Unit Pack: The Digital Age

Transform the History of Technology from a Timeline into a Turning Point

The rapid pace of technological change often leaves students feeling disconnected from history. How can educators bridge the gap between the Industrial Revolution and the rise of AI, demonstrating that past patterns still shape our future?

The Digital Age, part of The Human History Project’s Ready, Click, Teach series, offers a comprehensive, 8-lesson unit designed specifically for history educators. It provides a complete, skills-focused program that moves beyond simple timelines to analyze how the 20th-century’s great developments continue to define our world.

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 is Essential for Modern History Curricula

This unit is designed to meet rigorous standards for historical inquiry and 21st-century skill development. It forces students to think critically about continuity, change, and consequence.

• Skills-Focused Learning: Embeds essential historical and future-facing skills directly into the content
  • Ethical Reasoning: Students analyze controversial topics like dual-use technology and the ethical concerns surrounding modern AI and surveillance
  • Cause & Effect Analysis: Clearly links the Industrial Revolution as the foundation for modern technology and shows how war and global crises act as accelerators for innovation
  • Evaluating Inequality: Deep focus on the Digital Divide and how technology's benefits are unevenly shared across urban/rural, wealthy/poor communities
  • Historical Pattern Recognition: A capstone project teaches students to use past patterns (e.g., pressure leads to innovation) to design and evaluate a realistic future technology
• Comprehensive Coverage: Breaks down the journey from the 20th Century to the Digital Age

What's Included in Your Instant Download?

You receive a complete, ready-to-teach package for an 8-lesson unit:

• Teaching Slides
• Lesson Plans (8 complete, fully-scaffolded lessons)
• Unit Project Guide (The "Future Tech Proposal" project, complete with rubric and step-by-step instructions for a presentation or poster)
• Unit Revision Guide (Key ideas, concepts, and historical patterns for review)
• Unit Assessment (Mix of multiple choice and critical thinking questions on all core topics)
• Ready-to-Use Worksheets for Core Topics

Ready to equip your students with the critical tools to analyze the technological world they live in? Click "Add to Cart" and bring this essential unit to your classroom today!