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AP World History Course Home Page

World History Course Information
  AP World History Course Description (.pdf/2.5MB)
  AP World History Teacher's Guide
(.pdf/1.7MB)

  AP World History Course Perspective
  AP World History Development Committee
  Sample Syllabi 

Exam Information
  AP World History 2006 Generic Scoring Guidelines(.pdf/87KB)
  AP World History Exam Page
  Free AP World History Practice Exam
  Letter from the Chief Reader

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Teaching Resource Materials
  Web Guide for AP World History
  Lesson Plan: AP World History News Research Project
  Teaching Tips

For the Classroom
  Teaching About the Indian Ocean World (.pdf/2MB)

College Board Products
  AP World History Teaching Units
  CB Store: Products for AP World History
  Free Excerpts from the AP Teacher's Guide in World History
  Erratum Notice: Teacher's Guide - AP World History
  AP World History Best Practices

Feature Articles
  Social History and World History: Toward Greater Interaction New!
  "What's the Use of Big History?" New!
  Structuring the World History Survey: A First Timer Confesses
  Teaching Consumerism in World History
  The Role of the Individual in World History
  World History: Curriculum and Controversy
  Matching Textbook Ancillary Resources to Teaching and Learning Styles in the AP Classroom 
  An Emerging Consensus About World History? 
  The Voyages of Christine Columbus 
  Review Essay: Teaching the Great Divergence 
  The Change-Over-Time Question: Teaching Techniques
  Strategies for the Change-Over-Time Question
  Why the West?

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  AP World History Electronic Discussion Group
  Registration for Electronic Discussion Groups

Subscribe to the AP Central AP World History Newsletter
About twice a school year, the AP Central staff compiles and sends email updates alerting members to important program updates and new content items for AP World History. You automatically receive this course newsletter unless you choose the "Do not send" option on the Personal Profile page. To see an example of the AP World History newsletter, click on the link below.
  AP World History Newsletter
  Personal Profile

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