This volume offers teachers a different method of teaching world history. It focuses on active classroom activities, methods for students to grapple with humanity's issues, and innovative ways to show students the relevance of the past to the modern world. The book incorporates various disciplines including art, music, and writing in an attempt to create a fun and active classroom. Volume I covers prehistory to the Renaissance.

This volume offers teachers a different method of teaching world history. It focuses on active classroom activities, methods for students to grapple with humanity's issues, and innovative ways to show students the relevance of the past to the modern world. The book incorporates various disciplines including art, music, and writing in an attempt to create a fun and active classroom. Volume II covers three major units: The Enlightenment; the 19th century; and the 20th century.

Teaching history should not be reciting an endless list of dead men, entombed between the covers of a textbook. Instead, Breaking Away from the Textbook offers a fascinating journey through world history. Not a comprehensive, theory-heavy guide, thi

Not a comprehensive, theory-heavy guide, this book focuses on active classroom activities, methods for students to grapple with humanity's issues, and innovative ways to show students the relevance of the past to the world today.

Not a comprehensive, theory-heavy guide, this book focuses on active classroom activities, methods for students to grapple with humanity's issues, and innovative ways to show students the relevance of the past to the world today.