BHP Team Washington, USA Note from the BHP Team: In this month’s Big Skills article, “When You Don’t Have All the Answers… Don’t Sweat It,” BHP Director Bob Regan walks us through Big History Project’s approach toward interdisciplinarity. You don’t need to know all the answers, you just need to be OK with taking on … Continue reading Teacher Takes: Interdisciplinarity and Lead Learning in BHP
Teaching Claim Testing to Middle Schoolers
In Lesson 1.3, students are introduced to claim testing, a skill that is fundamental to Big History. The activity "Claim Testing: What Are the Claim Testers?" is the second in the practice progression for this skill. Through this activity, students are introduced to the claim testers and get a broad overview of the four types: … Continue reading Teaching Claim Testing to Middle Schoolers
How and Why Do Theories Become Generally Accepted? A Unit 4 Deep Dive
Bridgette Byrd O’Connor, BHP Team Member Louisiana, USA So, in prepping to write this blog post, I went back to the amazing one Rachel Hansen wrote for Unit 3. I must admit that reading her recollections of high school chemistry brought me back to my own high school days. While I didn’t set anything on … Continue reading How and Why Do Theories Become Generally Accepted? A Unit 4 Deep Dive
