This inquiry provides students with an opportunity to evaluate the relationship between the dramatic increase in European sugar consumption in the 18th and 19th centuries and the reliance on the labor of enslaved persons to produce sugar in the Western hemisphere. Students explore the environmental, economic, and social consequences of increased sugar production. Students work with featured sources focused on sugar production and the treatment of enslaved workers on sugar plantations.

This inquiry leads students through the political, social, geographic, and economic changes brought about by the Industrial Revolution in Great Britain between roughly the years of 1760 and 1840. Students consider the ways in which movement affects a person's geographic location and daily life as well as the structure of society. Students will develop an interpretation of the positive and negative influences of the Industrial Revolution and the extent to which these influences affected people in the past and people today.

This video explains how new trade networks caused an explosion in the trade of goods, but also in the exchange of ideas, religion, technology, and diseases.

In this lesson, students investigate the question: "What is a terrorist?" Students will learn about situations in Northern Ireland, Chechnya, Chiapas, South Africa and the Weatherman Underground in the United States. Students will explore a framework for analyzing political violence and terrorism, apply this framework to historical and contemporary case studies, and develop a working definition of terrorism.

Students will examine specific events, leaders, and government structures that would impact the ultimate choice of government Germany settled on in their Constitution. Students will complete research questions about the sources and write an explanatory essay laying out why the German government ultimately established the structure of government they have today.

In this lesson, students will read articles related to a misstatement of future glacier health in the Himalayas that was reported in the 2007 United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Assessment Report 4. The class will discuss the articles and ramifications of inaccuracies in scientific literature as well as the importance of validating sources as peer-reviewed. As this topic is complex, the students will need guidance in the form of an introduction to peer-reviewed literature, which is outlined here. Furthermore, the objective of this lesson is not to vilify the IPCC or any other well-intentioned group, but rather to elucidate the use of proper references and procedure when summarizing a contentious scientific issue with broad geopolitical implications.

This inquiry leads students through an investigation of the Ottoman Empire during the 16th century by examining the esteemed leader Suleiman the Magnificent. By investigating the compelling question, students are asked to evaluate the postiive and negative impacts Suleiman had on the region. Students create an argument supported by evidence as to the appropriateness of the label "magnificent."

This presentation is intended for use with the lesson plan "How and Why Did the Holocaust Occur?: Exploring Action and Inaction through the Survival Story of Esther Gutman Lederman." In this lesson, students will closely examine the various categories and actions (or inactions) of people during the Holocaust, including the perpetrators, collaborators, bystanders, resisters, rescuers, victims, and survivors. Students will explore each category in an attempt to gain an intricate understanding about how something as unfathomable as the Holocaust occurred. Students will then identify these categories of people while viewing the incredible story of Holocaust survivor, Esther Gutman Lederman. Esther spent 22 months hiding in a home owned by a Christian family in Poland. She is alive because this Christian family risked their own lives to save her and 4 other Jews. Students will culminate their exploration by focusing on the incredible actions of victims and survivors (such as Esther), resisters, and rescuers, as they create a medal of honor to bestow on a person or group of their choice.

In this lesson, students are introduced to human rights. Students will explore and learn why it is necessary to have an agree-upon framework for human rights recognition. Further, they will analyze the structure and format of the UDHR and identify those protected by its provisions.

In this lesson, students learn about the important role human rights and activism has played in the Olympics.

The Indian Ocean Trade network has been a conduit for goods and culture for thousands of years. This lesson will teach students key concepts of cultural diffusion, and diasporic communities.

In this lesson, students read about the Inquisition. A set of discussion questions is provided. In an associated activity, students consider how the U.S. Bill of Rights would have applied to the procedures of the Inquisition, and they identify which articles of the Bill of Rights would have been violated and why.

In this activity, students examine an interactive timeline of the events of World War I.

With this interactive resource, students explore what life was really like during the Middle Ages.

In this lesson, students will link what they already know about Aboriginal Australians to the new topic, identify basic and clear differences between modern society and Aboriginal living, and identify what they would like to learn more about Aboriginal Australians.

This lesson serves as an introduction to the European Union and many of the countries that are part of the European Union. Students will independently learn about the history, institutions, and policies of the European Union through a webquest. As a culminating activity, students will research an EU member country to create a travel brochure and jingle that will educate their classmates about the various EU member countries.

In this lesson, students will get an overview of the Iraq War through a montage from the PBS NewsHour and discuss views and knowledge of the Iraq War.

In this lesson, students review the history of government in Iraq and examine forces that are currently pushing Iraq toward or away from unity and democracy. A set of discussion questions is provided. In an associated activity, students will evaluate three scenarios and analyze whether or not they are likely to happen. Students will debate on the most likely future of Iraq.

In this lesson, students review the events that led to a major split in Islam between Shiite and Sunni believers. A set of discussion questions is provided. In an associated activity, students conduct research about Middle Eastern Muslim countries. Students will use a map to visually present their research.

This documentary series was originally aired on PBS. The first episode recounts the history of the religion of Islam. The second episode recounts early Islam's thirst for knowledge. The third episode covers the history of the expansionist Ottoman Empire and its ambitious sultans through the reign of Suleyman the Magnificent.