Explore the Past...Shape the Future

The Choices Program develops curricula on current and historical international issues. Course materials place special emphasis on the importance of educating students in their participatory role as citizens.

iBooks Textbooks

We now offer iBooks Textbooks that utilize the interactive features and video capabilities of the iPad and iPad mini.

Common Core

The Choices Program helps students develop the competencies now required in the Common Core. Our materials stress critical thinking, multiple perspectives and textual analysis.

Professional Development

Choices offers a range of professional development opportunities designed to support teachers as they implement our resources in their classrooms.

Scholars Online Videos

Videos help give students and teachers a clear, yet nuanced understanding of complex issues.

Teaching with the News

Teaching with the News provides free online lessons to connect the content of the classroom to the headlines in the news.

Teacher Corner

What is the best way to get started using the Choices Program? How do you know which units will work best for your course or students? See what the Choices Teaching Fellows are doing in their classroom.

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New and Notable

China
Curriculum

North Korea and the Nuclear Threat

Students utilize readings, resources, and simulations to explore the history of North Korea and understand the issues surrounding its most recent nuclear test.

drones
Teaching with the news

Debating U.S. Drone Policy

Students will analyze the issues and controversies surrounding the U.S. use of drones.

China
Curriculum

China on the World Stage: Weighing the U.S. Response

Using readings, documents, and simulations, students explore the history of U.S. relations with China.

China
iBooks Textbook

China on the World Stage: Weighing the U.S. Response

This book is available for download on your iPad or iPad mini with iBooks.

Civil Rights
New Curriculum

Freedom Now: The Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi

Students trace the history of the black freedom struggle from Reconstruction through the 1960s.

China
iBooks Textbook

Global Environmental Problems: Implications for U.S. Policy

This book is available for download on your iPad or iPad mini with iBooks.

Cuban Missile Crisis
Teaching with the News

On the Brink of Nuclear War: Leadership and the Cuban Missile Crisis

Students assess the roles of Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro in the crisis.

Syria
Teaching with the News

The Conflict in Syria

Students consider the challenges facing the international community as it weighs its response to the conflict in Syria.

Election Series
Teaching with the News

U.S. Policy in the Middle East: Analyzing Political Cartoons

Students explore current issues in the Middle East and their relation to U.S. policy.

911
Curriculum

Choices receives the Buchanan Award for U.S. in Afghanistan

The Buchanan Prize is awarded annually to recognize an outstanding curriculum publication on Asia designed for any educational level.

Iran
Teaching with the News

The United States and the Iranian Nuclear Program

In this lesson students analyze the issues that frame the current debate on U.S. policy towards Iran.

Costs of War
Teaching with the News

The Costs of War

In this lesson students explore the human, economic, social, and political costs of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Curriculum

The Middle East in Transition

Drawing on maps, cartoons, and primary sources, students examine the history of U.S. involvement in the Middle East from 1900 to the present.

Arab Spring
Teaching with the News

The Arab Spring: One Year On

In this lesson students explore the concept of revolutions, learn about various Arab Spring protest movements, and assess the accomplishments of the movements.