Choices: Teaching With the News Negotiating Climate Change: Paris 2015

Lesson with multi-media resources introduces students to the disaster in Pakistan after the devestating floods in 2010 and encourages them to consider the impact of history, climate vulnerability, and current politics as they attempt to...

Current and relevant learning resource from Brown University in which students explore the changing relationship between the U.S. and Cuba, interpret political cartoons and monitor news media coverage of U.S.-Cuba relations over time....

Lesson designed to be completed over a course of multiple weeks. Young scholars will read news sources to become familiar with national and international policy issues. They will track news coverage of the presidential campaigns and form...

Learning module provides access to video, politcal cartoons, readings, and news sources from which to explore the ongoing political protests in the Ukraine and consider international responses to the crisis.

One-period lesson examines the issue of genocide using online handouts and news sources.

Online lesson plan explores the issue of foreign assistance and the world's response to the tsunami disaster in Asia using handouts and online news sources.

Learners use a video, handouts, and news sources to explore the crisis in Somalia and examine the factors exacerbating the famine.

Lesson with comprehensive multi-media materials in which students analyze the lessons of Iraq and consider implications for U.S. foreign policy and international response.

Third in a series of lessons on North Africa and the Middle East in which students survey the current political situation, consider the role of the international community and identify the political geography of the region. Multi-media...

Lesson with multimedia resources for students learning about political change in Egypt and the Middle East, second in the series. Lesson includes videos, handouts and primary source material from which students make their analysis in...