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Understanding Iran: What's Happening and Why It Matters
From ancient Persia to the CIA coup of 1953, the Islamic Revolution, and today's U.S.-Israel military strikes — this page covers Iran's full story with an interactive map, quizzes, videos, and citations on every fact.
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Ukraine: How Did We Get Here?
A thousand years of history behind Europe's biggest war. From Kievan Rus' to the 2022 invasion — with interactive maps, quizzes, and easter eggs.
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Understanding AI: What It Is, How It Works, and Why Everyone's Talking About It
From neural networks to ChatGPT — explore the science, the people, and the big questions behind artificial intelligence. With quizzes, podcasts, and easter eggs.
Climate Change: Where Are We Now?
The science, the politics, the solutions — and why some countries are acting faster than others. What role do young people play?
Immigration: History, Policy, and People
Who gets to come to America, and who decides? From the origins of U.S. immigration law to what's happening at the border today.
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All resources on this site are freely available on GitHub under a Creative Commons license
How to Use This in Your Classroom
- Link directly to any topic page from your LMS (Canvas, Schoology, Google Classroom)
- Embed as an iframe if your district allows external sites
- Download the HTML file and host it yourself — no login required
- Quizzes and easter eggs work on any modern browser, including Chromebooks
- All images are CC-licensed or public domain — safe for school use
- Works on phones, tablets, and desktops without any app install
Contribute or Adapt
This project lives on GitHub. If you want to contribute a new topic page, fix a broken link, suggest a source, or adapt this for your own students — pull requests are welcome.
Each topic page is a single self-contained .html file — no build tools, no frameworks, no server needed. If you can edit a Google Doc, you can edit these.
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Made by Shie Benaderet — 8th Grade Social Studies, Alderwood Middle School
This is a companion to the main class site and the American Yawp Jr. project. All resources are free, open source, and built for real classrooms — especially for students who read below grade level, have IEPs, or are multilingual learners.