Educators
Bring a world of characters
into your classroom.
Use History Adventures as a catalyst for students’ engagement and enjoyment of the past. Begin with a character, investigate the sources, and explore the choices that made history.
Available now
History Adventures
Educator Guide
Six pages of teaching approaches, character chapters and printable investigation worksheets, adapted from our Edison School of Innovation and America’s City teacher guides.
Curriculum connections
History, choices and evidence.
Empires & Interconnections: 1450-1750
Explore AP World History: Modern Units 3 and 4, Land-Based Empires and Transoceanic Interconnections, through six character perspectives.
Revolutions & Industrialization: 1750-1900
Connect Units 5 and 6, Revolutions and Consequences of Industrialization, with the stories of Agent 355, Jiemba, Fei Hong, Khari and Thomas Brown.
View the current AP World History: Modern framework
Use the products alongside your course materials, historical sources and classroom discussion.
From our teacher guides
Teaching approaches you can use.
Where in the world?
Locate the characters on a map and timeline. Identify how their stories connect through trade, ideas, empire or industrial change, then explain what makes their experiences different.
Primary-source investigation
Follow one character, then analyze a related historical source. Ask who created it, for whom and why, and what it can and cannot establish about the story.
What would I have done?
Identify a character’s dilemma and the choices available at the time. Develop an alternate ending that is historically plausible and explain it using evidence.
Contrasting perspectives
Read across two lives or trace a theme such as freedom, political loyalty or religious identity. Ask how social position changes what a person can do.
Create a historical artifact
Write a letter, petition or diary entry that could fit a character’s circumstances. Label it as a student-created simulation and explain the sources behind its details.
Plan for your classroom
Chromebooks and desktop browsers: Revolutions & Industrialization, Plague of Athens Web App, Black Death Interactive and the Generation Revolution prototype.
Tablets and interactive books: Empires & Interconnections and Black Death Interactive. Check each product page for the current platform options.
Virtual reality: Plague of Athens VR supports compatible Meta Quest, Steam VR and Pico headsets.
Film and short episodes: Al-Khwarizmi Docudrama opens discussions about the Islamic Golden Age, mathematics, computing, and the relationship between historical evidence and dramatization.
Preview the material and interactive features before class. Use individual exploration, small groups or a shared screen to suit your students and devices.
More classroom resources are on the way.
Product-specific teacher guides and classroom decks are planned. The downloadable educator guide above is available now.