Young scholars explore the opportunity to educate others. In this response to terrorism lesson, students explore 12 service learning opportunities that they may choose to implement in order to take positive action in response to terrorism.

Students show how constant irrigation, with repeated evaporation of water that left salts in the soil, eventually ruined much farming land in southern Mesopotamia. They discuss the idea that with the development of irrigation people...

Students explain how civil war impacts the common person. They analyze the effects of conflict on identity. They synthesize the impact of the civil war on the common person. They view a PowerPoint on Lebanese Conflict.

A large database of historical maps that can be searched by map type, time period (prehistory to 21st century), theme, and world location. Themes cover economics, war, disease, trade, migration, and much more.

Several historical maps showing steamship routes around 1900, ancient world maps, and shipping routes and lines in 1912, including those that passed through the Panama Canal.

Detailed geographical information on any country is available at this site. Within the World Map section, you can get facts and figures about each country's geography, demographics, government, political system, flags, historical and...

Although the video of the PBS offering of Jared Diamond's Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Guns, Germs, and Steel, is no longer available on line, the transcripts of all three episodes are. Diamond addresses the question of global inequality...

A collection of latitude and longitude mapping activities ranging from pin-pointing exact locations on the globe to researching the history behind this basic geography concept.

Geocaching is a unique online treasure hunt game. Players 'hide' a cache anywhere on the globe and other players must follow the clues to locate the cache. Great for getting practice using GPS. There is plenty of guidance to playing, as...

MIT offers an exhaustive collection of materials covering Latin American culture and politics from 1808 through the present and is accompanied with homework/exam possibilities. Issues covered in lecture notes and readings include Latin...

This collection of African studies resources provides users with a great deal of information about African culture, geography, history, and current issues.

[Free Registration/Login Required] This resource provides a collection of 31 terms related to vocabulary about geography.

Students in Mexico answer questions about their lives, comparing their experiences to those of American children. They talk about popular names, celebrations, food, geography, social and environmental issues, the economy, history,...

Learn about the movement of people from one place to another with this informative look at migration. Discover the push and pull factors, migration into Europe, and the main types of migration.

Visit this resource to briefly explore the geography and history, meet the wildlife, and understand the threats to the Great Lakes basin.

PBS has put together three war timelines covering the years from 1979 until present along with a timeline of Middle East history from 1916 to the present in an attempt to show how the key events from all of these areas are related. The...

A fascinating look at where humans came from. The interactive journey begins in Ethiopia over four million years ago with our ancestor, Ardipithecus ramidus. It continues at intervals along a timeline up to the present. The journey is...

This site is from PBS.org explaining the migration of people out of the plains during the dust bowl. Use this article to learn all about the reasons people left and where they went.

Sudanese geography, history, environment, people and society as well as the work that Oxfam is doing in Sudan is described in this informative page from the international aid agency that fights poverty globally.

Geography, history, environment, people and society in the United Kingdom, as well as the work that Oxfam is doing in the region are described here in the webpage of the international aid agency that fights poverty globally.