Current Issues
Classroom activities to engage students in learning about and discussing issues in the news
Questions and information to help students consider the conflict.
Readings (including an abridged dictionary of the war) and activities to encourage critical thinking.
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.
Help your students prepare for the NY Regents Exam with these document-based question exercises modeled closely on the format used in the exam.
Help your students prepare for the NY Regents Exam with these document-based question exercises modeled closely on the format used in the exam.
Help your students prepare for the NY Regents Exam with these document-based question exercises modeled closely on the format used in the exam.
Readings and activities on the history of the U.S.-North Korea relationship & the current tension over nuclear weapons.
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: