Unlike the Big Game, you do not need to wait until February to unlock this Big Game!! Unlock 13.8 billion years of history with Big History. Catch the Urbanization Game and the Silk Road simulation, and run with the lesson openers.

Love this post, Jim!

Here are my Big History favorites: 

World Travelers

Trade Game

Museum Project

Columbian Exchange Snap Judgment

And anything in the future including David Christian's article "The Next Threshold" as well as the Unknowns with David Christian podcast clips on the future that are in Lesson 7.3 and Lesson 7.4.

There are also some great Unknowns with David Christian podcast clips for agriculture and complex societies including

Mysteries of the Agricultural Revolution

Causes of Collapse

Mysteries of Oceania Migration

Can't wait to hear from other teachers on their favorite plays!

Bridgette OConnor These are such great activities!  Did you modify them in any way for your classroom?  I am a huge fanboy of Professor Christian and I absolutely love his podcast!!

Jim Jaeger it's been a few years since I taught Big History but my students loved the World Travelers activity (my kids did these in groups and then shared out, and it was always fun to discuss their guesses) and the Museum Project (I turned this into a multi-day activity and had students present their projects to the class). 

And I'm so pleased to hear that you like the podcast--we worked really hard on that!! We also incorporated clips from each episode into the course, some of which have guiding questions and others have accompanying activities. We have an upcoming event with David that will feature his thoughts on the future. If you haven't already, I encourage you to sign up for it on the Events page: https://www.oerproject.com/events 

I am already signed up!!  I cannot wait! :)

Bridgette OConnor I love the sound of the museum project.  I have had students create a "Little Big History" project as a year end activity.  We had some really neat projects including a hand-cranked elevator model from a student who had a brother in a wheelchair so elevators were super important to his family.

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The openers that BHP has embedded are awesome as well.  My students have enjoyed these and I have used them to drive home the skills using the course content. We just used Alphonse the Camel and his look at causation.  As one of my students quipped, "Well. that got dark in a hurry.."