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Welcome to Teaching Big History.

I am your host, Michelle Mondesir.

This is the first of a five-day course for you, the teacher,

to get your head around Big History

and start planning your year.

The way this works is you'll spend about

an hour and a half each session, give or take,

getting a solid overview of the course,

and then start planning your year.

You'll go through a terrific collection of videos,

teacher posts, and activities to get yourself familiar

with this course.

Then you will join our online teacher community to discuss

and hopefully understand this material a little better.

If it feels like a lot, it is.

That's why we've taken care to organize it in a way

that is useful for you.

Ideally, you should do one session a day for five days,

but of course you can move at whatever pace

works best for you.

Just make sure you have some thinking time

between each session.

Along the way, you'll meet Jenny and Jillian,

and the other veteran BHP teachers who will guide you

through this course and help you to look at a lot

of different pieces and figure out how they come together

to tell a story billions of years in the making.

You can do that in five days, right?

Sure you can, let's get started.

For more infomation >> Session 1 - Host Video | Big History Project - Duration: 1:13.

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Session 2 - Host Video | Big History Project - Duration: 1:30.

Welcome back.

Time for session two of Teaching Big History.

Your head might feel a bit like the "everything" drawer

in my kitchen, full of things I need and use,

but not exactly organized.

Don't worry, Jenny will be back soon

to help you connect the dots.

So far you've heard from David Christian,

who walked through the history of the universe in 18 minutes.

This is pretty crucial, as this story serves

as the foundation for the entire year,

connecting all of the little details.

You've also started to get a sense of how the course

is structured, even poked around the site a little,

exploring the first three units.

But the most important thing you should have done by now

is signed up for the BHP teacher community.

I'm serious!

If you haven't done that yet, go back and do it now!

This is the place where you can ask questions

and get ideas and inspiration from other BHP teachers.

As you go through each part of Teaching Big History,

we hope you get in the habit of using that valuable resource.

Now, in this session, we'll dive into the meatier topics

of the course a little more.

You will get an overview of some of the big ideas

and how they help students create a coherent sense

of history as well as how the lessons are structured.

You will also learn more about the first three thresholds

of big history.

At the end of the session, you will go back

to the community and start to explore four and five.

At this point you're starting to realize just how much

there is to cover in 13.8 billion years.

Don't worry, you got this.

For more infomation >> Session 2 - Host Video | Big History Project - Duration: 1:30.

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Full video: Vice President Mike Pence's speech in Iowa - Duration: 32:56.

For more infomation >> Full video: Vice President Mike Pence's speech in Iowa - Duration: 32:56.

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Spay and Neuter 80's Music Video - Duration: 3:02.

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Be animal heroes

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They can have up

To sixteen babies a year

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Oh my! Oh dear!

Spay and Neuter your pets

Spay and Neuter your pets

It's easy

Just take 'em to the vet

Spay and Neuter your pets

Spay and Neuter your pets

It's easy

Just take 'em to the vet

Just one more thing

Before we go

These are important

Words for you to know

Clap your hands

Repeat after me

Are you ready?

1, 2, 1, 2, 3, 4

Spay, Neuter

Spay, Neuter

Spay and Neuter your pets

Spay and Neuter your pets

It's easy

Just take 'em to the vet

Spay and Neuter your pets

Spay and Neuter your pets

It's easy

Just take 'em to the vet

For more infomation >> Spay and Neuter 80's Music Video - Duration: 3:02.

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David Bowow - "Spay and Neuter" 80s Music Video - Duration: 3:02.

Spay and Neuter your pets

Spay and Neuter your pets

Spay and Neuter your pets

Spay and Neuter your pets

Get your pet fixed

It's something you should do

It'll save lives

And keep them healthy too

Do this for your pets

And you'll change the world

Be animal heroes

Come on, boys and girls

Spay and Neuter your pets

Spay and Neuter your pets

It's easy

Just take 'em to the vet

Spay and Neuter your pets

Spay and Neuter your pets

It's easy

Just take 'em to the vet

Be sure your pets

Are neutered and spayed

So they won't have babies

And won't run away

They can have up

To sixteen babies a year

Whoa! That's a lot

Oh my! Oh dear!

Spay and Neuter your pets

Spay and Neuter your pets

It's easy

Just take 'em to the vet

Spay and Neuter your pets

Spay and Neuter your pets

It's easy

Just take 'em to the vet

Just one more thing

Before we go

These are important

Words for you to know

Clap your hands

Repeat after me

Are you ready?

1, 2, 1, 2, 3, 4

Spay, Neuter

Spay, Neuter

Spay and Neuter your pets

Spay and Neuter your pets

It's easy

Just take 'em to the vet

Spay and Neuter your pets

Spay and Neuter your pets

It's easy

Just take 'em to the vet

For more infomation >> David Bowow - "Spay and Neuter" 80s Music Video - Duration: 3:02.

