Current Issues
Classroom activities to engage students in learning about and discussing issues in the news
Readings and activities to help students consider and debate the pros and cons.
Activities and readings to help students develop a minimal literacy on nuclear weapons issues and to give them a chance to discuss and consider their opinions on nuclear issues.
As controversy grows over military recruitment in high schools, we offer a set of rigorous, inquiry-oriented and student-friendly readings and activities that explore many aspects of the military, the draft, and the war:
These classroom activities encourage students to inquire into the values conflict over nuclear weapons.
One student reading describes the growing sectarian violence in Iraq; a second offers background on the historic split between Sunnis and Shiites.
"This lesson, including a student survey, a reading using original documents, and suggestions for discussion, invites students to consider what it means to be a patriot in the United States. - DBQ. Original documents, questions, and a Document-Based Question, plus suggestions for follow up."
This lesson, including a student survey, a reading using original documents, and suggestions for discussion, invites students to consider what it means to be a patriot in the United States.
Three lessons on recent events in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Most Americans are "energy illiterate." These lessons for high school students promote energy literacy, especially about oil. We begin with a student energy quiz, followed by three readings and suggested classroom activities.