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• UT Center for Middle Eastern Studies Outreach Program - Learn more about the services provide by the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, including online lesson plans, lending libraries of curricular materials, speakers bureaux, and more!
• Hemispheres -- the International Area Studies Outreach Consortium at the University of Texas, encompassing Asia, Latin America, the Middle East, and Russia, Eastern Europe and Eurasia. Look into our programming for K-12 teachers and their students!

• K-12 Resources on the Iraq Crisis

Resources For Teachers: General Links

• BBC: Learning -- a meta-site of links to different resources on a wide variety of areas from the British Broadcasting Corporation.
• Discovery School -- Lesson plans, links, and resources related to programming on Discovery, TLC (The Learning Channel), Animal Planet, and The Travel Channel.
• EdHelper -- A somewhat overwhelming (and not terribly easy to navigate) megasite containing teacher-submitted lesson plans on every subject imaginable. Stick with it; there are some real jewels here.
• Edsitement -- Resources from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Not updated very often.
• Geography Resources -- a teacher-compiled list of links about geography for K-12 teachers and their students.
• History and Social Studies Resources -- A well designed teacher-compiled list of links about world history for K-12 teachers and their students.
• Middle East Outreach Council -- Affiliated with the Middle East Studies Association, MEOC is a nationwide network of information and resources on the Middle East. There are links to many outreach programs around the country.
• National Geographic Society
• National Geographic Map Machine
• PBS Teacher Source
• The Smithsonian Institution
• TENET - Texas Education Network - A rich source of links to professional organizations, Internet projects and curriculum infusion guides.
• Women In World History

Resources For Teachers and Students: Middle East-Related Topics

Resources by Country:
Older students and teachers may also wish to begin at the MENIC Home Page or search for resources dedicated to a specific country or region.

Afghanistan

• Afghanistan: a Land in Crisis -- interactive map and information from National Geographic. Includes downloadable lesson plans and maps.
• Afghanistan: 12 Years of Violence -- lesson plan for grades 9-12 from Discovery.com
• Faces of Afghanistan -- Photo Essay from National Geographic

Egypt

• Akhenaten: The Rebel Pharaoh and the Mystery of Tutankhamun -- a lesson plan for grades 5-8 from Discovery.com
• Alexander and Alexandria -- a lesson plan for grades 5-8 from Discovery.com
• Ancient Egypt -- a lesson plan for grades 6-8 from Discovery.com
• Ancient Egypt (for older students)
• At the Tomb of Tutankhamun -- from National Geographic online
• Cairo: Living Past, Living Future -- interactive lesson plans and activities on the history and culture of Cairo for K-12 classrooms. Developed by the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at UT-Austin and the Texas Council for the Humanities
• Cleopatra -- a lesson plan for grades 6-8 from Discovery.com
• Construction of the Pyramids
• Egypt and the Ancient Near East Youth Resources
• Egypt: Beyond the Pyramids -- Lesson plan designed to accompany a video program produced by The History Channel. The video can be borrowed through the Center for Middle Eastern Studies Outreach program.
• Egyptian Antiquities -- a lesson plan for grades 6-8 from Discovery.com
• Egyptian Mummies -- from the Smithsonian online
• Egyptian Pyramids -- from the Smithsonian online
• The Great Pyramid of Giza (for older students)
• Guardian's Egypt
• The Hidden History of Egypt -- a lesson plan for grades 6-8 from Discovery.com
• Hieroglyphs - Say What? - A Nova Online Program
• Little Horus,the first Egyptian web site for kids
• Mysteries of the Nile -- from PBS Online
• The Nile -- a lesson plan for grades 6-8 from Discovery.com
• Pyramids: The Inside Story - A Nova Online program
• Ramses the Great -- a lesson plan for grades 6-8 from Discovery.com
• Rosetta Stone
• Treasures of the Sunken City -- from PBS Online
• Unwrapping Mummies -- from National Geographic Xpeditions
• Women in Ancient Egypt
• Women and Gender in Ancient Egypt

Iraq (and Ancient Mesopotamia)

• Women in Ancient Mesopotamia

Israel

• Echoes From the Ancients -- from PBS Online
• Jerusalem -- A lesson plan for grades 6-8 from Discovery.com
• See Jerusalem as a Jew, a Christian, and a Muslim -- from National Geographic Xpeditions

Palestinian Authority

• Gaza -- from National Geographic online

Sudan

• Life on the Nile -- depicts life in a modern Nubian village. A project co-sponsored by the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at UT - Austin and the Texas Council for the Humanities.

Turkey

• Byzantium -- Lesson plan for grades 9-12 from Discovery.com. The video can be borrowed through the Center for Middle Eastern Studies Outreach program.
• The Mysteries of Çatalhöyük
• The Ottoman Empire -- lesson plan for grades 9-12 from Discovery.com

Multiple Countries and Regions:

• Alexander the Great -- lesson plan for grades 5-8 from Discovery.com
• The Ancient World
• Global Connections - an online resource to help teachers, students, and the general public learn more about events occurring in the Middle East. Designed for use in high school classrooms, Global Connections offers readings, 17 original lesson plans, links, a timeline of the past 100 years, interactive maps, and streaming video. Drawing from the extensive resources of PBS and NPR, "Global Connections" gives visitors a deeper understanding of the Middle East and its relationships with the U.S.
• In The Footsteps of Alexander the Great
• Odyssey Online -- A virtual journey to The Near East, Egypt, and other ancient Mediterranean cultures and civilizations.

Resources by Topic:
Older students and teachers may also wish to begin at the MENIC Home Page to search for resources devoted to a particular subject or topic.

Archaeology:

• The Lost City of Arabia - A Nova Online Program

Carpets:

• Symmetry and Pattern: The Art of Oriental Carpets - with educational resources and activities

Christianity:

• The Book of Exodus -- lesson plan for grades 9-12 from Discovery.com
• The Book of Genesis -- lesson plan for grades 9-12 from Discovery.com
• From Jesus to Christ: The First Christians
• Jesus and the Rise of Christianity -- lesson plan for grades 9-12 from Discovery.com
• Women in Ancient Christianity -- from PBS Online

Islam:

• Early Islam
• Islam -- lesson plan for grades 9-12 from Discovery.com
• The Road to Timbuktu -- Timbutku (now Tombouctou, in the Saharan country of Mali) was one of the great centers of Islamic learning in the Middle Ages. See what it's like today in this photo essay from National Geographic.
• What Went Wrong? WebQuest - Examines Islamic history from the "Golden Age" to the present, and discusses the reasons for the shift in power from the Middle East to Europe in the modern era.

Judaism:

• The Book of Exodus -- lesson plan for grades 9-12 from Discovery.com
• The Book of Genesis -- lesson plan for grades 9-12 from Discovery.com
• The J Site -- Jewish Education and Entertainment

Organizations with Catalogues of Educational Resources:
Teachers may find the Middle East Outreach Council's list of Resources Available for Teaching About the Middle East useful (requires Adobe Acrobat Reader 3.0 or higher, which may be downloaded free here).

• Americans for Middle East Understanding
• AMIDEAST
• Arab-American Anti-Discrimination Committee
• AWAIR - Arab World and Islamic Resources and School Services
• The Council for Islamic Education -- CIE develops materials for K-12 educators to use when teaching about Islam, the Muslim world, and related topics.
• Culture for Kids
• Intercultural Press
• Middle East Outreach Council
• Middle East Research and Information Project
• National Geographic Society
• National Peace Corps Association Global TeachNet
• World Eagle

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