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
  • 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)