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Choices Program, Brown University

Choices: Teaching With the News: Iraq After War: Securing the Peace

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Interactive lesson places students in the role of decision-makers as they explore divergent policy alternatives concerning how the post-war period in Iraq should be handled, who should be in charge, and what the goals should be.
Primary
University of Oklahoma

Univ. Of Oklahoma: The Paris Peace Treaty of 1783

For Students 9th - 10th
The complete text of the Treaty of Paris of 1783 with Britain accepting the independence of the United States and ending The Revolutionary War.
Handout
Other

Kids' Peace Station: From Hiroshima

For Students 9th - 10th
The atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima had lasting and far reaching effects on all mankind! Learn about a young girl, Sadako, and her paper cranes as well as the Kids Peace Movement and building of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum for...
Article
Other

Us Institute of Peace: Iraq in the Obama Administration

For Students 9th - 10th
The Institute outlines plans for how Obama should continue and eventually end the Iraq War in a peaceful manner. December, 2008
Website
PBS

Pbs Kids: It's My Life: When Friends Fight: Make Peace, Not War

For Students 3rd - 8th
Peek inside the highs and lows of adolescent friendships. Learn strategies to get through a fight with a friend, to overcome the urge to gossip and spread rumors, and to make or accept a sincere apology.
Unit Plan
CPALMS

Florida State University Cpalms: Florida Students: America and the Vietnam War

For Students 11th
America's involvement in the Vietnam War is examined in this tutorial, the anti-war movement, and the impact of the war. A PDF file of the tutorial is available.
Unit Plan
Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: World History: The Years Between the Wars (1919 1939)

For Students 9th - 10th
World History unit on the years between the two world wars, 1919-1939. Comprehensive multi-media resources, assignments, activities and assessment.
Website
BBC

Bbc: The Hundred Years War

For Students 9th - 10th
The Hundred Years' War was fought between 1337-1453 between England and France. The war had many brief pauses where a treaty led to a short-lived peace until one side broke the pact and war resumed. This in-depth analysis covers the...
Primary
Northwestern University

League of Nations Statistical and Disarmament Documents

For Students 9th - 10th
"Contains the full text of 260 League of Nations documents. The documents focus on three areas: the founding of the League, international statistics published by the League, and the League's work toward international disarmament."
Lesson Plan
Choices Program, Brown University

Choices: Teaching With the News: Iraq: The Challenge of Securing the Peace

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Interactive two-day lesson plan that engages students in consideration of divergent policy alternatives concerning how the situation in Iraq should be handled, who should be in charge, and what the goals should be.
Unit Plan
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Kindness, Empathy, and Resilience Collection

For Students 9th - 10th
This learning module includes several lessons that help promote kindness, empathy, and resilience among students.
Primary
US National Archives

Our Documents: A National Initiative on American History, Civics, and Service

For Students 9th - 10th
Our Documents is home to one hundred milestone documents that influenced that course of American history and American democracy. Includes full-page scans of each document, transcriptions, background information on their significance, and...
Activity
Other

Carnegie Council: The Voice for Ethics in International Policy

For Students 9th - 10th
The Carnegie Council's web site discussing the ethics of war and peace, global social justice, religion in politics, and other international policy issues. They state they are nonpartisan and independent on their site.
Website
Other

Historical Boys' Clothing: The American Civil War: Reconstruction

For Students 9th - 10th
Outlines the major programs of the Reconstruction period after the Civil War, and the discrimination that African Americans faced, such as from the Black Codes and the Ku Klux Klan. Also discusses the amendments made to the Constitution...
Article
Other

Newsela

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Newsela offers new current events articles daily in areas ranging from the arts to war and peace. Each article is available at five different reading levels; grade level and word count are displayed for...
Interactive
Council of Foreign Relations

Council on Foreign Relations: Nato: Keeping the Peace in Afghanistan

For Students 9th - 10th
A look at the necessary conditions to exist in order for NATO to be successfully able to keep the peace in Afghanistan.(October 17, 2003)
Website
Other

World Security Network

For Students 9th - 10th
Official website of the World Security Network which seeks to prevent wars and promote peace on many fronts. The left-hand menu provides information on current hot topics, ideas, and countries.
Website
American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise

Jewish Virtual Library: The 1967 Six Day War

For Students 9th - 10th
An archive of articles and documents relevant to the Six-Day War's causes, events, and results.
Website
US Holocaust Memorial Museum

U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: World War I

For Students 9th - 10th
Analyze how the conclusion of WWI led to an unstable peace which resulted in WWII. included on this site are short films, photographs, artifacts, and an extensive bibliography for further research.
Article
A&E Television

History.com: Steps Leading to the Fall of Saigon and the Final, Chaotic Airlifts

For Students 9th - 10th
The conflict in Vietnam ended in 1975 with the largest helicopter evacuation of its kind in history. What led to the fall of Saigon? Although the United States had withdrawn its combat forces from Vietnam after the signing of the Paris...
Website
Other

Neurotic Poets: Sylvia Plath

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a detailed biography on the often turbulent life and poetry of Sylvia Plath (1932-1963 CE). Included are links to full-texts of Plath's poems and images.
eBook
Other

The Last Days of Leo Tolstoy

For Students 9th - 10th
Full text of a biographical account by Vladimir Chertkov, Tolstoy's friend and assistant. Includes an index and and bibliography of Tolstoy's work.
Handout
Other

North Carolina Dept. Of Natural and Cultural Resources: French and Indian War

For Students 9th - 10th
Armed conflict left homes destroyed and casualties on all sides of the French and Indian war, which lasted from 1754 to 1763. Includes links to excellent resources for further information.
Website
American Chemical Society

The Pharmaceutical Century: The 1950s

For Students 9th - 10th
This extensive review of the advances in medical research and technology in the 1950s credits the Cold War and Cold War thinking with promoting scientific research and government funding of that research, including medical issues. Find...

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