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1101. Exploring Africa, 6: African Geography

Examines location and spatial relations, places and regions, physical systems, patterns of movement and human-environmental interaction

1102. Exploring Africa, 5: Looking Back

Reviews and reinforces the first four modules on Africa's diversity, rich history and global connections

1103. Exploring Africa, 4: Examining Africa's History and Global Connections

Introduces the richness and diversity of African history, and Africa's global connections.

1104. Exploring Africa, 3: Examining Africa's Diversity

Online maps illustrate African geography, cultures, religions, livelihoods, and modes and routes of transportation.

1105. Exploring Africa, 2: Learning about Africa

Continues students’ introduction to Africa, exploring their current knowledge and establishing what they would like to learn.

1106. Exploring Africa, 1: Exploring the Diversity of Africa

Explores Africa's diversity, rich history and global connections, and stereotypes of the continent.

1107. Abrahamic Religions

This exercise is intended to communicate information about the three major monotheistic religions of the Middle East, Judaism, Christianity and Islam.

1108. Trigonometry and the Astrolabe

Basic trigonometry concepts

1109. Using “Arab Culture and the West” to Inform American History

Investigates immigration and cultural dissemination.

1110. Billionaires, Bombers, and Belly Dancers

Teacher in-service cultural sensitivity training

1111. Names and Arabic Calligraphy

A reading and creative writing exercise.

1112. Welcome to the House of Wisdom: Bait al-Hikmah

Transmission of scientific knowledge from Islam to the West.

1113. Transmission of Texts from Greek and Roman through Arabic

The transmission of the Greek and Roman classics of philosophical and scientific thought is in large part due to the Arabs who translated and salvaged these works from approximately 500 to 1300 CE.

1114. Banquet at the Alhambra

Place-out-of-time synthesis: students research and recreate a medieval debate over questions that remain relevant today.

1115. Turkey Unit

Touches on the history, culture and people of Turkey.

1116. The Garbage Villages of Mokattam

Unit about recycling in Cairo.

1117. Summer in the Middle East

A bibliography of sources related to the Middle East, North Africa, Islam and Arabs. Most of these works pertain to the twentieth century.

1118. Portraying the Arabs

Thinking critically about how Arabs are portrayed in mass media

1119. Muslims in Central Asia

A glimpse of Central Asia.

1120. Morocco: El Maghreb El Aksa

The history, people, language and literature of Morocco.

1121. Message Bearers: Coins and Islamic History

Uses coins to teach Islamic History.

1122. Levant Summit

Shebaa Farms is a resource-rich area located where the borders of Israel, Syria and Lebanon are in dispute. Students are given background information regarding the competing claims over this land by Hizbollah, Syria, Lebanon, Palestine and Israel. They then choose a side to represent and defend their arguments at a mock summit with other students.

1123. Israel: Diversity and Identity

Presents the various cultural, religious and ethnic identities of the population of Israel, including Ashkenazim, Mizrahim, Israeli Arabs and Druze. Discusses the history of Zionism, the creation of Israel and the ongoing political struggle between religious and secular Jews.

1124. Hyphenated Americans

Examines specific Arab-American communities, including those in Chicago and Boston, and the history of Arab-American migration from the Middle East to those cities. Primary sources are used to discuss the challenges of multicultural identity.

1125. Children's Books

Annotated bibliography of recommended books on topics related to the Middle East.

1126. Behind the Gulf Crisis

Provides a narrative of the political history leading up to the 1990 Gulf Crisis.

1127. Al-Hajj and the Islamic Calendar

Describes the rituals performed by Muslims during the annual Hajj to Mecca.

1128. Veiling in the Middle East

Brief history of veiling in the Middle East and the United States.

1129. Cairo: Living Past, Living Future

Multidisciplinary unit, historic and modern sections, case study approach, primary sources, stand-alone components