They conduct research on the various political parties of Israel and create campaign slogans and posters based on their findings. The names of all the major Israeli political parties and brief descriptions can be found at the following web site. Teachers can choose which parties to assign to each group. In this lesson, students will consider the giving and receiving of aid from political rivals in the aftermath of natural disasters by learning about the earthquake in India and the international relief response it has induced. Students then learn about the face of slavery in different parts of the world and use the information to imagine what it would have been like to be a slave in a different time and place.
Students then interview one another and write one another's stories.
In this lesson, students research various international terrorist attacks, looking for the motivation of the perpetrators. After reading and analyzing an article on the training of extremist Islamic fighters in Afghanistan, students then discuss terrorism and ways the international community might respond to discourage future terrorist acts. In this lesson, students explore the problem of world hunger by reading about a recent United Nations report and then brainstorm ideas for programs to end the cycle of poverty and hunger worldwide. In this lesson, students first explore recent events in the Israeli-Palestinian peace process and the ways they affect prospects for peace. Students then work in groups to review events in the peace process since the signing of the Oslo Accords, and create a board game, chronicling positive and negative episodes, to play with friends and family.