Eye for an Eye

A comprehensive lesson exploring Mexico's physical geography, diverse climates, and distinct economic regions. Students engage in structured side-by-side reading, vocabulary analysis, and DOK2/DOK3 text-dependent analysis.

A mini-project curriculum designed to empower young students to become local community changemakers. It guides them through brainstorming, planning, and executing simple, impactful action projects for local libraries, animal shelters, or parks.

A foundational civics lesson on incumbency, electoral advantages, and media literacy. Students explore why current politicians usually win reelection and learn to distinguish between objective news reports and opinion articles.

A quick, high-impact bell ringer lesson exploring the execution of King Louis XVI and the French royal family through a primary source engraving and a See-Think-Wonder cognitive routing activity.

An investigation of Senegal's national soccer program (Lions of Teranga), French-African economic ties, and community soccer academies.

An exploration of Norway's soccer renaissance, wealth from North Sea oil, and its high-income equality model in professional sports.

An investigation of Algerian soccer (Fennec Foxes), the geopolitics of French-Algerian dual citizenship, and soccer as a historic symbol of anti-colonial resistance.

An exploration of Jordan's rise in Asian soccer, regional development, and the geopolitical role of sports infrastructure in the Middle East.

An investigation of France's elite soccer academies, the economics of Ligue 1, and the geopolitics of suburban Paris soccer.

An exploration of soccer, national identity, and post-war reconstruction in Iraq, analyzing the Lions of Mesopotamia national soccer program.

An advanced, interdisciplinary lesson for high school and undergraduate students exploring the causal relationship between 1930s Home Owners' Loan Corporation (HOLC) redlining maps and modern-day urban heat island (UHI) effects, analyzing systemic racism and environmental injustice.

A lesson that contextualizes the key phases of the French Revolution (1789-1799) from the National Assembly to the Directory, guiding students to analyze social dynamics, political shifts, and cause-and-effect relationships.

An anthropology lesson where high school students curate and analyze contemporary artifacts that represent modern adolescent culture, exploring generational shifts in social norms and material culture.

An advanced AP US History lesson exploring the constitutional, economic, and political crises that fractured the United States between 1828 and 1861. Students analyze key events including the Tariff of Abominations, State v. Mann, the Wilmot Proviso, and the rise of the Know-Nothing Party through lectures and structured primary sources.

An advanced AP US History lecture series exploring the constitutional, economic, and political crises that fractured the United States between 1833 and 1861. This lesson highlights key legislative compromises, executive decisions, and judicial rulings that made sectional conflict and the Civil War inevitable.

An inquiry-based social studies lesson where students explore primary and secondary sources by curating a classroom time capsule. Students analyze modern artifacts, select items representing their epoch, and write persuasive letters to future historians.