Curriculum Guides
Through a Florida-based educational publishing company, I have published my world history curriculum in two separate books, Modern World History and Western Civilization.

These guides represent curriculum I've taught in my college prep world history classes since 1998. They include class notes, PowerPoints, daily lesson plans, unit exams, worksheets, and pacing guides.

Holocaust Web Projects
The first project, the Children of the Holocaust WebQuest, has students extensively research the stages of the Holocaust and the write a fact-based story about a child. In 2004, a short video was produced about the project. Click here to video the Quicktime video (24 mb).

In the second project, the Holocaust Wiki Project, students create a family from an assigned country that was affected by the Holocaust. Next, they create a branching simulation (think choose your own adventure) and bring their families through the different stages of the Holocaust as they apply to their specific country. This project is done completely online and students use TikiWiki as a publishing tool. It was created as part of a special study I did with Bernie Dodge at SDSU and implements the Ant Farm wiki design pattern. This project was recently mentioned in School Library Journal.

Propaganda Ministry Video Project
Totalitarian governments and their use of propaganda are explored in this project. After learning about specific propaganda techniques, students become part of Totario's (a fictional totalitarian state) Propaganda Ministry. Students are expected to plan, shoot, and edit a digital video on a specific campaign that supports the country and its leader.

With the help of the other world history teachers at my school, I was able to expand this project to most of the sophomore class through three grants I received in 2003 and 2004. These grants allowed for the purchase of six video cameras and some auxillary supplies.

The materials are available in the both of the curriculum guides describe above and on the Propaganda Ministry Video Project web site.

Click here to view a complete list of my WebQuests, class web pages, and curriculum guides.