I'm a parent who built a small project on weekends called World Explorer. Posting here because honestly the people who'd know if it's actually useful in a classroom are the ones standing in front of one.
The premise: an interactive globe where students click any country or civilization and read the story behind it — timelines, key connections to other places, why empires rose and fell, what daily life looked like.
Where I think it might fit in a class:
- Warm-up / bell-ringer: project the globe, pick a country in the news, read the short context together
- Independent research: students pick a civilization and follow the connections graph (Rome ↔ Carthage, Tang ↔ Abbasid) for compare-and-contrast
- Sub-day filler: runs in any browser, no login or setup
Link if you want to poke at it: worldexplorer.dev (free, no logins, works on Chromebooks/phones/projectors)
What I'd genuinely love to know:
- What's actually useful here?
- What's missing that would stop you from showing it to students?
u/Fair_Programmer_4078 — 17 days ago