7 Themes of History - Adams-Friendship American Experience. Teaching World History & Geography - Conceptual Frameworks. What to teach: conceptual frameworks This is the second component of a world history and geography body of knowledge to be taught in school: ....... chronological narrative ....... conceptual frameworks ....... thinking strategies What are conceptual frameworks? It is the job of conceptual frameworks to connect and organize knowledge to make it more meaningful. The alphabet, for example, is an artificial structure imposed on spoken language that enables us to read and write. A review of literature from history education and cognitive research strongly suggests that conceptual frameworks, by whatever name, contribute to meaningful understanding and should be a major component of history education. Themes History and geography educators often speak in terms of "themes" that represent an interest in phenomena that are manifested across several historical periods and/or geographic locations, and thus may offer useful insights into how humans generally behave and how the world generally works.
Filebox.vt.edu/users/ateller/portfolio/intasc4/history_alivelp.pdf. World History Matters » A Portal to World History Sites from the Center for History and New Media. Www.mistergweb.com/WHAPThemes.pdf. Apworld - Themes of AP World History. AP World History Course Details. World History for Us All: Key Theme Seven. Home > Key Themes > Seven Are morality and spirituality unique to human beings? How has human spirituality changed in the course of history? How have changing ideas of morality and spirituality shaped history?
The word spirituality refers to human awareness of a transcendental state of being, one that is beyond the material world of everyday life. It may mean belief in a supreme creator, in an afterlife, or in the existence of mysterious spirits and magical forces. Our sense of spirituality shapes how we think of the world and our place in it. It also shapes our sense of morality, that is, the way in which we recognize differences between right and wrong. Do animals have a sense of spirituality or morality? As far as we know, all human communities have had ideas of a spiritual realm and of rules for right and wrong behavior.
What can we know of the spiritual life of our distant ancestors in paleolithic times? We do have some ideas, however. How did people contact the spirit world? World History for Us All. The Six Themes in World History. - World History HIS. THEMES in AP World History with MrsBurnside.