u/Bubbly_Ad7064

A history teacher in Illinois took on my offer to build her a custom pack sent me her unit materials for end-of-year teaching, and I built Maya, Aztec, and Inca packs from them overnight. She ran the Maya pack with 27 students yesterday and emailed back saying her 6th graders "LOVED" it (her caps).

The packs run on EraPin — a free classroom tool where students see archival photos, drop a pin on a world map, and guess the year. Five rounds, ~5 minutes per session. No student accounts, just a 4-character room code.

Maya pack: https://teach.erapin.com/packs/maya-civilization
Library: https://teach.erapin.com/packs

If you have an end-of-year topic not covered in the library,
send me your scope or unit notes and I'll build a pack. That's how the Maya one happened.

Hi everyone,

Last time I posted, the feedback was clear: "Topic packs (WW2, Civil Rights) are great, but I need content that actually fits my specific curriculum framework."

I've spent the last two weeks trying to bridge that gap. I tried using AI to auto-map my 1,450+ events into specific AP and Regents units, but I'm going to be honest: it failed. It was putting 2017 events into the Cold War 1945-1991 unit and modern terrorism into WWII packs.

Rather than ship a broken curriculum, I've decided to turn EraPin into a community-curated Social Studies network.

What is ready to use RIGHT NOW: If you need a bellringer for tomorrow morning, the Topic and Era Packs are pre-filled and vetted.

Topics: Cold War, Civil Rights, WWI, WWII, Industrial Revolution, French Revolution, Holocaust, Vietnam, etc.

Eras: Age of Revolutions, Medieval, Early Modern, Contemporary, Industrial Age, Cold War Era, World Wars Era.

The "Wiki" Experiment (Your help needed): I've built the Curriculum Scaffolds for APUSH (9 periods), AP World (9 units), and NY Regents (Units 10.1-10.10). I've kept these empty for now because I want them to be curated by actual teachers, not a buggy algorithm.

Verify: Use the AI sanity check to catch obvious location/date errors before publishing.

Edit: Fix any detail instantly. It saves for everyone in the network immediately.

Fill the Scaffolds: If you teach a specific unit, drop your must-teach events into that unit scaffold. Other teachers in your curriculum see what you've built.

I need your brutal feedback: I'm a solo dev building this on weekends with my own money. I need to know:

Would you actually take 60 seconds to Add your favorite events to a curriculum unit, or is an empty framework a dealbreaker?

Are the Topic Packs (Cold War, etc.) hitting the mark for your daily bellringers?

Anything broken or confusing? Better to find it now than later.

The Specs: 100% Free

No student logins (privacy-first)

Works on any device

teach.erapin.com

If you find a mistake while planning today, don't ignore it — fix it for all of us. I'm hanging out in the comments to answer anything.

P.S. Since I'm a solo dev, I'm tracking the first 100 teachers who sign up as 'Founding Members.' I'm not sure what the future holds, but I'll make sure the OGs are always taken care of if this ever grows into something bigger