This unit brings together multimedia resources describing the Civil War in England and revolution in France and the Americas. Multiple documents are available for examining the causes and effects of the French, American and Latin American revolutions.

This unit brings together multimedia resources describing the Industrial Revolution. Multiple documents are available for analysis of methods and goals of industrialization and the impact on human conditions.

In this lesson, students explore the history of the United Nations. Discussion questions are provided. In an associated activity, students role play a scenario where the UN Security Council will be accepting a new country as a member of the Security Council. Students conduct research to determine which country should become a member.

This resource looks at how the governments and people of England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales, and of England's French territories, interacted in politics, warfare, religion, trade, and everyday life.

This lesson examines Victorian prison policy through records, plans, and other original documents to provide a look at law and order and reformation in the 1800s.

In this lesson, students will generate questions about what has happened to the environment and the people of Fukushima as a result of the tsunami and flooding of the nuclear power plant. Students will use primary source video testimony and interviews to gather information from many perspectives, share information orally, and take notes on ideas expressed by others. Then, students will integrate information on Fukushima into an opinion paper.

This supplemental material is meant to be used in conjunction with the lesson: "Voices From Fukushima." It covers the main concepts of the lesson as well as provides a glossary.

In this lesson, students explore the past and present issues involved with America's involvement in Afghanistan. Discussion questions are provided. In an associated activity, students will role play advisers to a U.S. senator on the Foreign Relations Committee. The advisers will advise the senator on a policy option for Afghanistan.

By investigating the question of the French Revolution's success, students will need to make decisions about what the problems of the Revolution were, how to give weight to the events of three different periods of the Revolution, and what distance, if any, was between intentions and effects.

In this lesson, students consider how water is a finite natural resource whose quantity and quality must be responsibly preserved, protected, used, and reused.

In this lesson, students will be able to understand imperialism through the use of political cartoons and class discussion. Students will analyze political cartoons and quotes and decide which side each cartoon and quote sides with, then create their own political cartoon with an opposing quote which will allow them to present two different points of view on a particular topic.

In this lesson, students read personal accounts of Guatemalan women who weave, learning about the rich cultural history of this art form and how it has been retained despite the impositions of conquering cultures. Students will write a short report based on their learning.

In this lesson, students learn how the annual flooding of the Nile affected ancient Egypt civilization. A set of discussion questions is provided. In an associated activity, students will develop a strategy to deal with the Nile failure crisis in 2250 BC.

This inquiry leads students through an investigation of the Aztec Empire through the study of its capital city. Students will learn about the geographic characteristics of Tenochtitlan, the cultural siginificance of artifacts excavated from the Templo Mayor (Great Temple), the economic factors involved in sustaining the Aztec Empire, and ultimately the reasons for the empire's demise.

This inquiry leads students through an investigation of the efforts made by individuals, organizations, and institutions that eventually resulted in the end of apartheid in 1994. In investigating the work of Nelson Mandela, South African organizations, and international institutions, students create an illustrated timeline that showcases the breadth of the struggle to end apartheid and begin to evaluate the reasons that apartheid officially ended.

This inquiry provides students with an opportunity to evaluate a series of innovations by three complex civilizations - Maya, Aztec, and Inca. Students explore how complex societies and civilizations adapt to and modify their environment to meet the needs of their people.

In this activity, students will study maps of the medieval city of Chertsey, make comparisons, and discuss areas of continuity and change.

In this lesson, students read excerpts from Columbus's letters and journals, as well as recent considerations of his achievements. Students reflect on the motivations behind Columbus's explorations, his reactions to what he found and the consequences, intended and unintended, of his endeavor.

In this lesson, students review the elements of civil and criminal law that the Romans introduced and has provided the foundation for the legal systems of most nations in the Western world today. A set of discussion questions is provided. In an associated activity, students will practice writing international law for various topics.

In this lesson, students will be able to analyze and compare points of view regarding who or what editorial cartoonists are blaming (or not blaming) for gas prices.