Where to begin teaching BHP?

Kerry Lynn Like Gwen Duralek said- what is your timeframe?  There is a wide range here in the forum.  Many get to teach the class all school year, others have semesters, and some, me for instance, teach BHP three times a year in trimesters.  Donnetta Elsasser teaches BHP a few days a week over I believe a semester.  So there is a wide range and many teachers who can match you up to a plan of action.  Here is a list of my topics and timeline on a trimester-

Week 1- Introductions, vocabulary activity for the course, course outline, building a personal timeline (understanding thresholds)

Week 2 - Claim testers, understanding claims, writing claims.  Big History initial assessment.

Week 3 - Origin Stories and the Big Bang Threshold 1

Week 4 - Threshold 2 and 3- Stars Light Up and Elements Form

Week 5 - Threshold four, Our Solar System and Earth

Week 6 - Life - Threshold 5

Week 7 - Threshold 6 collective learning and early humans

Week 8 - Threshold 7, Agriculture and Civilization

Week 9 - More Threshold 7, Cultures and World Religions

Week 10 - Little more Threshold 7, Exploration, Expansion and interconnectedness/ Globalization. 

Week 11/12 - Speed of information Threshold 8.

Week 12/13 - The future

Thanks for the great outline, Bryan Dibble .

It gives a great structure to guide pacing and duration of topics. Then people can fill in with which activities they want based on the frame.

And you are correct that I only see my students a couple of times per week. 

So many good options and adaptations of the curriculum. 

Thanks for the great outline, Bryan Dibble .

It gives a great structure to guide pacing and duration of topics. Then people can fill in with which activities they want based on the frame.

And you are correct that I only see my students a couple of times per week. 

So many good options and adaptations of the curriculum.