Kaulbach's Modern World

Every year my husband and I try to bike sections of the bike trail system of Canada. 5,000 km of safe passage for bikes on gravel or paved roadways known in Quebec as La Route Verte. This year my 9 year old daughter wanted to ride this with friends. So we called it bike camp and invited 4 others to join us. In return, the other parents took our daughter on week long adventures. It was a great swap and it gave us an adventure as well. This is our 2nd year taking kids so we thought we would ramp up the mileage.  With another parent, a mini van and our Subaru, we had the opportunity to piece together the best and easiest sections of trail separate from regular traffic. It was a success! 4 days, 2 nights camping and one hotel, we looped from Waterloo to Noyan and crossed the Border in Alburg, Vermont. You can see that they finished happy. Their big request was to plant one foot in Canada and one foot in the US. And this granite post on the US side of the Border allows for this. ...

The infographics world is chock full of visuals that appeal to the teaching and understanding of world history.  From student submissions I can assess at a glance, their ability to contextualize comparisons between historic events or to identify patterns of change & continuity. Why is this important? Students of Advanced Placement World History (#WHAP) know that determining the meaning of words and phrases to present analysis is the difference between zero credit and that perfect score recognized by colleges worldwide. Misinterpretation of what is asked in the standard essay questions can translate into student writing at length to develop the wrong answer. 2011 AP Comparative Essay Question Analyze similarities and differences in the rise of TWO of the following empires. (Aztec, Mongol & or West African states) Hundreds of students made comparisons between Aztecs an Mongols but failed to explain how each empire  rose  to power thereby losing the t...