A learning target seems so benign; it's just one sentence explaining what your lesson will be for the day. But behold, my fellow teachers, this little baby can make or break your observation rating....

Unit plans and lesson plans are distinctly different documents. There is no chicken and egg question here; a unit plan MUST come before the lesson plan. A unit plan starts life as a brain dump on a...

The Cold War encompasses 45 years of events; that's a LOT! The unit involves every corner of the globe. There are civil wars, proxy wars, lots of terminology, arms races and space races, military and...

For most revolutions you can simply drum into students' heads: the peasants were starving and had no rights, so they had a revolution to change the government.  Seriously, if you think about it,...

How many of us have been forced, overnight, to enter the 21st century and start using Google Classroom? Who has suffered a steep learning curve with no time to absorb the applications? Students get...

Close your eyes and picture the world. Can you see all 7 continents including their approximate shapes? Can you identify many of the countries on each continent as well as some of the geographic...