Unit Pack: The Age of Imperialism

Teach the Complexity: From Victorian Justifications to the Roots of Modern Inequality.

The Age of Imperialism is a core curriculum topic, but are your students only seeing a timeline of conquest? How do you move past a purely one-sided narrative to teach the deep causes, multiple perspectives, and lasting economic and political legacies of this pivotal era?

This Unit Pack: The Age of Imperialism, part of The Human History Project’s Ready, Click, Teach series, provides a short, 4-lesson program to transform your instruction. This unit empowers students to analyze how industrialization, nationalism, and technological competition drove global expansion, while critically evaluating both its purported benefits and documented harms.

Purchase once, and you are licensed to use this comprehensive, user-friendly digital package with all of your students, year after year.

Why This Unit Pack is Essential for Your Classroom:

This unit is structured to promote high-level historical reasoning, ethical analysis, and a globally aware perspective, ensuring a complete and balanced view of imperialism.

• Analyze Multiple Perspectives: Students engage with the justifications for empire alongside the devastating economic and social costs for colonized peoples.
• Master Historical Concepts: Dedicated lessons break down complex ideas with clarity
  • Direct vs. Indirect Rule: Students compare different methods of political control.
  • Causes of Imperialism: A clear link is drawn between the need for raw materials, new markets from Industrialization, and political Competition Between Nations.
  • Resistance & Agency: A full lesson focuses on the many forms of resistance, from political organizing (e.g., Gandhi) to armed struggle, emphasizing that imperial control was never complete.
• Connect to the Modern World: The unit's capstone focuses on the Long-Term Legacy of imperialism, allowing students to analyze its impact on modern-day borders, global economic inequality, and the rise of Globalization.

What's Included in Your Instant Download?

You receive a complete, ready-to-teach package for a 4-class unit.

• Teaching Slides
• Lesson Plans (4 complete, fully-scaffolded lessons, 45-60 mins each).
• Unit Revision Guide (A concise, print-ready document covering all key concepts and events).
• Unit Assessment (Multiple choice and critical thinking questions on causes, practices, and legacies).
• Ready-to-Use Worksheets for Core Topics

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