Teach This To Me: A Quick Crash Course on Any Topic for Teachers

The "I Have to Teach WHAT Tomorrow?" Moment

Every teacher has been there. You're assigned a new subject mid-year. Or your curriculum covers a topic you haven't thought about since college. Or a student asks a question that goes deeper than your preparation.

You could spend an hour reading Wikipedia articles and watching YouTube videos. Or you could get a clear, teacher-level explanation in 20 seconds.

What Teach This To Me Does

Teach This To Me is not a lesson plan generator. It doesn't produce objectives, activities, or assessments. It gives you — the teacher — a crash course on any topic.

Think of it as a knowledgeable colleague explaining something to you in the hallway between classes. Direct, clear, no unnecessary complexity, pitched at an adult level.

You type a topic. You get back:

• The core concept explained clearly
• Key vocabulary you need to know
• Common misconceptions students (and teachers) have
• The "why it matters" context that makes the topic interesting
• Connections to related concepts students might ask about

How It's Different from Google

Google gives you everything. Wikipedia gives you an encyclopedia entry. Khan Academy gives you a student-level explanation.

Teach This To Me gives you a teacher-level briefing. It assumes you're smart, you learn fast, and you need to understand this well enough to teach it confidently by tomorrow morning. No dumbing down, no unnecessary depth, no 45-minute video when you need a 3-minute read.

When Teachers Use This

• New subject assignment. You've always taught ELA and now you're covering a social studies unit on economics. You need to understand supply and demand well enough to field questions.
• Unfamiliar curriculum topics. Your 5th grade science curriculum covers tectonic plates. You haven't thought about plate tectonics since 10th grade.
• Student questions that go deep. A student asks why the sky is blue and you want to give a real answer, not "because of the atmosphere."
• Cross-curricular connections. You're teaching a history lesson and want to connect it to the science your students are learning. Quick crash course on the relevant science.
• Professional development prep. You're attending a PD on a new instructional strategy and want background knowledge before you walk in.

It's Not Cheating

Some teachers feel weird about admitting they don't know something. Here's the thing: nobody knows everything. Elementary teachers are expected to teach math, reading, writing, science, and social studies. That's five different disciplines. No one has deep expertise in all of them.

Getting a quick briefing on a topic before you teach it is exactly what good teachers do. This tool just makes it faster.

Try It

Teach This To Me is free to use — 15 generations per month. Next time you're staring at a topic in your curriculum and thinking "wait, how does this actually work?" — give it 20 seconds before you fall down a Wikipedia rabbit hole.