General Big History Resources
- The Big History Project
- Big Picture Science
- Science Friday
- Living on Earth
- StarTalk Radio
- TED Talk
- History Channel
- Crash Course
- Big History Institute
- Scientific American
- The Skeptic's Guide to the Universe
- National Geographic
- The Ultimate Collection Project
- National Geographic YouTube Playlist
- Meme Generator
- Described and Captioned Videos
- TED Talk: Comics in the Classroom
- NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Women in the Sciences
- Ask a Spaceman
- Motel of the Mysteries
- Fact Checking
- 21st Century Skills Sets
- Mindmup Online Mindmapping App
- History Simulations
- A Mighty Girl Scientist Posters
- Beyond Curie Scientist Posters
- Bob Bain's Narrative Frame
- 3 Close Reads
- Sentence Starters
- 12 Museums Offering Virtual Field Trips
- NASA Graphic Novels
Unit #1: What is Big History
- ChronoZoom (Timeline creator)
- International Big History Association
- Timeline JS
- Juxtapose
- Hstry (another cool timeline creator)
- God in Big History
- StoryMap: Maps that tell stories
- Big Myths (Animated Origin Stories)
- How Your Brain Tricks You Into Believing Fake News (Good Ideas for Teaching Claim Testing)
- Scale: 15 Quick Scientific Facts that Will Blow Your Mind
- TED Talk (Claim Testing): 3 lessons on decision-making from a poker champion
- Scale: Mysterious 'Bridge' of Radio Waves Between Galaxies Seems to Be Smashing the Laws of Physics (But It’s Not)
- Chilling New Study Says Most College Educated Americans Fail At Basic Digital Literacy
- 75 Mind-Blowing Facts You’ll Think Are Made Up (But Aren’t)
Unit #2: The Big Bang
- Newton's Laws: Crash Course Physics #5
- Epic Rap Battles: Sir Isaac Newton vs. Bill Nye
- TED ED: How can you change someone's mind? (hint: facts aren't always enough)
- Biography of Galileo
- TED-ED: Does Time Exist?
- What happens if you heat two grapes in a microwave? Molten plasma
- Astronomer Mindmup Mindmap
- TED Talks Playlist: How We Study Space
- Slideshow: Images of the Big Bang to Present
- Copernicus' Map of the Solar System
Unit #3: Stars & Elements
Unit #4: Our Solar System & The Earth
- Birth of the Earth Documentary
- Continental Drift: The Alfred Wegener Song
- Lava
- TED Talk Playlist: How We Study Space
- Equal Earth Project
- Ancient Earth: Plug in your city or town and see what it looked like millions of years ago
- Magnetic Meteorites
- Girl Talk: The Marie Tharp Story
- Marie Tharp: How One Brilliant Woman Mapped the Secrets of the Ocean Floor
- TED-ED: The Pangaea Pop-up
Unit #5: Life
Unit #6: Early Humans
Unit #7: Agriculture & Civilization
Unit #8: Expansion & Interconnection
Unit #9: Acceleration
- Newsela: Time Machine
- The National Archives
- Carbon Footprint Calculator
- TED-ED: Lifecycle of a T-Shirt
- The Anthropocene
- Illinois Digital Newspaper Collection
- Smithsonian: Teaching About Climate Change
- The Fallen
- The Nuclear Threat: The Shadow of Peace
- Project 1917: The Russian Revolution
- National Geographic Immigration Tree Ring
- National Geographic: Step into Cold War Tourist Sites
- 50 Powerful Pictures From Black History That Speak For Themselves
- IEEE: Raising Engineering Awareness through the Conduit of History
- How Lichens Won World War 2
- World War 1: The British Hero Who Did Not Shoot Hitler
- Quartz Obsession: Gene Editing
- World Population Tracker
- International alliance unveils recommendations on teaching about the Holocaust — but only 12 U.S. states require it