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FREE TED Talk Historical Judgment Full Curriculum Educator Planning Guide

FREE TED Talk Historical Judgment Full Curriculum Educator Planning Guide

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Free educator planning guide previewing the 13-week TED Talk Historical Judgment curriculum: 50 video lessons, six units, 12 weekly assessments, 6 unit assessments, cumulative Final, synthesis capstone, flexible pacing, differentiation, sensitive-topic guidance, and implementation. Planning guide only; lesson files are not included.

Resource type
Educator Planning Guide
Grade band
Grades 9–12
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Prep level
No-Prep
Subject
Social Studies
Classroom use
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Educator Planning Guide Course Map Pacing Guide Assessment Overview Unit Overview Implementation Notes
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FREE planning preview for the complete TED Talk Historical Judgment curriculum.

Planning guide only. This free product includes the final Educator Planning Guide. It does not include the 50 lesson files, student worksheets, quizzes, weekly assessments, unit assessments, capstone, cumulative Final, or Student Syllabus.

Use the guide to preview the 13-week pacing, six two-week units, Week 13 culmination, assessment architecture, flexible pacing options, differentiation, standards summary, and digital/print implementation before deciding which product fits your classroom.

Try a real lesson free: Ugly History: Witch Hunts - FREE TED Talk Historical Judgment lesson

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Complete 13-week curriculum: TED Talk Historical Judgment Complete Full Curriculum | 13 Weeks

Videos in the Complete Course

Each title below links to the public YouTube video so you can see exactly what the curriculum uses.

Unit 1 - Power

  1. History vs. Augustus - Peta Greenfield & Alex Gendler
  2. History vs. Cleopatra - Alex Gendler
  3. History vs. Egypt’s "most powerful" pharaoh - Jessica Tomkins
  4. History vs. Henry VIII - Mark Robinson and Alex Gendler
  5. History vs. Russia’s most infamous empress - Carolyn Harris
  6. History vs. Genghis Khan - Alex Gendler
  7. History vs. Andrew Jackson - James Fester
  8. History's deadliest king - by Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja

Unit 2 - Revolution

  1. Zumbi: The last king of Palmares - Marc Adam Hertzman & Flavio dos Santos Gomes
  2. What makes Thomas Jefferson so controversial? - Frank Cogliano
  3. History vs. Napoleon Bonaparte - Alex Gendler
  4. What is Juneteenth, and why is it important? - Karlos K. Hill and Soraya Field Fiorio
  5. History vs. Vladimir Lenin - Alex Gendler
  6. Why was India split into two countries? - Haimanti Roy
  7. History vs. Che Guevara - Alex Gendler
  8. What really happened during the Attica Prison Rebellion - Orisanmi Burton
  9. How did South African Apartheid happen, and how did it finally end? - Thula Simpson

Unit 3 - Empire

  1. Was Alexander the Great really that great? - Stephanie Honchell Smith
  2. History vs. Tamerlane the Conqueror - Stephanie Honchell Smith
  3. History vs. Christopher Columbus - Alex Gendler
  4. How one of the most profitable companies in history rose to power - Adam Clulow
  5. How one of the world’s richest companies rose to power - Shantel George
  6. The true cost of gold - Lyla Latif
  7. The dark history of the overthrow of Hawaii - Sydney Iaukea
  8. The records the British Empire didn't want you to see - Audra A. Diptée

Unit 4 - Exclusion

  1. Can stereotypes ever be good? - Sheila Marie Orfano and Densho
  2. The dark history of Mount Rushmore - Ned Blackhawk and Jeffrey D. Means
  3. The dark history of the Chinese Exclusion Act - Robert Chang
  4. Why was the US government obsessed with this animal? - Andrew C. Isenberg
  5. The movement that inspired the Holocaust - Alexandra Minna Stern and Natalie Lira
  6. Ugly History: Japanese American incarceration camps - Densho
  7. Ugly History: The U.S. Syphilis Experiment - Susan M. Reverby
  8. Why are US cities still so segregated? - Kevin Ehrman-Solberg and Kirsten Delegard

Unit 5 - State Violence

  1. Ugly History: The Spanish Inquisition - Kayla Wolf
  2. What really caused the Irish Potato Famine - Stephanie Honchell Smith
  3. One of the most controversial medical procedures in history - Jenell Johnson
  4. Ugly History: The Armenian Genocide - Ümit Kurt
  5. Ugly history: The 1937 Haitian Massacre - Edward Paulino
  6. Ugly History: The Khmer Rouge murders - Timothy Williams
  7. Ugly History: The El Mozote murders - Diana Sierra Becerra
  8. What caused the Rwandan Genocide? - Susanne Buckley-Zistel
  9. The Nazis recruited to win the Cold War - Brian Crim

Unit 6 - Propaganda

  1. Ugly History: Witch Hunts - Brian A. Pavlac
  2. What really happened during the Salem Witch Trials - Brian A. Pavlac
  3. The dark history of zombies - Christopher M. Moreman
  4. History vs. Sigmund Freud - Todd Dufresne
  5. Why is Marie Antoinette so controversial? - Carolyn Harris
  6. Mao Zedong's infamous mango cult - Vivian Jiang
  7. One of history's most dangerous myths - Anneliese Mehnert
  8. History vs. Richard Nixon - Alex Gendler

Course at a Glance

  • 50 TED/TED-Ed video lessons
  • 13-week suggested course
  • 6 units: Power, Revolution, Empire, Exclusion, State Violence, Propaganda
  • 12 weekly assessment banks
  • 6 unit assessment banks
  • Full-Curriculum Capstone Synthesis Lesson and cumulative Final

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Frequently Asked Questions

Are lesson files included?
No. This listing is the Educator Planning Guide only.

Are the videos included?
No. The guide identifies the public videos used; video files are not redistributed.

Can I use this guide to decide between a unit and the full course?
Yes. It shows the complete architecture, pacing, assessments, and implementation choices.

Independent resource notice: TED/TED-Ed videos are not included. This is an independent educator-created companion curriculum and is not affiliated with or endorsed by TED.

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