Welcome to the EGP Media & Press archive. Our mission is to bridge the gap between rigorous academic inquiry and hands-on, practical application. Whether in the classroom, on the homestead, or around the dinner table, we believe that education should be an immersive experience that challenges students to analyze the past, engage with the present, and build a sustainable future.
Our resources are rooted in Project-Based Learning (PBL) and the Living Literature approach, designed to transform passive learners into active investigators.
Why the Most Important Moments in History Are Defined by Friction, Not Victory, and How to Teach Students to See It The night my daughter didn’t go to her extracurricular meeting and when we dropped off some of her siblings, she cried a little. In that moment she grieved something that was real and mattered,…
Here is something worth sitting with before you teach your next history lesson. Americans pride themselves on being straight-talkers that are practical and grounded. A pull-yourself-up-by-your-bootstraps, tell-it-like-it-is kind of people. We celebrate the self-made individual, the honest laborer, the person who does not need a gilded story to feel good about themselves. We have built…
We grew a small patch of wheat for the first time in 2022. Everyone was a part of planting and watching it grow. My oldest two used a scythe to cut it. The rest of us worked through threshing together, brainstorming as we went because our first attempts were far more labor-intensive than we expected….
Someone once told me they loved the idea of educational cookbooks but were intimidated by actually using them. The cooking felt overwhelming. I get it completely. Not every learning environment has a kitchen. Even if you homeschool with a full kitchen available, you might not want flour on every surface on a Tuesday morning. And…
Picture this: You’re watching a movie scene where a king signs a treaty in his grand hall. The camera focuses on his face, his ornate quill, the gilded document. The soundtrack swells. This is history being made. But what if you could grab that camera and swivel it 90 degrees? Suddenly you’d see the scribe…
Picture this: Twenty-five tenth-graders walk into my World History classroom to find an ordinary object sitting on each desk. A soda can. Before anyone could crack it open, I stopped them: “Imagine you’ve never seen this before. You’re on an archaeological dig 500 years in the future, and you just unearthed this mysterious cylinder. What…
A free mini-lesson that helps K-12 students understand that history isn’t just WHAT happened, but WHO got to tell the story Here’s a question that should make us uncomfortable: When we teach the American Revolution, whose version of events are we teaching? Think about it. After the Revolution, who wrote the textbooks? Who compiled the…
Ask a student to describe a historical figure like Thomas Jefferson or Marcus Aurelius, and you’ll typically get one of two extremes: Both of these approaches are educational dead ends. The first ignores the reality of human nature; the second ignores the reality of historical context. Neither builds critical thinkers. As we move toward the…
Are you looking for a meaningful way to bring Eleanor H. Porter’s timeless classic “Pollyanna” to life in your classroom or homeschool? We picked up the novel as a unit study to have at least one book for each of the New England states, but the book turned into so much more for us. Coupled…
While I have had friends mention that their first introduction to “The Wild Robot” by Peter Brown was through the movie. But I have often encouraged them to read the book! It offers a perfect balance of accessibility and depth for middle school readers even more than it offers entertainment for younger listeners. This seemingly…
Looking for an engaging way to teach children aged 10-18 about pocket knife safety? My children are all a part of local scouting organizations ; therefore, we have taken an active role in helping lead these troops. Most recently, we planned a knife safety training seminar to earn a carry card to have a knife…
Picture this: It’s 9pm and I’m loading my kids into the van for a surprise trip to see The Wild Robot movie on opening night. Why? Because they’d devoured the book three times and I wanted to create a unforgettable learning moment they’d never forget. Despite nearing midnight that night, all of my children were…