LEADER 00000cam 2200697Ii 4500 001 ocn894227145 003 OCoLC 005 20200612064308.4 006 m o d 007 cr mn||||||||| 008 141103t20152015caua ob 001 0 eng d 020 9780520959385|q(electronic bk.) 020 0520959388|q(electronic bk.) 020 |z9780520283541|q(Cloth) 020 |z0520283546|q(Cloth) 020 |z9780520283558|q(Paper) 020 |z0520283554|q(Paper) 035 (OCoLC)894227145|z(OCoLC)1055331920|z(OCoLC)1066458342 |z(OCoLC)1081290378 040 N$T|beng|erda|epn|cN$T|dYDXCP|dOCLCQ|dE7B|dOCLCQ|dOSU |dJSTOR|dOCLCQ|dD6H|dCOCUF|dCNNOR|dCCO|dPIFAG|dAGLDB|dU3W |dMERER|dSTF|dVNS|dOCLCQ|dVTS|dOCLCQ|dVT2|dOCLCQ|dWYU|dG3B |dLVT|dTKN|dHS0 049 MAIN 050 4 D16.25|b.T39 2015eb 082 04 001|223 245 00 Teaching big history /|cedited by Richard B. Simon, Mojgan Behmand, and Thomas Burke. 264 1 Oakland, California :|bUniversity of California Press, |c[2015] 264 4 |c©2015 300 1 online resource (xvi, 426 pages) :|billustrations 336 text|btxt|2rdacontent 337 computer|bc|2rdamedia 338 online resource|bcr|2rdacarrier 505 0 Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Tables; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART ONE: THE CASE FOR BIG HISTORY; 1. What Is Big History?; 2. Big History and the Goals of Liberal Education; 3. Summer Institutes: Collective Learning as Meta-Education; 4. Assessing Big History Outcomes: Or, How to Make Assessment Inspiring; 5. Big History at Other Institutions; PART TWO: A PRACTICAL PEDAGOGY FOR TEACHING BIG HISTORY; 6. Teaching Complexity in a Big History Context; 7. Teaching Threshold 1: The Big Bang; 8. Teaching Threshold 2: The Formation of Stars and Galaxies 505 8 9. Teaching Threshold 3: Heavier Chemical Elements and the Life Cycle of Stars10. Teaching Threshold 4: The Formation of Our Solar System and Earth; 11. Teaching Threshold 5: The Evolution of Life on Earth; 12. Teaching Threshold 6: The Rise of Homo sapiens; 13. Teaching Threshold 7: The Agrarian Revolution; 14. Teaching Threshold 8: Modernity and Industrialization; 15. Threshold 9? Teaching Possible Futures; 16. Reflective Writing in the Big History Classroom; 17. Activities for Multiple Thresholds; 18. Igniting Critical Curiosity: Fostering Information Literacy through Big History 505 8 19. A Little Big History of Big HistoryPART THREE: BIG HISTORY AND ITS IMPLICATIONS; 20. Big History at Dominican : An Origin Story; 21. Teaching Big History or Teaching about Big History? Big History and Religion; 22. The Case for Awe; Conclusion; Annotated Bibliography of Big History Texts and Resources; List of Contributors; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z 650 0 History|xStudy and teaching. 650 0 Physical sciences|xStudy and teaching. 700 1 Simon, Richard B.,|d1971-|eeditor. 700 1 Behmand, Mojgan,|eeditor. 700 1 Burke, Thomas,|d1957-|eeditor. 856 40 |uhttps://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt9qh2dw 921 . 936 JSTOR-E-2019-20