Depression
- Twitter History Project: Global Depression State Policies
- Research Project: Rise of Communism and Fascism
- Gallery Walk: Causes of World War II
- Research Project: Events of World War II
- Escape Room: Causes and Events of World War II
- Scavenger Hunt Game: Events of World War II
- Gallery Walk: Impact of World War II
- Classroom Debate: Decision to Drop the Atomic Bomb
- Gallery Walk: Start of the Cold War
- Escape Room Activity: The Cold War
- TikTok History Project: The Cold War
- Gallery Walk: Events of the Vietnam War
- Escape Room Activity: The Vietnam War
- Riddle Race Game: Decolonization and Counterculture of the 1960s
- Group Film Project: Counterculture of the 1960s
- Instagram History Project: Spread of Socialist Policies in Africa and Asia
- Gallery Walk: Crises of the 1970s
- TikTok History Project: Post-War Border Issues
- Newspaper Article Project: Post-War Border Issues and Non-Alignment
- Group Research Project: The Arab-Israeli Conflict
- Scavenger Hunt Game: The Arab-Israeli Conflict
- Gallery Walk: Events that Led to the End of the Cold War
- Instagram History Project: End of the Cold War
- Escape Room Activity: End of the Cold War
- Research Project: 20th-Century Genocide and Violence
- Gallery Walk: Pros and Cons of Globalization
- Digital Age Survival Game
- Classroom Debate: The Impact of Globalization
- Unit Guide Assignment (College Board Key Concepts) for Units 7-9
- 28 Primary Source Analysis Options / Substitute Teacher Assignments
- 12 Secondary Sources + 6 comparison and analysis assignments
- 16 Personally-Crafted PowerPoint/Google Slide Presentations
- 5 Instruction Guides with Lecture Notes for Period 4
- 1 Topic Overview PDF
- 4 checkpoint quizzes
- 3 SAQs (stimulus-based, and 2 historiography)
- 1 LEQ (comparison)
- 1 DBQ
- 1 stimulus-based MCQ Unit Test (20 questions)