Climate + Imperialism, Decolonization, Globalization, Urbanization, and Empires

Like many, I make some really strong connections to climate change with the urbanization game that I use as an introduction to 1750-1900. 

How people interact with the environment is one of those themes that we layer each unit's specifics into.

I do try to make those CCOT connections (so, networks of exchange of 1450-1750, using the 2006 silver DBQ & Potosi to a more recent BBC video about the mining that's ongoing at Potosi) 

Another climate related topic might be how disease was spread along trade routes and waterways throughout the centuries...and how the warming of the climate is widening the reach of many tropical diseases, but also impacting the permafrost layer that's unleashing "zombie" viruses & bacteria. 

Thanks for sharing the links and your ideas for the course of the year.

That link to the Silver Trade DBQ, wow, I forgot that I had done that Annotated Rubric with Bill Strickland back in 2006 - what a blast from the past. 

I've adapted the Silver Trade DBQ for the new DBQ format ( but not yet the updated rubric).  Thought I would share here since you mentioned it!

I was also thinking the Little Ice Age? I don't think there is an OER lesson on it, but I thought about Bram Hubbell's lesson "What We Can Learn from a Pair of Skating Owls" from a few years ago, and John Green's video on his World History 2 series on the Little Ice Age.  Some ideas are definitely coalescing for me!  

Thanks for sharing the links and your ideas for the course of the year.

That link to the Silver Trade DBQ, wow, I forgot that I had done that Annotated Rubric with Bill Strickland back in 2006 - what a blast from the past. 

I've adapted the Silver Trade DBQ for the new DBQ format ( but not yet the updated rubric).  Thought I would share here since you mentioned it!

I was also thinking the Little Ice Age? I don't think there is an OER lesson on it, but I thought about Bram Hubbell's lesson "What We Can Learn from a Pair of Skating Owls" from a few years ago, and John Green's video on his World History 2 series on the Little Ice Age.  Some ideas are definitely coalescing for me!