The Big History Project

In this task you will create a presentation that examines a topic from our History course.

Step 1. Choose a topic of interest to you

Step 2 Formulate an historical question or proposition (statement) that has a particular focus about your topic and have it approved by your teacher.

Step 3 Once your topic is finalised with your teacher, read and research as much as you can about the topic. 

  • The finished project must represent your work as a pair. 

  • Format: Can be anything from artifacts, posters, board games, websites, models, film. See below for suggestions

  • It may invite some kind of response: quiz, survey, comment, an evaluation, music, poetry, an action plan, mapping, interaction of some kind.

The following topics we examined in class are a good place to start.

  • The Vikings

  • The Angkor empire

  • The Mongols

  • The Black Death

Framework for exploring history questions

Each group member must design an investigation question that relates to their groups topic but is unique to the individual. Each individual question must be linked to one of the following concepts:

  • Evidence: How do we know what we know?

  • Continuity and Change: How have things changed or continued over time?

  • Cause and Effect: What caused an event or series of events, and what are the lasting effects?

  • Significance: How significant was an event, what was its legacy?  

  • Perspectives: What were the perspectives of people in the past and how do perspectives on the past differ today?

  • Empathy: What was life really like for individuals?

  • Contestability: When aspects of history are up for debate due to a lack of evidence different opinions.