A comprehensive teacher guide for leading a lesson on the Bay of Pigs. Includes instructional objectives, a detailed pacing guide, and common misconception corrections, now optimized into a clean 2-page layout with enlarged fonts.
A scaffolded version of the Washington's Warning analysis worksheet for students, featuring the same primary source excerpts but with built-in sentence stems in every work area to support writing and critical thinking. This version fixes major layout and page break issues.
A scaffolded version of the Washington's Warning analysis worksheet for students, featuring the same primary source excerpts but with built-in sentence stems in every work area to support writing and critical thinking.
A peer feedback rubric for students to use during final project presentations, featuring rating scales for research, news literacy, and action plan viability.
A curated reference sheet with pre-vetted, high-quality sources for common project topics, designed to help students who struggle with the initial research phase.
A highly structured version of the project researcher log for students needing additional scaffolding, featuring sentence starters, simplified source evaluation, and a slide-by-slide guide.
A teacher-facing facilitation guide for the Impact Initiative, including project philosophy, a 10-day pacing guide, and strategies for scaffolding news literacy and differentiation.
A curated list of specific case studies for each unit (News Literacy, Immigration, Climate Change, Global Conflict, Human Rights) to help students select high-impact project topics.
A 2-page student workbook to scaffold the two-week project, including topic selection, source verification logs, action plan brainstorming, and peer review sections.
Introductory slides for the Impact Initiative project, outlining the 2-week timeline, unit choices, and the "Verification Layer" (News Literacy).
The core project handout detailing the Impact Initiative requirements, grading rubric, and two-week timeline for high school students.