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1st Timer of Big History Project Teaching Looking to Launch August 2025

Torin Warner
Torin Warner 6 months ago

Hello Educators!

This will be my first year teaching the Big History Project, and I’m planning to use it for my 6th grade Social Studies class. I'm reaching out to this amazing community to ask for a little help and guidance as I get started.

Here’s what I’m looking for:

  1. Does anyone have student-facing slide decks—especially for Lesson 1, Unit 1? I’d love to see a folder with a slide deck that includes learning objectives and clear instructions for student tasks.
  2. Is anyone willing to share supplemental materials such as grading rubrics, assessments, or other helpful resources?
  3. Would anyone be open to giving me a quick crash course on teaching this curriculum—maybe a short Zoom call (30–60 minutes)? I’d really appreciate any tips, strategies, or insight from those who’ve taught this before.

To summarize: I’m looking for slide decks, teaching materials, and any advice you're willing to share. Please feel free to reach out—I'd be so grateful for the support!

Thanks so much in advance! (also folks- this would be soo much easier in discord!) 

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  • Meaghan Mihalic
    0 Meaghan Mihalic 6 months ago in reply to Torin Warner

    Sure thing, Torin! Just to circle back on the personal periodized timeline, here is a link to a super basic template that I provide for students (I make it very boring in the hopes that they will get creative with color/font/images/background/etc.), and here is a link to the rubric I use, and here are the slides that I use to introduce the project, which include my example. Feel free to copy and modify for your own use. I know it's helpful to see how a fellow educator takes a concept from idea to description to realization!

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  • Torin Warner
    0 Torin Warner 6 months ago

    Hey Looking for a full pdf of the unit caputrer sheets/document's/student tasks. does that exist ? 

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  • Bryan Dibble
    0 Bryan Dibble 6 months ago in reply to Meaghan Mihalic

    I like the periodization aspect of your timeline activity, that's something we at Selah High don't do (our timeline rubric).  We do have students identify "threshold moments".  I always like layering a few extra skills on top!  Thanks for this example Meaghan Mihalic 

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  • Meaghan Mihalic
    0 Meaghan Mihalic 5 months ago in reply to Bryan Dibble

    Bryan Dibble I appreciate the rubric share. I'm always looking to streamline and improve mine; this is a good motivator to rework some things on mine that could be more clear. Thanks!

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  • Meaghan Mihalic
    0 Meaghan Mihalic 5 months ago in reply to Torin Warner

    Hey Torin Warner ; I'm not sure I fully understand what you are looking for with this question. Can you clarify? I'd be happy to help!

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  • Torin Warner
    0 Torin Warner 5 months ago in reply to Meaghan Mihalic

    OER project shared with me all the readings and activities for Big History; But they are all individual docx. files, so i had to print each individually for my own hard copies to start going over. I did figure it out though if anyone does want a monster pdf of all the readings for unit 1 for lexile level bellow 1080.

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