The Power Grid

A 3-day introductory unit designed for Philadelphia high school students. This sequence introduces local civic structures, power dynamics, and student agency through the lens of City Hall, SEPTA, and local school board policies, complete with slides, worksheets, teacher guides, and a diagnostic quiz.

A creative social studies project where students design persuasive marketing materials (advertisements or travel brochures) to promote different types of government. Students research, analyze, and creatively pitch their government's unique systems, trade-offs, and competitive advantages using a scaffolded graphic organizer and planning packet.

A student-facing self-assessment checklist and teacher grading rubric designed to ensure and measure alignment with the Power Pitch project criteria. Features clean visual tracking grids, target indicators, and concise scoring categories.

A comprehensive, 4-unit sequence designed for a CTE Career Pathway in Early Childhood Education. Each lesson equips high school/adult students with formal workplace preparation, industry-standard credentials, and professional habits.

An interactive media literacy lesson designed for 9th-12th graders to analyze information sources, identify bias, and practice critical thinking skills that are essential for modern digital citizens. Includes instructional slides, a student analysis worksheet, discussion cards, and a comprehensive lesson plan.

A scaffolded, high-support student planning sheet designed to help students outline their country's details, reasons, audience, trade-offs, and slogans before designing in Canva. Includes fill-in-the-blank sentence starters, visual icon cues, and organized writing compartments.

A comprehensive pre-Columbian Native American history unit for 8th graders. Students engage in primary source analysis and an architectural research project highlighting pre-contact innovations, adaptations, and social structures.

An engaging history lesson exploring how ancient Mesopotamians engineered the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. Students examine key technological innovations—like irrigation, levees, canals, and the plow—and analyze how agricultural abundance triggered a societal shift toward permanent cities, division of labor, and structured government.

A highly visual, step-by-step student project guide that introduces the Power Pitch advertising campaign. It breaks down the Canva advertisement project into three chunked, manageable steps and outlines the core requirements using clear visual icons.

An AP Human Geography unit covering geographic data, thinking spatially, scales of analysis, and regional analysis to understand how geographers interpret our world.

A comprehensive close-reading lesson exploring the controversial 1876 presidential election, voter suppression, and the Compromise of 1877. Students engage with the text through chunked reading, embedded vocabulary, and a tiered UDL choice board.

A printable, single-page sheet of 4 high-contrast classroom discussion cards focusing on digital echo chambers, algorithms, AI deepfakes, and clickbait ethics.