Unit Plan
University of Chicago

University of Chicago Library: Teaching the Middle East: Foreign Eyes

For Students 9th - 10th
Two related learning modules consider Western perspectives on the Middle East, beginning with the Persian invasions of Greece (fifth century BC) and moving forward into the present time. Useful background on the history of wartime and...
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University of Chicago

University of Chicago Library: Teaching the Middle East: Resource for Educators

For Teachers 9th - 10th
An overview of the cultures, contributions, history, peoples, and geography of the Middle East developed specifically for educators. Learning modules, essays, maps, scholarly perspectives, resource and image banks, framing questions, and...
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University of Chicago

University of Chicago Library: Teaching the Middle East: Question of Identity

For Students 9th - 10th
Learning module considers questions of identity among populations of the Middle East, both ancient and modern, in terms of their ethnicities, language spoken, religious affiliation, and gender.
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Columbia University

Columbia University: Asia for Educators: East Asia in Geographic Perspective

For Students 9th - 10th
This teacher resource is devoted to teaching about the geographic history of East Asia. Includes standards information and links to related lesson plans. Also features a downloadable world map (PDF, requires Adobe Reader).
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University of Chicago

University of Chicago Library: Teaching the Middle East: Writing: Islamic Period

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Learning module considers the literature of the Middle East after the arrival of Islam. Discusses the development of the Koran and a variety of poetic forms.
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University of Chicago

University of Chicago Library: Teaching the Middle East: Geography

For Students 9th - 10th
Learning module on the physical geography of the Middle East considers the impact of the landscape and climate on both ancient and modern societies in the region.
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Middle East Policy Council

Middle East Policy Council: Teach Mideast

For Teachers 9th - 10th
TeachMideast, a comprehensive instructional portal home to a variety of resources on the Middle East and Islam, considers this region of the world from seven thematic perspectives: stereotypes, geography, history, language, religion,...
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University of Chicago

University of Chicago Library: Teaching the Middle East: Exporter of Religion

For Students 9th - 10th
Learning module considers the significance of the Middle East as a center of religious origins and beliefs. Essays and illustrative materials follow the development of the religious traditions of the region, from the polytheistic animism...
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University of Chicago

University of Chicago Library: Teaching the Middle East: Golden Age of Islam

For Students 9th - 10th
Learning module considers the language, literature, material culture, and architectural monuments of classical Islamic civilization (AD 610-1258).
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University of Chicago

University of Chicago Library: Teaching the Middle East: Writing: Before Islam

For Students 9th - 10th
Learning module considers the writing systems and literature of ancient Mesopotamia before the arrival of Christianity or Islam.
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University of Chicago

University of Chicago Library: Teaching the Middle East: Identity in Mesopotamia

For Students 9th - 10th
Learning module looks at the ancient peoples of Mesopotamia, including the Sumerians and Akkadians. Particular emphasis given to the status of women in the region, religious practices, and language.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Plot Your Course Navigation

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this unit, students learn the very basics of navigation, including the different kinds of navigation and their purpose. The concepts of relative and absolute location, latitude, longitude and cardinal directions are discussed, as well...
Handout
Middle East Policy Council

Mepc: Teach Mideast: Palestine

For Students 9th - 10th
In an effort to educate on the Middle East and Islam, the MEPC presents this overview of Palestine.
Handout
American Forum for Global Education

American Forum for Global Education: Spotlight on Muslim Identity [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
This downloadable booklet is a comprehensive teacher's guide you can use to help students' understand Muslims and their countries and cultures of origin. 100 pages include background information and teaching tips, activities and...
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Volunteer Voices

Volunteer Voices: Teaching Tennessee History Volume Viii [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The East Tennessee Historical Society (ETHS) presented its ninth Teachers History Institute on June 4-8, 2007. It was funded by Humanities Tennessee and Mrs. B.W. Grimes. Taking as its theme "Voices of Opportunity: Industrialization...
Lesson Plan
University of South Florida

No Strings Attached: Cardinal Directions in the Classroom

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
If you have access to Kidspiration or a similar program you can use this lesson plan to help teach the cardinal directions. Incorporate digital photography as an expansion idea or create more expansions of your own.
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University of Chicago

Teach the Middle East: The Neolithic Revolution

For Students 9th - 10th
In this article you will learn about the chronology of the Neolithic Revolution. Stages include the Paleolithic age, a time of nomadic hunter-gatherers roamed the globe and the Epipaleolithic age, when sedentary hunter-gatherers...
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Beacon Learning Center

Beacon Learning Center: Sunrise Sunset

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Reading a story about a trip taken by a girl and her dad, this interactive resource teaches kids about the motion of the sun during the day. Occasional questions probe their understanding of this process. They are asked to predict where...
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Choices Program, Brown University

The Choices Program: History and Current Events

For Students 9th - 10th
This page engages students in international issues. Curricular resources and instructional programs bring international public policy to life. Students engage in research and high-level thinking activities that revolve around what is in...
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Other

Galileo Educational Network: What Stories Do We Have to Tell?

For Students Pre-K - 1st
The teacher of this Grade 1/2 class won the 2006 Governor General's Award for Excellence in Teaching Canadian History for this project. Students explored the history of grain elevators in Alberta and connected their disappearance on the...
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Gcf and Lcm Quiz

For Teachers 6th Standards
Sixth graders show what they know about greatest common factor and east common multiple.
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Cosmo Learning

Cosmo Learning: Gauss's Law

For Students 9th - 10th
A collection of video lectures about Gauss's Law taught at East Los Angeles College The course teaches about the alternative method to calculate the electric field with explanations and examples. Site includes fourteen lectures that vary...
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Curated OER

University of Chicago Library: Teaching the Middle East: Sultan Ahmed Mosque

For Students 9th - 10th
Photograph of the Sultan Ahmed Mosque, in Istanbul.
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Cosmo Learning

Cosmo Learning: Moment of Inertia

For Students 9th - 10th
A collection of video lectures from a moment of inertia course taught at East Los Angeles College. The course teaches moment of inertia explaining the theory and giving examples with nine lectures. Lectures vary in length.