Choices Curriculum Lessons that build Data Analysis Skills

Beneath the title is a description of one of the lessons in the curriculum unit.

From Global Environmental Problems: Implications for U.S. Policy
Understanding the Carbon Cycle

Through analysis of multiple charts and graphs students assess humanity’s impact on the global carbon cycle.

From China on the World Stage: Weighing the U.S. Response
Cross Strait-Relations

Using charts and graphs as well as other media, this lesson explores the U.S.-China-Taiwan relationship.

From Shifting Sands: Balancing U.S. Interests in the Middle East
The Partition of Palestine

Students tackle the difficult task of partitioning Palestine in 1947 using contemporaneous data.

Views From the Middle East

This lesson provides short background material on several prominent Middle Eastern leaders. In small groups, students role-play a summit in which the students — acting as the leaders — share their goals and concerns.

From U.S. Trade Policy: Competing in a Global Economy
Why Nations Trade

In this lesson students explore the incentives for trade and examine the possible economic and social consequences of trade. Playing different countries, groups of students trade imaginary bread and computers in a highly structured simulation.

From Dilemmas of Foreign Aid: Debating U.S. Priorities, Policies, and Practice
U.S. Aid Policy Today

Students analyze and interpret four graphs to assess the status of U.S. aid policy and compare it to other nations.

Joining the Debate on U.S. Policy

Students apply policy recommendations to three developing nations. Background information on the nations includes extensive statistics.

From The U.S. Role in a Changing World
Examining Global Opinion

This lesson presents students to evaluate U.S. foreign policy with multiple sets of data from the Pew Global Attitudes Project.

From A More Perfect Union: American Independence and the Constitution
Democratization in the United States

Using data and evidence, students analyze trends toward democratization and evaluate the underpinnings of American democracy.

From Between World Wars: FDR and the Age of Isolationism
The Great Depression

Photographs, a Robert Frost poem, one of FDR’s Fireside Chats, a series of graphs, and directed questions help students gain a broad understanding of the Great Depression and its effects.

From The Russian Revolution
Peasant Life

Through investigation of a painting, proverbs, statistics, and literature, students identify characteristics of peasant life in Russia.

From Weimar Germany and the Rise of Hitler
Hyperinflation, Prosperity, and Depression

Students use charts, graphs, poetry, and graphics, to define hyperinflation and evaluate the impact of the Great Depression on Germany.

 

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