Internet Teaching Resources
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This page is designed to give teachers a guide to internet teaching resources that can be applied to teaching about the Middle East. All of the links will be to outside sources and therefore, the Outreach Center cannot be responsible for their content. The Outreach Center would like to thank Barbara Williams of Buena High School in Sierra Vista, Arizona for supplying some of the links listed below.
If you have a link that you believe would be helpful to other teachers, please email Outreach Coordinator Lisa Adeli at adeli@email.arizona.edu.
A comprehensive one-stop resource for teaching international and area studies and foreign languages in the precollegiate classroom.
A site with professional development opportunities, maps, lesson plans, activities and networking.
A vast site emcompassing all geographic areas of the globe, including the Middle East and North Africa. National Geographic supports geography education through high-quality lesson plans, current maps and map outlines, a teacher store and much more.
A wide variety of lesson plans, interactive modules and curriculum units relating to the Middle East. A great resource!
Established in 1981, the Middle East Outreach Council (MEOC) is a national nonprofit organization working to increase public knowledge about the peoples places, and cultures of the Middle East, including the Arab world, Israel, Iran, Turkey, and Afghanistan. MEOC’s target audience is non-specialists at the K-12 and college levels, although its services are also relevant to broader community needs.
Materials, links, and professional opportunities
An interactive module about what it is like to be a teenager in the Middle East.
A spectacular array of hyperlinked chronologies for the whole world. Particularly includes a chronology of Islam and of other religions, of the Middle East and Southwest Asia, of technology, art, music, literature and speculative thought.
A free Annenberg Media set of videos, activities, lesson plans and more that can supplement any study of the Middle East. An intriguing feature is that it sees world history as an integrated whole and links commonalities. Very appealing to students. Also has World History Traveler with activities.
Full of links, resources, activities, and current scholarship.
This is a phenomenal and ever growing list of newsletters, postings, discussion boards, multi-media materials, and much more. Targeted to particular areas of interest and scholarship.
A teachers' resource of up-to-date scholarship and classroom ready materials and research. Superb quality and variety.
Links to excellent and relevant materials. It has a particularly good section on Islam, as well as on areas and specific topics.
This has a huge variety of lessons and resources on all sorts of history, culture and language. Strongest Middle Eastern resources are those on the ancient world.
Links to over 1000 sites that have lesson plans, activities, games, quizzes and solid information. A product of the Center for Teaching History with Technology.
A Swiss site with links to many regional studies and history locations. Especially good for different viewpoints and links to journals, publications, etc.
A visual history of war, religion and government. Of particular interest are the maps chronicling the Iraq War.
An online archive of images from the Middle East concerning topics of religion, people, design and architecture, and historic events. Also includes a showcase of ancient cities of the Middle East.
Founded in 1991 by the Southern Poverty Law Center, Teaching Tolerance is dedicated to reducing prejudice, improving intergroup relations and supporting equitable school experiences for our nation's children. Great resources on teaching about Arab-American experiences in the classroom.
Biographies, lesson plans, and other Web resources on women in world history including Shagrat al-Durr, a Sultan of Eqypt and Melisende, a Queen of Jerusalem.
 Title VI National Resource Centers in Middle Eastern Studies
Title VI National Resource Centers in Middle Eastern Studies are funded by the Department of Education and charged with committing resources to Middle East outreach. Below is a listing of their respective Outreach Centers and a short, non-comprehensive listing of the online resources they offer.
Columbia University, Middle East Institute
9/11 Outreach Curriculum
Georgetown University, Center for Contemporary Arab Studies
Teaching modules and links for educators
Harvard University Center for Middle Eastern Studies
Curriculum kits, lesson plans and internet resources for teaching
New York University Hagop Kevorkian Institute
Teacher training information and "Andulusia: Virtual Classroom"
Ohio State University, Middle East Studies Center
Lesson plans, instructional materials and supplemental materials, and streaming video of outreach presentations
University of California, Berkeley, Center for Middle Eastern Studies
Links to cultural websites representing Middle Eastern countries and cultures
University of California, Los Angeles, Center for Near Eastern Studies
"Middle Eastern Americans on the Move" Exhibition
University of California, Santa Barbara, Center for Middle Eastern Studies
University of Chicago, Center for Middle Eastern Studies
Curriculum units "The Middle East After World War I: Drawing Boundaries and Dividing a Region" and "Understanding the Middle East Through Geography and Demography" and maintains a Middle East photograph archive
University of Michigan, Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies
A wide variety of online lesson plans and supplementary readings
University of Pennsylvania, Middle East Center
Teaching modules, useful links for educators, and "Marhaba: Welcome to the World of Arabic" a television program on the Arabic language with lesson plans
University of Utah, Middle East Center
Lesson plans, newsletter "Outreach Notes" archive, and podcasts
University of Texas at Austin Center for Middle Eastern Studies
Curriculum units on Cairo and Turkey and Cyprus [link]
University of Washington, Middle East Center
Yale University Council on Middle East Studies
Outreach project "Global Cultures: Middle East, Arabs, and the Islamic World" with powerpoint presentations on Islam, Islamic science, and geometry and the Islamic arts
The National Middle East Language Resource Center (NMELRC), the first Title VI Language Resource Center to focus solely on the languages of the Middle East. NMELRC sponsors annual week-long summer teacher training seminars for teachers of Middle Eastern Languages. |
