Students role play as advisors to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence to study all aspects or terrorism. They decide where the next terrorist attack come from and when it occur.

Learners identify the legal issues involved in the case of the detainees being held at Guantanamo Bay and surrounding the existence of the base itself. They explain the clash between civil liberties and national security during wartime.

Lesson plans will prompt students to review major acts of US terrorism and analyze their impact, examine three scenarios of possible homegrown terrorism, and write an essay expressing their views on how to manage terrorism in the context...