Enter The Museum of Cat
The Textbook of the 21st Century
The mission of History Cat is simple: change the way students learn about history. We've set out to answer the age-old question that every teacher asks: "How can I motivate teens to read a textbook?" Now, we're not talking about skim reading or zombie reading, but actual reading. Like eyes following words, minds creating images, reading. For the past 12 years I've taught history in the Detroit Metro area. Even though I was, and still am, crazy passionate about education, I decided that it was time to fill the void and start my own online textbook. I saw a need to make the content that students were getting more engaging with a better story line. After all, if history doesn't tell a good story, what's the point? It's our goal that the days of the boring history textbook are...well, history.
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In WWII the Russians trained dogs to run under German tanks with bombs on their backs. However, the tanks the dogs were trained to run under were Russian so they ended up running under the Russian tanks and blowing them up instead.
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