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Interactive lessons
1. Interactive Running Dictation Exercise
The Middle East Conflict to 1939 [interactive]
The Middle East Conflict to 1987 [interactive]
The Middle East Conflict to 2009 [interactive]
Designed to get the narrative across in an engaging way.
2. Chatshow Challenge: The Middle East Conflict [interactive]
An end-of-unit activity which tests sourcework skills as well as factual knowledge. Students take on the role of either a Palestinian or an Israeli and go "Head to Head" with an opponent to answer key questions from their own biased perspective. The computer produces two scores for each student for teachers to record in the markbook: factual knowledge and sourcework skills.
3. Google Earth Tours: Biased Interpretations of the Middle East Conflict [interactive]
One from a Palestinian perspective, one from an Israeli perspective, produced by students at the International School of Toulouse. Complete with lesson plan.

 
 

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Worksheets

    
1. Introduction / Mapping the Middle East A 30 minute, self contained worksheet lesson introducing students to the key themes and places involved. 105kb
2. The Human Impact Lesson designed to last 30 minutes plus a homework. Students consider how the conflict is affecting innocent civilians in the Middle East today and produce a campaign poster highlighting the key issues. 109kb
3. Cause and Course of the Conflict Online lesson in which students insert bias into a timeline account and then answered structured questions about it. 71kb
4. Cause and Course of the Conflict: Google Earth Tour: Follows on from the previous lesson.    
5. Classroom debate: Who is responsible for the conflict? Lesson plan and worksheets in which students are given the opportunity to consider the issue from several perspectives. 62kb
6. 5 possible outcomes Students look forward with this lesson to consider what the situation may be like in 25 years time and whether it appeals to them. 74kb
7. Islam Today Some particularly challenging questions are thrown out in this lesson - from my experience it is a great way of rounding off the unit by bringing students full circle to consider the impact of the September 11th attacks. 157kb

History weblinks for The Middle East

1. PeaceMaker Home :: PeaceMaker - Play the News. Solve the Puzzle.   
2. The Afghan Conflict - A Map of Possible Scenarios   
3. Q&A: The history behind Israel's Gaza strikes   
4. Pro-Israeli propaganda: Shockingly biased and ranting "academic" article to use in class   
5. History & Geography of Israel & Palestine. Also... Zionism, Refugees, PLO, Terrorism, Arab-Israeli Conflict  Utterly biased = pro-Israeli
6. Why Israel needs a security fence  Biased .swf
7. Israel's Story in Maps   
8. ISRAEL IS NOT A GUEST OF HONOUR! FREE PALESTINE! Israel's 60th Birthday   
9. The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict - Issues in a Nutshell   
10. The Middle East - Information - Maps   
11. Arab-Israeli conflict - Basic facts  Shockingly biased, a good example of how students should be careful not to mix up facts with opinions.
12. Link TV | Mosaic: World News From The Middle East   
13. Middle East - Link TV - RSS, Podcasts   
14. Timelines: Israel, the Gaza Strip, and Hamas   
15. Biased Israeli Statistics   
16. Animated Timeline of the Middle East Conflict  ...impartial
17. HISTORY: The State of Israel  Biased timeline (pro-Israeli)
18. Imperial History of the Middle East  Who has controlled the Middle East over the course of history? Pretty much everyone. Egyptians, Turks, Jews, Romans, Arabs, Persians, Europeans...the list goes on. Who will control the Middle East today? That is a much bigger question.
19. Palestine, Israel and the Arab-Israeli Conflict: A Primer - Table of COntents  Biased towards the Palestinians, although less immediately obviously than other sites
20. Maps of War - Maps   
21. BBC NEWS | Special Reports | Israel and the Palestinians   

 

  		 

 

 
 
 
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