Educational tools: Lesson Plans
This lesson begins by asking students to compare and co …
Language of Presentation: EnglishMedia Format: Webpage
School Level: Middle/High School
Institution/Provider: PBS, WGBH Educational Foundation
In this 3 part lesson plan, students consider the limit …
Language of Presentation: EnglishMedia Format: Webpage
School Level: Middle/High School
Institution/Provider: PBS, WGBH Educational Foundation
In this lesson, students are given a hypothetical situa …
Language of Presentation: EnglishMedia Format: Webpage
School Level: Middle/High School
Institution/Provider: PBS, WGBH Educational Foundation
In this 4-5 day lesson plan, students take on the roles …
Language of Presentation: EnglishMedia Format: Webpage
School Level: Middle/High School
Institution/Provider: PBS, WGBH Educational Foundation
In this lesson, students learn the history of how the M …
Language of Presentation: EnglishMedia Format: Webpage
School Level: Middle/High School
Institution/Provider: PBS, WGBH Educational Foundation
This lesson is one of two in this particular series. In …
Language of Presentation: EnglishMedia Format: Webpage
School Level: Middle/High School
Institution/Provider: PBS, WGBH Educational Foundation
In this lesson plan, students will understand represent …
Language of Presentation: EnglishMedia Format: Webpage
School Level: Middle/High School
Institution/Provider: PBS, WGBH Educational Foundation
This unit includes 5 lessons about Muslim women and soc …
Language of Presentation: EnglishMedia Format: Downloadable File
School Level: Middle/High School
Institution/Provider: Portland State University
In this lesson plan, students unpack commonly held ster …
Language of Presentation: EnglishMedia Format: Webpage
School Level: Elementary, Middle/High School
Institution/Provider: TeachMideast
This two-part lesson plan introduces students to key vo …
Language of Presentation: EnglishMedia Format: Downloadable File
School Level: Middle/High School
Institution/Provider: Portland State University
In this lesson, students learn about the scientific and …
Language of Presentation: EnglishMedia Format: Webpage
School Level: Elementary, Middle/High School
Institution/Provider: PBS
In this lesson plan, students will use different maps t …
Language of Presentation: EnglishMedia Format: Webpage
School Level: Elementary, Middle/High School
Institution/Provider: PBS
In this lesson plan, students explore the daily lives o …
Language of Presentation: EnglishMedia Format: Webpage
School Level: Elementary, Middle/High School
Institution/Provider: PBS
In this lesson plan, students learn about the architect …
Language of Presentation: EnglishMedia Format: Webpage
School Level: Elementary, Middle/High School
Institution/Provider: PBS
In this lesson, students learn about famous pharaohs in …
Language of Presentation: EnglishMedia Format: Webpage
School Level: Elementary, Middle/High School
Institution/Provider: PBS
In this lesson, students learn about some of the queens …
Language of Presentation: EnglishMedia Format: Webpage
School Level: Elementary, Middle/High School
Institution/Provider: PBS
This lesson examines the concept of the afterlife in an …
Language of Presentation: EnglishMedia Format: Webpage
School Level: Elementary, Middle/High School
Institution/Provider: PBS
This lesson plan focuses on the use of hieroglyphics fo …
Language of Presentation: EnglishMedia Format: Webpage
School Level: Elementary, Middle/High School
Institution/Provider: PBS
This website includes a comprehensive collection of res …
Language of Presentation: EnglishMedia Format: Webpage
School Level: Elementary, Middle/High School
Institution/Provider: PBS
Cafe Baghdad, a script provided by this resource, tells …
Language of Presentation: EnglishMedia Format: Downloadable File
School Level: Middle/High School
Institution/Provider: Portland State University
Literature is a powerful tool to help students connect …
Language of Presentation: EnglishMedia Format: Webpage
School Level: Middle/High School
Institution/Provider: National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE)
This collection of lesson plans provides resources for …
Language of Presentation: EnglishMedia Format: Webpage
School Level: College/University, Middle/High School
Institution/Provider: Rethinking Schools
This lesson plan for intermediate-level students is des …
Language of Presentation: ArabicMedia Format: Downloadable File
School Level: College/University, Middle/High School
Institution/Provider: Sarah Standish
The Israeli-built Separation Wall between the West Bank …
Language of Presentation: EnglishMedia Format: Downloadable File
School Level: College/University, Middle/High School
Institution/Provider: Portland State University
The Persian film, Children of Heaven, tells the story o …
Language of Presentation: EnglishMedia Format: Downloadable File
School Level: Elementary, Middle/High School
Institution/Provider: Portland State University
The legacy of Umm Kulthum, the internationally famous E …
Language of Presentation: EnglishMedia Format: Downloadable File, Streaming Video, Webpage
School Level: Middle/High School
Institution/Provider: Al-Bustan Seeds of Culture
