https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/world-history/x66f79d8a:origins-of-history/x66f79d8a:history-and-memory-1-4/a/activity-opener-worst-day-ever 2026-06-30T12:40:47.173333589Z Activity: Worst Day Ever? How can changing your perspective help you see things differently? Give it a shot and see. article https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/world-history/x66f79d8a:origins-of-history/x66f79d8a:history-and-memory-1-4/a/activity-how-to-read-comics 2026-06-30T12:40:47.173333589Z How to Read Comics Graphic biographies might look simple at first, but there are layers of meaning embedded in them. Explore how to read a comic with historian Trevor Getz. article https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/world-history/x66f79d8a:origins-of-history/x66f79d8a:history-and-memory-1-4/a/activity-getting-to-know-comics 2026-06-30T12:40:47.173333589Z Activity: Getting to Know Comics Keep track of important details as you learn how to read comics. article https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/world-history/x66f79d8a:origins-of-history/x66f79d8a:history-and-memory-1-4/a/activity-three-step-reading-for-graphic-biographies 2026-06-30T12:40:47.173333589Z Activity: Three-Step Reading for Graphic Biographies This tool will help you read more than just the words on the page. Fill out this worksheet as you read the first graphic biography in the course. article https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/world-history/x66f79d8a:origins-of-history/x66f79d8a:history-and-memory-1-4/a/graphic-biography-history-and-memory-origins 2026-06-30T12:40:47.173333589Z History and Memory Graphic Bio History and memory often serve different purposes, but both can help us understand the world. Learn how in this graphic biography about one family's history. Use the Three Close Reads for Graphic Bios Tool to help you analyze this graphic bio. article https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/world-history/x66f79d8a:origins-of-history/x66f79d8a:history-and-memory-1-4/v/collective-learning-world-history-project-beta 2026-05-07T20:10:46.752915086Z Collective Learning Collective learning is one of the developments that made our species distinct from others. It is the human ability to use language to share and pool information. While you watch, answer these questions: 1. What is collective learning? 2. How is collective learning important to the history of humanity? 3. Why is symbolic language important to collective learning? 4. What are some negative impacts of collective learning? After you watch, respond to this question: Can you think of an example from your life where you learned something from someone older than you? What was it, and where did they learn it? World History Project video https://cdn.kastatic.org/googleusercontent/Gqzbjge7yqfpEj07qKGOhHKROvknAWO8dSu-sj7iVHOTTlpjoPrRfdcOjx_prAY_1X0i2kn8bi-pkLEW-Fe3TAkTDQ Collective Learning Collective learning is one of the developments that made our species distinct from others. It is the human ability to use language to share and pool information. While you watch, answer these questions: 1. What is collective learning? 2. How is collective learning important to the history of humanity? 3. Why is symbolic language important to collective learning? 4. What are some negative impacts of collective learning? After you watch, respond to this question: Can you think of an example from your life where you learned something from someone older than you? What was it, and where did they learn it? https://cdn.kastatic.org/ka-youtube-converted/rSzUkMFbcO0.mp4/rSzUkMFbcO0.mp4 547 History and Memory | 1.4 https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/world-history/x66f79d8a:origins-of-history/x66f79d8a:history-and-memory-1-4/a/activity-closer-unit-1-notebook-part-2 2026-06-30T12:40:47.173333589Z Activity: Unit 1 Notebook—Part 2 How has your understanding changed since the beginning of the unit? Time to revisit the UP Notebook! article https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/world-history/x66f79d8a:origins-of-history/x66f79d8a:history-and-memory-1-4/e/1-4-practice 2026-06-30T12:40:47.173333589Z History and Memory Explore how history and memory shape our understanding of the past in different and sometimes conflicting ways. Jessica Shattuck exercise https://www.khanacademy.org/science/cosmology-and-astronomy/life-earth-universe/humanity-on-earth-tutorial/v/collective-learning 2026-06-30T12:40:47.173333589Z How symbolic language drives collective learning How symbolic language drives collective learning and how this is one of the truly differentiating aspects of human beings relative to the rest of the animal kingdom Sal Khan video https://cdn.kastatic.org/googleusercontent/kjjhiyLj0xa3mOUW0J3jIYhDsCZ0gdV8JZgkC_xTOCJX4uvmwMTj5SPNuw4P4_5pGzvLlBVKsf3HUNDLHM544a6P How symbolic language drives collective learning How symbolic language drives collective learning and how this is one of the truly differentiating aspects of human beings relative to the rest of the animal kingdom https://cdn.kastatic.org/ka-youtube-converted/NqR_dtZu4Mo.mp4/NqR_dtZu4Mo.mp4 797 History and Memory | 1.4