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Session 5 - Host Video | Big History Project - Duration: 0:53.

Four down, one more to go.

You've taken a lot in over the last four sessions.

And yes, we have saved the best for last.

Not only will you get the chance to plan your year in BHP,

but you will glimpse the future.

At this point, you've gone through all

of the key instructional topics we're going to cover.

You've gone over all of the thresholds but the last,

and you've had a chance to explore the entire course.

In this final session of Teaching Big History,

you will hear advice from a few more teachers to get you

ready for the year, wrap up the last threshold,

and take a brief look at the future.

Then you will get ready to plan your course.

This is probably the most important task you have

before the year starts.

Don't be shy about asking questions

as you develop your plans.

Now, let's hear from those teachers.

For more infomation >> Session 5 - Host Video | Big History Project - Duration: 0:53.

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Motivational Lines ( Whatsapp Status Video | Life Inspirational Quotes ) Quotes About Life - Duration: 0:31.

Whatsapp Status Video

For more infomation >> Motivational Lines ( Whatsapp Status Video | Life Inspirational Quotes ) Quotes About Life - Duration: 0:31.

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Session 3 - Host Video | Big History Project - Duration: 1:25.

Welcome to our third session of Teaching Big History.

We've covered a lot of ground so far, and there's more to come.

If you try to do this all at once,

you might pull a muscle in your brain.

I know, I know, it's hard to take a break

when the material is this good, but pace yourself.

Each time you finish a session, take some time to think

about it, talk about it with colleagues and friends,

and sleep on it if you can.

Now, to recap our last session.

You looked at different strategies used in BHP

to help students connect various aspects of the course:

thresholds, scale, and interdisciplinarity.

Then you started diving into the details

of the first three thresholds.

Finally, you should have spent a little time exploring

units four and five.

I really hope you posted some questions and reactions

in the community.

You are going to need these folks later, I promise.

In this session, we're going to take a look at three really big

instructional topics in this course: critical thinking,

reading, and writing.

Then, we are going to move on to take a closer look

at thresholds four and five, looking at the solar system

and how life emerged here on Earth.

After this session you'll be more than halfway

through the course, so congratulate yourself.

Have a cookie or something.

Now, here are Jenny and Jillian to get you started

on critical thinking, reading, and writing.

For more infomation >> Session 3 - Host Video | Big History Project - Duration: 1:25.

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Session 4 - Host Video | Big History Project - Duration: 1:17.

Session four.

Welcome back.

Now I hope you took my advice and put a day between sessions.

By now I'm sure you're starting to see how big Big History is.

I don't just mean the 14 billion years.

I mean the connections from one discipline to the next,

the links between ideas you don't expect to find

in the same school, much less the same classroom.

In the last session, we covered a lot of ground.

Critical thinking is not just a buzzword in BHP.

With claim testing, scale, and interdisciplinarity,

students have a real means of developing this skill.

Reading and writing are essential here

so we've provided those tools.

You've been through thresholds looking at the solar system

and life on Earth, as well as Units Six and Seven.

For this session, we will explore student inquiry,

reading video, then look at the Little Big History Project

that concludes the course.

You will start setting up your class and take a look

at the thresholds of collective learning and agriculture.

Finally, you will explore and discuss Units Eight,

Nine, and Ten.

This is really important since you are just about ready

to start developing your course plan.

Now, let's get started talking about inquiry.

For more infomation >> Session 4 - Host Video | Big History Project - Duration: 1:17.

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VIDEO: Inside Florida School Lockdown, Students Terrified As SWAT Searches | Heavy.com | SML TV - Duration: 2:37.

VIDEO: Inside Florida School Lockdown, Students Terrified As SWAT Searches | Heavy.com

With no official reports, terrified students post videos, images and pleas for information and help during a lockdown Tuesday morning at the Osceola County School of the Arts in Kissimmee, Florida.

Frightening video tells the story.

Posted by AJ, who says, "This SHOULD NOT be my learning environment.

#GunControlNow.

During a Periscope live video, students hiding and speaking in whispers as SWAT and police K-9 teams comb the school, share their fear as commenters on the live video offer encouragement and recommend they "call your worried parents.

@PENTAGONlSM on #Periscope: my school is on lockdown and i want to do this in case anythin… https://t.

co/hw2N5ZfY8w pic. twitter.

com/KeNoqYzmrD — joyitIS (@JoyitIS206) March 6, 2018  .

Here's the link the the then-live Periscope video.

At the end of the more than 45-minute video documenting the lockdown, one can hear the PA system announce it's all clear and to just go about your regular day, which based on he reactions of students may be difficult.

Im shaking. I love you all.

Lets all go home tonight https://t.co/am41Q6hkN1 — Juliet Joy.