// In secondary classrooms
World History
1st Choice Recommended
World History and Geography (2018)
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Print Edition ISBNs:
- Student (2018): 978-0-07-668386-4
- Teacher (2018): 978-0-07-668387-1
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- Partnerships with BBC/Learn360
- Based on Understanding by Design
- Utilizes LearnSmart®, an adaptive study tool
- Multilingual glossary (digital)
- Easy access of Spanish language texts (digital)
- Planning and pacing guide
- Extensive resource library including primary source library, simulations, edtechteacher, Inquiry Journal
- Interactive and printable maps (digital)
- Ability to adjust Lexile reading levels
- Editable teacher resources
- Student edition PDF printout
- Embedded world religions and geography skills handbooks
- Includes extensive differentiated instruction tools
- Online assessment center
- Strong focus on geography
- Concern: Assessment question banks do not export to third-party assessment software i.e. ExamView
2nd Choice Recommended
World History (2018)
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Print Edition ISBNs:
- Student (2018): 978-0-544-66822-5
- Teacher (2018): 978-0-544-91556-5
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- Excellent interactive maps and charts (digital)
- Partnerships with Maps.com, Google Expedition, and Channel One
- Videos with History.com available as clips and full length
- Digital graphic organizer/note-taking
- Well-organized student/teacher resources
- Visually appealing
- Audio/read-along highlights
- Spiral-bound teacher’s edition in multiple volumes
- Online document-based investigations
- Student edition PDF printout
- Multimedia connections integrated in each module
- Editable slide presentations
- Immediate feedback on student reading checks (online)
- Concerns: Textbook lacks yearly/semester pacing guide, online and print lesson assessments differ, limited ability to edit teacher resources, and assessment question banks do not export to third-party assessment software i.e. ExamView
3rd Choice Recommended
World History (2016)
Publisher: Pearson
Print Edition ISBNs:
- Student (2016): 978-0-13-330702-3
- Teacher (2016): 978-0-13-332856-1
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- Excellent interactive maps and charts (digital)
- Partnerships with OpenEd, Constitutional Rights Foundation, Civic Action Project, and NBC Learn
- Ability to edit assessments online and with ExamView
- Project-based learning modules
- Organizable digital note-taking
- Well-organized student/teacher resources
- Teacher designed content can be added to Topics (chapters)
- Visually appealing
- Editable slide presentations
- Concerns: Music enrichment activities limited to hip-hop style and text appears to be at a low reading level
