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Curated OER

Teaching about Islam

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders explore the effects of globalization on the Global South. In this World History activity, 9th graders research a specific Islamic region.  Students create a presentation that explain the effects of globalization on their...
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Other

Metrocosm: 7 Maps to Help Make Sense of the Middle East

For Students 9th - 10th
Keep up to date with the everchanging Middle East Region. The Middle East has been a tangled web of alliances since WWI. These maps attempt to make sense out of the this often confusing area. The 7 maps show the relationships among...
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Unit Plan
Choices Program, Brown University

Choices: u.s. Policy in the Middle East: Analyzing Political Cartoons

For Students 9th - 10th
Multi-media resources including video, PowerPoint, articles and maps from which students explore current issues in the Middle East and their relation to U.S. policy and interpret political cartoons on Middle East politics.
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Article
NPR: National Public Radio

Npr: Middle East

For Students 9th - 10th
A page that is updated daily with NPR news and special reports from across the Middle East. Also provides direct access to several thousand archived NPR stories on the Middle East with audio and transcripts available.
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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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Online Course
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mit: Open Course Ware: The Middle East in the 20th Century

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Examining the history of the Middle East from the Ottoman Empire through to the present. Enhance lessons with these resources.
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PBS

Wide Angle: Interactive Map: Middle East

For Students 9th - 10th
An interactive map that shows the countries of the Middle East in 2003. Gives information such as population, government, and history about each country.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: The Middle East During and After Wwi

For Students 9th - 10th
Test your knowledge of the Middle East during WWI with this five question self-correcting quiz from Khan Academy.
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Lesson Plan
Middle East Policy Council

Mepc: Teach Mideast: Comparing Maps of the Middle East

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A lesson plan to explore the Middle East region via maps and classroom discussion to better understand the Middle East. An Internet connection is needed to utilize the links provided.
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The British Museum

British Museum: Explore World Cultures: Islamic Middle East

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about Islamic art of the middle east in this historical overview with accompanying image gallery of relevant object images from the British Museum collection.
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Website
United Nations

United Nations: The Middle East

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the official page for The Middle East from the United Nations. You will find up-to-the-minute reports by the Secretary-General, Security Council, General Assembly as well as news on relief efforts and links to more UN information...
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Website
Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center

Yad Vashem: North Africa and the Middle East

For Students 9th - 10th
With the establishment of the Vichy regime in France and pro-Hitler leaders in Iraq, the persecution of Jews fanned out to North Africa and the Middle East. Peruse background information and examine primary sources such as photos,...
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Primary
Yale University

Avalon Project: Middle East 1916 2001: A Documentary

For Students 9th - 10th
Yale Law School does an excellent job in presenting historical documents centered around the Middle East crisis beginning with the 1916 Sykes-Picot Agreement up to present day UN resolutions. This site provides a complete timeline that...
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Website
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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Unit Plan
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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Primary
Internet History Sourcebooks Project

Fordham University: Modern History Sourcebook: Eisenhower Doctrine on the Middle East

For Students 9th - 10th
Contains the actual text to the Eisenhower Doctrine on the Middle East, Eisenhower's speech to Congress on January 5, 1957.
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Website
Mount Holyoke College

Mount Holyoke College: American Presence in Middle East

For Students 9th - 10th
An extensive description of the U.S. presence in the Middle East. Focuses on oil as the cause of America being in this region.
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Website
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.
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Unit Plan
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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Brown University

John Carter Brown Library: Islamic Encounters: America, Europe, Middle East

For Students 9th - 10th
An exhibition highlighting the contacts and exchanges of knowledge that took place from the 1400s to the 1800s, between the Islamic world and America, Europe, and the Middle East.
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Countries and Their Cultures

Countries and Their Cultures: Introduction to the Middle East

For Students 9th - 10th
The term "Middle East" is generally recognized today to refer to a region that stretches from the Atlantic Ocean in the west to Afghanistan in the east. It encompasses the countries of Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Israel,...
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Online Course
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mit: Open Course Ware: Seminar on Politics and Conflict in the Middle East

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Exploring the history and changes in the politics and economics in the Middle East, rely on some of these resources to enhance lessons.
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Handout
Countries and Their Cultures

Countries and Their Cultures: Jews of the Middle East

For Students 9th - 10th
Prior to 1948, Jewish communties were found discontinuously in an area stretching from southwest Asia across North Africa, from Tajikistan and Uzbekistan in the north to Yemen in the south, and from Afghanistan in the east to Morocco in...
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Other

Owl & Mouse Educational Software: Middle East Map Puzzle

For Students 9th - 10th
This site has a puzzle of the countries of the Middle East that you can play online.

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