Following World War I, the Allied Powers divided the fo …
Language of Presentation: EnglishMedia Format: Downloadable File
School Level: Middle/High School
Institution/Provider:
TE Lawrence is famously known for his role as liaison t …
Language of Presentation: EnglishMedia Format: Webpage
School Level: Middle/High School
Institution/Provider: PBS
This five lesson unit based on Common Core State Standa …
Language of Presentation: EnglishMedia Format: Downloadable File
School Level: Middle/High School
Institution/Provider: Portland State University
This website hosts a collection of resources that prese …
Language of Presentation: EnglishMedia Format: Streaming Video, Webpage
School Level: Middle/High School
Institution/Provider: Primary Source
These multimedia resources about Islam will help studen …
Language of Presentation: EnglishMedia Format: Downloadable File, Streaming Video, Webpage
School Level: Middle/High School
Institution/Provider: Educational Broadcasting Corporation
In 2011, the Egyptian people staged 18 days of demonstr …
Language of Presentation: EnglishMedia Format: Downloadable File
School Level: College/University, Middle/High School
Institution/Provider: Portland State University
This website is a collection of detailed lesson plans w …
Language of Presentation: EnglishMedia Format: Webpage
School Level: College/University, Middle/High School
Institution/Provider: The Choices Program
This teaching resource offers a unique approach to worl …
Language of Presentation: EnglishMedia Format: Webpage
School Level: Middle/High School
Institution/Provider: Ali Vural Ak Center for Global Islamic Studies, George Mason University
As an increasing number of refugees in the Arab world s …
Language of Presentation: EnglishMedia Format: Downloadable File, Streaming Video
School Level: Middle/High School
Institution/Provider: Georgetown University
Arts and technology have been important elements of cul …
Language of Presentation: EnglishMedia Format: Downloadable File, Streaming Audio
School Level: Middle/High School
Institution/Provider: Teach-MENA
Political and social movements in the Middle East and N …
Language of Presentation: EnglishMedia Format: Downloadable File
School Level: Middle/High School
Institution/Provider: Teach-MENA
This unit is based on an extensive analysis of high sch …
Language of Presentation: EnglishMedia Format: Downloadable File
School Level: Middle/High School
Institution/Provider: Teach-MENA
This unit was developed based on an extensive analysis …
Language of Presentation: EnglishMedia Format: Downloadable File
School Level: Middle/High School
Institution/Provider: Teach-MENA
This curriculum was born out of an extensive analysis o …
Language of Presentation: EnglishMedia Format: Downloadable File, Webpage
School Level: Middle/High School
Institution/Provider: Teach-MENA
This is an extensive list of links related to teaching …
Language of Presentation: EnglishMedia Format: Downloadable File, Webpage
School Level: College/University, Middle/High School
Institution/Provider: University of Pennsylvania Middle East Center
This site presents the trailer of The Light in Her Eyes …
Language of Presentation: Arabic, EnglishMedia Format: DVD/Videotape, Image/Photo, Streaming Video, Webpage
School Level: College/University, Middle/High School
Institution/Provider: POV
“Marhaba! Teacher’s Toolkit” is a guide to help with th …
Language of Presentation: Arabic, EnglishMedia Format: Online Tools, Print Publication
School Level: Middle/High School
Institution/Provider: Cheng & Tsui
This lesson plan uses the Trials of Spring video series …
Language of Presentation: EnglishMedia Format: Downloadable File
School Level: College/University, Middle/High School
Institution/Provider: Peace is Loud
In this blog, you will find a great variety of resource …
Language of Presentation: Arabic, EnglishMedia Format: Webpage
School Level: College/University
Institution/Provider: Blogger
This page lists a small collection of units and lesson …
Language of Presentation: EnglishMedia Format: Webpage
School Level: Elementary, Middle/High School
Institution/Provider: University of Texas at Austin Center for Middle Eastern Studies
This site provides an extensive collection of teacher-p …
Language of Presentation: EnglishMedia Format: Webpage
School Level: College/University, Elementary, Middle/High School
Institution/Provider: University of Arizona Center for Middle Eastern Studies (CMES)
This is a series of lesson plans based around primary s …
Language of Presentation: EnglishMedia Format: Webpage
School Level: College/University, Middle/High School
Institution/Provider: Primary Source
This module unit focuses on the historical and contempo …
Language of Presentation: EnglishMedia Format: Downloadable File, Online Tools, Webpage
School Level: College/University, Elementary, Middle/High School
Institution/Provider: University of Texas at Austin Center for Middle Eastern Studies
This lesson plan from The Learning Network at the New Y …
Language of Presentation: EnglishMedia Format: Webpage
School Level: College/University, Middle/High School
Institution/Provider: New York Times (The Learning Network)