In this lesson, students explore the importance of and flaws in weather prediction, and prepare their own weather report on a specific type of storm. In this lesson, students examine the cultural aspects of love, courtship, and marriage around the world. In this lesson, students explore the intersection between immigration and America's vision of itself. 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 identify some of Earth's most serious environmental problems and what causes them. They then look into legislation and regulations designed to address these problems, and write letters to a relevant environmental organization stating their views about the ways that the problems are being addressed.