Exploring the 'Roller Coaster Ride' of the Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process
In lesson, students review their prior knowledge about the peace process in Israel and examine recent steps towards peace. They then research key figures, events and policies since Israel's statehood in 1948 and determine how they impacted the peace process, illustrating their effects as if the process were a roller coaster. Finally, students reflect on how the proposed road map for peace might change the path of the roller coaster they created.

Examining the Role of the United States in Democratic Transitions Around the World
In this lesson, students research case studies of U.S.-led regime changes around the world. They then examine the possible future democratization of Iraq through the historical lens of past experience.

Colombia's Drug Traffic
In this lesson, Students will be able to use maps to explain the connection between Colombia and other countries in regard to the drug trade and analyze reasons for the continuing drug trade between Colombia and the United States.

Exploring United States Interventions in the Middle East
In this lesson, students investigate U.S. foreign policy in Middle Eastern countries, and rank their level of support for American military and diplomatic actions.

Bringing Peace to the Balkans, Piece by Piece
A Bitter Struggle in a Land of Strife,' is a rich resource of articles, editorial pieces, photos, maps, and other features from The New York Times' coverage of Kosovo. This lesson plan features multiple suggestions for using this tremendous resource in your classroom.

Latitude, Longitude, and Mapmaking
This lesson requires students to review the concepts of latitude and longitude and to use these concepts to create maps of different countries on the computer. They’ll conclude by discussing the reasons why it’s important to understand latitude and longitude and by creating quizzes in which other students can locate “mystery” places that they map on the computer.
 

Maps
This site has more than 1,000 links to electronic map resources and 180 map collections. Perhaps this site is the most extensive grouping of maps on the Web.

Open Directory: Geography
The Open Directory Project on Geography contains 1,059 websites.  Categories include Cartography (89), Dictionaries (4), Education (100), Geographic Information Systems (632), Geomatics (883), Human Geography (63), Navigation (65), Organizations (21), Physical Geography (21), Place Names (56), Publications (13) and Regional Planning (378).

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