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GOAL 2
World History & Geography
META SOCIAL STUDIES
Students will create a flip book, slideshow, game, puzzle or otherwise creative way to teach others the
essential Social Studies terms (vocabulary), research the life of a famous person from each era and
create a one act play depicting a turning point in ONE of those person’s lives, create a timeline of the
technological advances during the different eras, and use the META labs to create a project or product
that highlights and teaches the key points of ONE of the eras OR several of the eras.
Era 4 Expanding Zones of Exchange and Encounter, 300-1000 CE
Era 5 Intensified Hemispheric Interactions 1000-1500 CE
Era 6 The Emergence of the First Global Age, 1450-1770
Era 7 An Age of Revolutions, 1750-1914
Era 8 A Half-Century of Crisis and Achievement, 1900-1945
KEY CONCEPTS:
• Students will analyze turning points in the world.
• Students will investigate questions through both global and interregional
lenses, and pose their own questions about contemporary global issues,
focusing on themes like population, resources, global interactions, and
conflict, cooperation and security.
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