Grasp the AP World Historical past Examination with WHP AP Course: Free Articles & Movies

We’re excited to announce the World Historical past Venture AP (WHP AP) course! WHP AP is aligned to the AP World Historical past: Trendy Course and Examination Description (CED) and offers college students with free articles, movies, and first supply collections that can assist you succeed on the AP examination. WHP AP was constructed on the muse and success of different OER Venture programs however designed particularly for alignment with the AP World Historical past (CED). As with all AP programs, WHP AP is a college-level course, with articles and movies which can be written by and have distinguished historians and teachers. 

Khan Academy and OER have labored collectively to make this thrilling, partaking, and related course accessible to all learners. By movies, articles, and artifacts, learners will be capable of entry key concepts and ideas by means of a number of modalities and get well timed suggestions on their studying. 

OER Venture curricula are complete, together with numerous views and a number of narratives. Plus, they’re all out there on-line and free! WHP AP supplies are designed to assist numerous learners and supply alternatives for all college students to have interaction in college-level materials. There are quite a few supplies out there at oerproject.com—register without spending a dime for full entry to the hyperlinks beneath!

• For those who’re a trainer, construct your information and expertise with World Historical past Venture’s on-line skilled growth programs, together with Instructing AP World Historical past. There you’ll discover further sources, together with a WHP AP-CED Alignment Information; a WHP AP syllabus with a course audit quantity, authorized by Faculty Board;  a WHP AP Course Information; and data on WHP AP apply development actions that concentrate on historic considering expertise comparable to contextualization, declare testing, and sourcing and reasoning processes like causation, continuity and alter over time (CCOT), and comparability. College students will want all of those expertise and reasoning processes to reach their social research programs, their AP courses, and in life!

• For those who’re a scholar, make the most of our free AP course supplies, together with WHP AP Overview movies that present key insights into every unit of the course and are additionally nice for reviewing earlier than the examination, a Themes video and article that can assist you study the completely different AP themes with a view to use them on the examination, articles and movies aligned to the AP CED, major supply collections that can assist you apply your sourcing expertise, and graphic biographies to make studying AP content material a bit extra enjoyable!

We hope you get pleasure from this preview of the WHP AP course on Khan Academy, and keep tuned for the remainder of the course that’s coming in July!

WHP AP FAQs

Is WHP AP authorized by Faculty Board?

Sure! The WHP AP course is Faculty Board-approved as a school textbook, and the WHP AP syllabus has the Faculty Board stamp of approval as properly. Academics can submit the WHP AP syllabus to the Faculty Board in the course of the course audit course of.

The OER Venture crew carried out an intensive evaluation of WHP AP content material property to make sure they align with the AP World Historical past: Trendy Course and Examination Description (CED). The CED identifies studying targets, historic developments, themes, and expertise inside every unit. WHP AP both has a single content material asset or a number of property to handle every of those matters. Consequently, every article, video, and exercise within the course aligns with particular necessities within the CED. Take a look at the WHP AP-CED Alignment Information for extra info.

What makes WHP AP completely different from different AP World Historical past: Trendy curricula?

WHP AP is without doubt one of the few free-to-use Faculty Board-certified AP World Historical past programs out there right now, and the standard of its supplies and tutorial mannequin meets or exceeds that of any current textbook.

Developed throughout a three-year pilot examine and knowledgeable by insights from studying scientists and current AP® World Historical past: Trendy academics, the WHP AP curriculum contains articles, actions, movies, and assessments. College students study higher after they’re engaged, and WHP AP additionally makes room for enjoyable alongside the best way.

Distinctive options

• Common updates with the most recent analysis, info, and enhancements, that means you received’t must wrestle with out-of-date textbooks ever once more
• Instructing WHP AP (free login required), a complimentary on-line PD course that walks you thru the construction of the curriculum, demonstrates how expertise are scaffolded, and introduces you to key supplies
• The OER Venture On-line Trainer Group (free login required), an lively hub the place academics swap concepts and search assist

How did you incorporate trainer suggestions into the WHP AP growth course of?

WHP AP was the product of a three-year piloting course of throughout which a bunch of fifty AP World Historical past: Trendy academics taught the supplies and offered suggestions on how they may very well be improved to higher serve college students. This iterative back-and-forth course of resulted in a stronger, easier-to-use curriculum that our pilot academics are pleased with.

What’s the distinction between the WHP AP course on Khan Academy and the WHP AP course on OER Venture?

Taking the WHP AP course on Khan Academy is a wonderful technique to overview the CED-aligned articles and movies that make up the course. Head to oerproject.com for extra classroom actions, comparable to WHP AP apply development actions that concentrate on historic considering expertise. For academics, oerproject.com can be the placement of our skilled growth programs, together with Instructing AP World Historical past. 

To whom ought to I attain out if I’ve questions on WHP AP?

You possibly can at all times electronic mail us at crew@oerproject.com. A member of our crew can be in contact immediately to reply questions, clear up technical hurdles, or take your feedback!