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Transition from BIG HISTORY to WHP-Origins- Has anyone made this switch?

Bryan Dibble
Bryan Dibble 9 months ago

Selah High School has offered BHP for freshman for five years, and now we are switching it up to World History Origins.  We think it might be a better fit for our freshmen in a trimester system.  We only have 11 or 12 weeks to give the students as much history as possible.  It's our "introduction to social studies" class, and we know kids in our district have very little social studies prior to 9th grade.  I'm not even going to start crying about that fact.  Has anyone out there made the transition from Big History to Origins?  Or anyone teach both?  What are the best crossover activities?  I see the comparisons on paper between both classes, but we don't have time to teach it all.  What are the "must-dos" for Origins?

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  • Chris Scaturo
    0 Chris Scaturo 5 months ago

    I was forced to switch 3 years ago.   Origins is a neat class but it lacks the oomph that BHP has.   It's not it's fault, it's just not the new shiny toy BHP was.    I focused on the same skills (multiple causality, claim testing, Goldilocks' Conditions, etc) just changed the narrative.

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    0 Chris Scaturo 5 months ago

    I was forced to switch 3 years ago.   Origins is a neat class but it lacks the oomph that BHP has.   It's not it's fault, it's just not the new shiny toy BHP was.    I focused on the same skills (multiple causality, claim testing, Goldilocks' Conditions, etc) just changed the narrative.

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