World History Interactive Frequently Asked Questions

High School World History Curriculum

What is World History Interactive?

World History Interactive for grades 9-12 is a print and digital student-centered program with robust teacher support. World History Interactive focuses on engaging students by connecting historic content to students’ lives today, a foundation of inquiry-based learning, engaging digital activities, and more. Take an Interactive Tour of World History Interactive.


What is available to purchase?

The program is made up of:

  • Student Edition - Available in digital or print. The student edition has a magazine-style layout to increase readability with a 50/50 text to visual balance. The digital student edition, or Realize Reader, has embedded leveled lesson summaries to meet the needs of all students.
  • Teacher’s Edition - Available in digital or print, the Teacher’s Edition includes wrap-around pages that provide direct instruction and teaching suggestions to engage students. Planning pages for each topic and lesson make implementation and pacing easy for teachers. Active Classroom Strategies, ELL support, SEL support and more are available at point of use.
  • World History Interactive Digital Course - the World History Interactive digital courseware on Savvas Realize™ includes robust digital tools that give teachers flexibility to use a digital, print, or blended format in their classrooms. Teachers can customize the program to rearrange content, upload their own content, add links to online media, and edit resources and assessments. Resources include:
    • Listenwise current events podcasts
    • Project Imagine digital activities
    • Lesson summary videos
    • Spanish lesson summaries and audio
    • Interactive Primary Sources
    • Interactive Digital Activities
    • Quest Topic Inquiry projects
  • Primary Source and Reading Guide Workbook - Available in digital and print, this workbook contains multiple primary sources per topic for additional analysis, as well as worksheets for each lesson designed to help students’ reading of the student text.


Is World History Interactive inquiry based?

World History Interactive is built on the C3 Framework for inquiry in social studies. Each topic and lesson follows the Connect-Investigate-Synthesize-Demonstrate learning model. Each topic also contains a Quest Topic Inquiry, which contains project-based assessment such as civic discussion, document-based writing, or a team project. The teacher’s edition also includes active classroom strategies, which are low-prep, high impact ways to add inquiry into your classroom.


What differentiation support is available in World History Interactive?

World History Interactive contains lesson summaries in English and Spanish at two different reading levels. You will find them in the Realize Digital Course. The Realize Reader eText contains a leveled lesson summary with audio at point of use within each lesson. Topic Tests are also delivered at three different levels - on-level, above-level, and below-level. In addition, content is delivered to students in a variety of ways, so teachers can assign lesson flipped video summaries (each is 2-5 minutes long) to visual and auditory learners.


How do I sign up for a World History Interactive digital demo?

World History Interactive digital courseware on Savvas Realize™ includes robust digital tools that give teachers flexibility to use a digital, print, or blended format in their classrooms. Teachers can customize the program to rearrange content, upload their own content, add links to online media, and edit resources and assessments. Program-specific resources, flexible agnostic resources, and assessments are available in one location for easy lesson planning and presentation. Click here to sign up for a demo.


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