World History for Us All

An interesting and ambitious website that is geared towards schools but which may be a useful resource to homeschools. The History of the World in Seven Minutes presents and interesting overview of world history from an evolutionary perspective.From the site:

World History for Us All is a powerful, innovative model curriculum for teaching world history in middle and high schools. This site:

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• offers a treasury of teaching units, lesson plans, and resources.
• presents the human past as a single story rather than unconnected stories of many civilizations.
• helps teachers meet state and national standards.
• enables teachers to survey world history without excluding major peoples, regions, or time periods.
• helps students understand the past by connecting specific subject matter to larger historical patterns.
• draws on up-to-date historical research.
• may be readily adapted to a variety of world history programs.

The first two segments of the curriculum seem to be complete. The third is a work in progress. The activities and wording are rather schoolish, but the ideas are interesting. Certainly more suited to a secular or evolutionary approach to history; however, the idea of looking at events around the world in concert with one another is something that can be applied to any perspective. [We have used both secular and religious history materials in our home school which seems to me to provide a greater depth of understanding than either alone.]