The purpose of this lesson is to analyze how globalization is affecting the financial socialization of young people in Morocco and the broader middle east, and reflect on how notions of "tradition", "modern", "need", and "want" affect consumer behavior in varying cultural contexts.

The past is often neatly partitioned in time periods and eras with generalized names meant to characterize what life was like during that time. In this multi-day lesson, students question the validity of using ?Dark Ages? to describe Europe from the fall of the Roman Empire to the Renaissance. In the process, students examine a variety of primary and secondary sources highlighting different social, political, economic, cultural, and environmental facets of life in Europe during this period.

Using original documents from the National Archives, this exhibition provides a historical background to some of the rights often taken for granted today. Click through different time periods to browse the timeline of events and see images of original documents.

This is a diagnostic test that determines the students' skills at interpreting a timeline.

The mass movement of people is a phenomenon that has profound impact on both the losing and gaining areas as well as on the people involved. The purpose of this lesson is to acquaint students with several different diasporas throughout history and give them the opportunity to explore and analyze another diaspora and prepare a presentation on that topic.

Students will identify and explain factors that contributed to ethnic tensions and conflicts in Sri Lanka. They will watch a video clip related to the conflict in Sri Lanka and critically analyze texts to determine the characteristics of the author. Students will also use a Venn diagram to compare and contrast the war in Sri Lanka with another conflict previously studied.

In this Teaching with the News lesson students review an interactive timeline of events in Egypt over the past three years and identify core themes of recent Egyptian protest movements.

This resource contains a collection of documents to introduce students and teachers to the reign of Elizabeth I, including the marriage question and succession, her style of monarchy, religious and foreign policy, and her relationship with Mary, Queen of Scots.

This resource discusses the relationship between England and Spain in the late 1500s up to and through Spain's attempted attack on England.

This set of resources is designed to expand knowledge of early immigration, and reveals evidence about the names, origins, occupations, and households of people who chose to live and work in England in the era of the Hundred Years War, the Black Death, and the Wars of the Roses. Their nationalities ranged from other parts of the British Isles, including Scots, Irish, and Channel Islanders, to mainland Europeans from countries including Portugal, Sweden, Greece, and Iceland.

Students will examine the effect of the Syrian crisis on the lives of young people from that country, especially those who are refugees.

Students consider how ordinary citizens contributed to and experienced the fall of the Berlin Wall. They then develop scrapbooks depicting how people experienced the wall and use the books as symbolic bricks in building a classroom Berlin Wall.

In this lesson, students consider how ordinary citizens contributed to and experienced the fall of the Berlin Wall. They then develop scrapbooks depicting how people experienced the wall and use the books as symbolic bricks in building a classroom Berlin Wall.

The objective of this lesson is to understand the constellation of events - both macro and local - that enabled the sudden and peaceful reunification of the two post-World War II German states in 1989-90, to examine the symbolic significance of the fall of the Berlin Wall and German reunification for Germans as well as for Europeans, to focus on the immediate hopes and also fears felt by the diverse populations during 1989-90, and to explore the short- and long-term implications of the division of German and the reunification of two states with diverse political and economic systems.

This lesson discusses the attempted attack on England by Spain and its failure as a result of wind changes at sea.

This lesson examines the worst outbreak of plague in England since the Black Death in 1348 and how Londoners reacted to it during and after.

In this lesson, students will analyze two sets of primary sources related to the Haitian Revolution in order to understand how it influenced and was influenced by other world events of the period, specifically the French Revolution and the Louisiana Purchase.

This resource examines the life and rule of King Henry VIII 500 years later.

The decision to partition India into two countries as part of its independence from Britain in August 1947 had dramatic consequences. The creation of Pakistan as a Muslim state and newly independent India as a Hindu state set off waves of displacement, migration, and violence. In this lesson, students attempt to enter the mindset of leaders in 1947 and use primary sources to evaluate the Partition Plan.

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.