"Why didn't they just, like, take the Eagles into Mordor?"
"Joe, it wouldn't work. Wouldn't work. Sauron has the NAZGUL."
"But wait wait wait - they couldn't just fly around them?"
"Have you seen the Nazgul, Joe? Huge. They were unbelievable. You know, too, if an Eagle had the One Ring - bam. Now you have a Dark Lord Eagle. Complete and total disaster."
When I was in high school, every single Halloween, there was a group of white kids who dressed up as the Bush administration and a group of brown kids who dressed up as Al qaeda. They all scrimmaged during 4th period lunch. People nowadays lack that sort of Halloween spirit
I'm not much of a video game guy anymore, but you could replace an entire history class with students playing Europa Universalis IV on their laptops for the semester, with the teacher guiding them along.
They'd probably learn more about history that way than through regular lectures