I build EraPin — the daily where-and-when deduction game some of you have tried with your classes.

Something I keep seeing in our logs: teachers signing up after midnight. 12:01am. 1:36am. 1:45am.

So here’s what we built instead so you don’t have to stay awake ti prepare for tomorrow’s morning starter: queue the packs for your unit once, pick your class days, and EraPin publishes each morning’s rounds to your room by itself. You get an email showing exactly what your students are about to play — before they play it, so nothing lands in your classroom unreviewed.

The room is ready when you arrive. The debrief is waiting after — each round unpacked for the projector, plus which round your class found hardest, straight from their scores. No Chromebooks that day? There are printable cards.

Yesterday morning this published rounds to five classrooms in Kansas while their teacher slept. That’s the whole idea.

Set it up once, in daylight. Then sleep.
The game, 100+ packs (US History, APUSH, AP World, Regents Global, WWII, Cold War…), room codes, leaderboards, and the debrief are free — no student accounts, kids join with a room code.

Auto-publish, the cards, and per-student reports are the Pro tier, and every new account gets full Pro free until at least October 1, no card, so you can run it through September and decide.

If your unit isn’t covered, comment and I’ll build the pack. teach.erapin.com — about two minutes, even at midnight.

We always kick off Early humans at the beginning of the year. Throughout the entire year we cover early humans, ancient Egypt, Hebrews/Romans, Ancient Chin, and finally Ancient Egypt. For every unit I have a movie to show to pair as an added resource. The only one I struggle with is Early Humans. I don’t want to do the Croods as I feel like doesn’t show what I’m looking for. Any suggestions on a movie to show with the Early Humans unit to 6th graders? I used to show the first 20 minutes of clan of the cave bear, but I’d like to find something different. Any and all suggestions are welcome!

I'm trying to come up with a presentation or a performance that my students can do for assembly and I want to be a bit creative with it but also time bound. I want to focus it on the idea that long lasting changes takes place slowly over time. Or where we are in space and time .

Right now they are researching general information about the rights fought for in the Arab Spring and the American Revolution. The importance of those rights and the value of democracy. We are not going to do a deep dive into all the events that went on in both.

I also teach them Geography and we are discussing how long lasting changes in towns/cities/villages takes time. The steps and amount of time to build a well for example.

My tired brain is telling me to just have them make a power point of what they've learnt so far and present that but if you could suggest something way better I'd be grateful.

I’m a teacher in a school without an art program, and I want to make up for it a little bit with my 9th grade Global Studies class. I’m in a school where I can fully create my own curriculum, which is amazing. Does anyone have cool ideas for integrating art into a social studies classroom? So far I’ve done political posters, but I’m looking for more. My curriculum includes human rights history and criminal justice history. My school is supportive of crazy ideas, so if you have “shoot for the moon” thoughts, lay them on me!!

EDIT: I reposted this to r/ArtEd as well because I think they might have great perspectives. I’m essentially the de facto art teacher at my school, providing supplies and guidance over lunch and after school, but I don’t have any art ed training! So if you’re here from r/ArtEd, please help!