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PBS

Pbs News Hour Extra: Lesson Plan: Middle East and North Africa Geography

For Students 9th - 10th
Enhance student geography knowledge of the Middle East and North Africa with this two or three day lesson plan.
Unit Plan
CommonLit

Common Lit: A Quest for Change in the Middle East

For Students 11th - 12th
A learning module that begins Mike Kubic's article "A Quest for Change in the Middle East" accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online...
Assessment
Lizard Point Quizzes

Lizard Point: Middle East: Countries Quiz

For Students 9th - 10th
Test your geography knowledge by taking this interactive quiz over the countries of the Middle East.
Interactive
BBC

Bbc: Middle East: Syrian Journey: Choose Your Own Escape Route

For Students 6th - 8th
In this interactive, students take on the role of a Syrian refugee and must make decisions at each stage of their journey in their quest to reach a safe place to live. There are many dangers along the way and people who try to take...
Lesson Plan
John F. Kennedy Center

The Kennedy Center: Arts Edge: Aida and Its Relevance to the World Today

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson plan relates the opera Aida to current events in the Middle East for a music or art class. Contains links with information, assessment ideas, extensions and more.
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Other

Odyssey: Teacher Zone: Middle East: Iran Stay

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
This teaching unit is based upon a "teacher trek" to the area in 2000 and focuses on essential questions of community. Activities are offered to help students explore the religion and culture of this country. The plans are tied to...
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Other

Odyssey: Teacher Zone: Middle East: Turkey Stay

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
This teaching unit is based upon a "teacher trek" to the area in 2000 and focuses on essential questions on wealth and poverty. Activities are offered to help students explore the religion and culture of this country. Activities are...
Unit Plan
Choices Program, Brown University

Choices: The Future of the Middle East: Arab Spring and Death of Osama Bin Laden

For Students 9th - 10th
Learning with scholars online video, students consider the impact of Osama bin Laden's death on different groups of people. and explore the status and future of U.S. counterterrorism policy.
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Other

Odyssey: Teacher Zone: Middle East: Israel/palestinian Territories Stay

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
This teaching unit is based upon a "teacher trek" to the area in 2000 and focuses on essential questions on the nature of conflict. Activities are offered to help students explore the religion, holidays and culture of this region....
Lesson Plan
Choices Program, Brown University

Choices: Teaching With the News: After Mubarak

For Teachers 9th - 10th
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...
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BBC

Bbc: Week of 5 12 14: The Women in Iran Taking Off the Hijab

For Students 9th - 10th
Many women in the Middle East no longer want to wear the headscarf called a hijab. Read about the women in Iran who are defying a 35 year old law by going without a hijab.
Graphic
Middle East Policy Council

Mepc: Teach Mideast: Oman

For Students Pre-K - 1st
In an effort to educate on the Middle East and Islam, MEPC presents this overview of Oman.
Handout
Middle East Policy Council

Mepc: Teach Mideast: United Arab Emirates

For Students 9th - 10th
In an effort to educate students on the Middle East and Islam, MEPC offers this thorough resource on United Arab Emirates.
Handout
Middle East Policy Council

Mepc: Teach Mideast: Bahrain

For Students 9th - 10th
In an effort to educate on the Middle East and Islam, MEPC offers a thorough resource featuring Bahrain.
Handout
Middle East Policy Council

Mepc: Teach Mideast: Iran

For Students 9th - 10th
In an effort to educate on the Middle East and Islam, MEPC offers this thorough resource featuring Iran.
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Middle East Policy Council

Mepc: Teach Mideast: Israel

For Students 9th - 10th
In an effort to educate on the Middle East and Islam, MEPC offers this thorough resource featuring Israel.
Handout
Middle East Policy Council

Mepc: Teach Mideast: Morocco

For Students 9th - 10th
In an effort to educate students on the Middle East and Islam, MEPC offers this thorough resource featuring Morocco.
Handout
Middle East Policy Council

Mepc: Teach Mideast: Qatar

For Students 9th - 10th
In an effort to educate the western world on the Middle East and Islam, the MEPC presents this overview of Qatar.
Handout
Middle East Policy Council

Mepc: Teach Mideast: Yemen

For Students 9th - 10th
In an effort to educate students on the Middle East and Islam, MEPC offers this thorough resource on Yemen.
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Middle East Policy Council

Mepc: Teach Mideast: Afghanistan

For Students 9th - 10th
In an effort to educate on the Middle East and Islam, MEPC offers a thorough resource featuring Afghanistan.
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Middle East Policy Council

Mepc: Teach Mideast: Iraq

For Students 9th - 10th
In an effort to educate on the Middle East and Islam, MEPC offers this thorough resource featuring Iraq.
Lesson Plan
Choices Program, Brown University

Choices: Teaching With the News: Protests, Revolutions, and Democratic Change

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Third in a series of lessons on North Africa and the Middle East in which learners survey the current political situation, consider the role of the international community and identify the political geography of the region. Multi-media...
Handout
Middle East Policy Council

Mepc: Teach Mideast: Algeria

For Students 9th - 10th
In an effort to educate on the Middle East and Islam, MEPC offers this thorough resource featuring Algeria.
Handout
Countries and Their Cultures

Countries and Their Cultures: Ghorbat Kinship

For Students 9th - 10th
The term "Ghorbat" is applied to several non-food-producing, itinerant populations of fairly low status throughout the Middle East and even beyond, in parts of formerly Soviet Central Asia and the Balkans. These peripatetic populations...

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