In this structured discussion method, under the guidance of a facilitator, participants are encouraged to engage intellectually with challenging materials, gain insight about their own point of view and strive for a shared understanding of issues. In this conversation, students will focus their study on the "Syrian Refuge Crisis and U.S. Policy."

Using the Eurasian frontier as a case study, this lesson will introduce students to the importance of disease transmission and containment in history - and their connection to world trade, military movements, population movements, and government social policies.

In this lesson, students will understand what containment is and how and why it became a doctrine for the U.S. Students will understand the link between the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan and its importance in the Cold War.

This exhibition covers the themes of crime, prevention, and punishment during different time periods. There are 12 galleries altogether, each with a key question, a worksheet, and a number of case studies.

With this digital collection, students will examine documents that offer insight into the religious and social motivations and benefits for undertaking a crusade, as well as a glimpse into the more mundane administrative details required to make this transcontinental excursion to the Holy Land. They also suggest how the Crusades were both commemorated and criticized in literature and history for centuries after they had ended. Students will consider the following questions as they review the documents: 1. What were Western Christian religious beliefs, political relationships, and personal values during the Middle Ages? 2. How did the motives, organization, and effects of the Crusades change over time? 3. How have writers from the eleventh century on criticized the Crusaders’ goals and actions?

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.

This lesson investigates the concept of "the Other" in Conflict Resolution through the exploration of Cypriot history and geography, using analytical, literacy, and writing skills to unravel intolerance within a society.

The Cyrus Cylinder, a proclamation by the Persian king Cyrus the Great, gives rare historical insight into ancient Persian culture. These guides can be used to explore the Cyrus Cylinder and related objects in the Getty Villa's collection to learn about Persian culture and Persian interactions with the Greeks. Each guide contains information for teachers as well activities for students that can be carried out in the classroom. Resources include:

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.

In this lesson, students examine Thomas Robert Malthus's economic theory as related to population growth. Discussion questions are provided. In an associated activity, students debate whether or not there is a current overpopulation problem based on the Malthus principle.

In this lesson, students examine the Cold War roots of the recent debate over the construction of United States and Russian missile defense shields.

In this lesson, students read how the Roman Republic attempted to limit the power of its political leaders. A set of discussion questions is provided. In an associated activity, students discuss the merits of a constitutional amendment that applies the Roman concept of the short-term problem-solving dictator to contemporary America.

Students will analyze how a portrait reflects the events and trends of its time and then create a portrait of a public female figure today. Students will be able to research the effects of European expansionism and colonialism on different groups of people during the Age of Exploration; discuss the notion of "exoticism" as it relates to a 19th-century painting, the burgeoning of stereotypes, and modern-day stereotyping in the media; and create a portrait of a female public figure from a different culture.

In this lesson, students explore the development of Confucianism in China. A set of discussion questions is provided. In an associated activity, students will examine and discuss famous quotations from political philosophers from different eras.

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.

This inquiry leads students through an investigation of the impacts of the printing press by examining its utility in society, both as an instrument to preserve cultural products of the past and as an agent of change. Students create an evidence-based argument about whether the printing press promoted continuity or change after considering the ways in which it preserved existing systems of belief and thought, enabled the dissemination of information, and led to increased exploration and systemic change within European societies.

This inquiry leads students through an investigation of the fall of the Roman Empire.

In this lesson, students review Vietnam's history and how the splitting of the country in 1954 led to conflict between North and South Vietnam and how and why the United States became involved. A set of discussion questions is provided. In an associated activity, students will discuss and describe what they would want America to be like by the year 2050.

This inquiry leads students through an investigation of modernization and development in three African countries: Kenya, Botswana, and Algeria. Students focus on the characteristics of development in these countries and respond to the challenges that each country faces in the light of modernization. The inquiry is designed to be a series of research case studies in which students work in groups to research one of the three countries and write a one-page research summary on their assigned country.