History
This is probably best presented around 8th to 9th grade students K through 8th should be focused on local history and local culture. Take the kids on field trips to explore the local society.
Local history should be about, why the town was founded. Who founded it. What principals was the town founded on. What historical events caused the town to grow. What industries are currently popular in the town. What cultural events still take place in the town.
Or from 6th grade on. Present 1 hour at the beginning of the week and for the reset of the week, discuss, debate, and explore what was watched on monday.
Allow the kids to pursue the content on their own. Check in and see how they are making progress. “Tell me about what you watched”
Remember, there are no grades or tests. They only need an overall understanding. The goal is to present the world to them so they understand how broad and wide and diverse the world truly is.
As you watch the below, take notes on the things that stand out to you. And explain what you take away from all of this. What's the over arching theme or lessons to be learned
- link to the entire playlist. Total play time is 18h 37m. Not all videos listed below are in the youtube playlist because ?? Reasons ??
- The earth
- dinosaurs
- Overview of history (this is a good over view, but probably better broken up and used as an intro to each of the specific topics or filler for topics that are not covered, basically it's too long as a stand alone.)
- the migration of humans across the planet
- History of the nomads
- Sumerians
- Egypt
- The Greeks: Crucible of Civilization
- Aristotle on government
- Aristotle, Socrates, Plato, Western Philosophy
- Gracchi Brothers (Communist)
- Eastern Philosophy
- Shinto
- Budism/hindu
- Judaih
- Jewish Philosophy/Muslim Philosophy
- Rome (While it's a good start to finish history, she focuses too much on “immigration” claiming that conquering another nation and granting them citizenship is somehow “immigration” and claiming that they “built a wall” as to why Rome fell. She's just pushing the political nonsense of the current day politics. Rome fell, by her own description that they grew too big and sub divided the nation where the sub rulers over threw the control of Rome. Also, this video can stand to be broken up into 3 parts)
- Christian Philosophy, Culture, Politics
- The silk road
- Sun Zu
- Mayans and Incans
- The dark ages was driven by rulers no longer building great cities. They left peasants to fend for themselves. While the rulers built castles.
- Crusades
- Middle ages (Not great video, sometimes repeats itself, but the only one that talks about the capture of spain)
- ordinary people, just can't stay away from war. Even this starts telling war stories instead of every day life.
- Printing Press
- renaissance
- Galileo
- Isaac Newton
- Shakespeare
- Machiavelli
- Medicine
- an overview of germs virus and bateria
- a summary of the tuberculosis experiment
- Some ok info with some fauci nonsense, it's the second part of the first one
- Genghis Khan
- Prussia/Russia
- Maslow's hierarchy of needs
- Theory of Law, Bastiat
- History of money
- Darwin
- Native Americans
- Aztecs
- Spain in America
- Reformation
- max weber, Calvinism (Birth of capitalism)
- British Colonization
- Mercantilism
- the gaspby affair
- colonization of north america
- The revolutionary war, (last 2 episodes in the playlist are just recaps)
- The constitution
- John Locke
- Reading of the constitution and the bill of rights
- Natural Law
- Theory of law (Audio is garbage but is a good overview)
- Western expansion
- The civil war
- Lincoln
- Transcontinental railroad
- Industrial revolution
- Yellow journalism
- Mafia
- Linden Johnson
- Fleming
- Wright Brothers
- World War 1
- This doesn't capture ww2 all that well, but it does have a clip explaining the economic collapse that lead to the great depression
- The great Depression
- 1920s Dust bowl, Stock market, welfare
- Stalin
- Albert Einstein
- This is more about his scientific breakthrough as to his overall life
- Hitler, it's 3 episodes, probably don't need the 3rd episode
- World War 2
- Good overview of WW2, part 1 and 2. Part 3 is missing
- Here's another one to fill in the end of the war
- The Manhattan project
- Inflation
- Cold War
- Ayn Rand
- China Mao
- Cold War
- The space race
- Vietnam
- While this video gives interesting context, the news reporter lies towards the end then states that they are unsure of what happened contradicting his lie.
- The whole war, no simple summary, this is just an air assaults' conversation. While it covers the war from beginning to end it just of air assault. The closer to the present the more random and specific they cover events.
- Civil Rights
- North Korean War
- Thomas Sole
- Information Age
- Free Speech
- Failures of medicine
- History of scientific failures
- This is complex but the high level is that science is only guessing
- Failures of governments
- Biased News Reporting
- Scientific Method
- monopolies and government regulation
- history of economics
- Manipulation
- manufacturing consent
- Primacy of consciousness, undermining your confidence in reality
- Primacy of existence
- What is scientific debate
- News Media Literacy
- Entertainment
- Changing World Order
- Economics
- The ruling class
- a different perspective
- living in a world of uncertainty
- Entrepreneur
- possible follow up topics, they are political
- good insight into big pharma, but then the praise the people that made the covid vaccine and not highlight any of the failures they made.
- good brief summary of the different types of governments, while making a stupid statement about climate change at the end.
- He's directly arguing for libertarianism, as to presenting a more balanced argument
- This talks about lobbying and how it's bad, but then does a segment on why pot/weed should be legal. This is a bad topic for students.
