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.

Sample Materials

Free teacher support materials are now available! Resources include sample chapters, IWB
activities, assessment rubrics, lesson plans, worksheets and sample responses. The teacher
resources pages are constantly updated so bookmark this page.