What's the big idea?

Education research tells us that students improve their learning and understanding when it is connected to big questions and big ideas. Such a powerful approach to learning enables students to make meaningful connections across topics and to transfer these understandings to other settings.

Oxford’s Big Ideas series for Science and Humanities draws directly on these findings. To learn more about the ideas that shaped the development of the series click here.

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Sample Materials

Free teacher support materials are now available! Resources include sample chapters, IWB activities, assessment rubrics, lesson plans, worksheets and sample responses.

 

For Humanities, go to the Humanities Resources page and select from the following titles:

Oxford Big Ideas Humanities 1
Oxford Big Ideas Humanities 2
Oxford Big Ideas Geography Level 5
Oxford Big Ideas History VELS Level 5

For Science, go to the Science Resources page and select any of the following titles to access the material you need:

Oxford Big Ideas Science 1
Oxford Big Ideas Science 2

 

The teacher resources pages are constantly updated so bookmark this page.