Description

You might be surprised to see the very first history topic so ’late’ in the curriculum. Why? History is important, but not more important than being able to read or count. Major historic events are already sneakily taught through the games and stories in other topics. And finally, history is only useful if it’s about understanding systems and events, not just memorizing dates or names. Now that we’re at Level 3, we can actually create proper games and stories to discover history in a fun and effective way.

Objectives

The learning objectives in this topic are defined as follows.

• Understand what history and prehistory means.
• Understand why it’s important: everything that happens now is the result of what happened before.
• Know the broad strokes of history: the major periods and what they mean.
• Understand the transition points between historic periods and what caused them.