Category: TEKS High School World History

  • Timeline: The Palestinian Nakba (Catastrophe) & Establishment of Israeli Apartheid

    This is an extensive timeline starting in the late 19th century. It is an important timeline to consider as part of other materials since it highlights the less promoted, yet very important, history of Zionism – the history left out of textbooks and the media. It includes important aspects such as the Arab Revolt (1936-9),…

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  • How Israel Was Created

    A 15 minute video about the history of the creation of Israel starting in the late 19th century. The video covers the First Jewish Congress and the vision of a Jewish state. It also includes the British Mandate period and the UN partition plan timeframe.

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  • The Israel-Palestine Conflict: a Brief, Simple History

    A summary of the history of Israel/Palestine starting in the late 19th century. The video covers the British Mandate period and then growing violence between Jewish militias and ultimately Israel, and the Palestinians. This includes the occupation and the resulting intifadas.

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  • A historical timeline of Israel’s brutality towards Palestinians

    This 10 minute video covers the violence against Palestinians and not the violence against Israelis and therefore would be useful to show with another video as context. Where it is especially strong is in going through the long and sustained history of violence against Palestinians that is mostly overlooked by the US media and teaching…

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  • Letting Maps Tell the Story

    This 29 minute TXCHR video starts with maps of the 13th century BCE, includes maps of the Ottoman Empire that ruled the region for 400 years, then WW I maps related to negotiations between the British and Arabs. Then the video shows maps of population and land ownership through the early 1940s. Maps of partition…

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  • Using Maps to Analyze U.S. Middle East Policy

    This TXCHR provides four maps from 1945 to 2020 maps to explore US foreign policy relative to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. This lesson plan invites students to explore U.S. involvement in the conflict through a map-based analysis. It compares historical and contemporary U.S. proposals, beginning with the 1947 UN Partition Plan and ending with the 2020…

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  • The Nakba

    This video explains the story of the Nakba with a testimonial. It lays out the history and facts of the last 100 years in Israel-Palestine. This is a useful video to present as an introduction for students or for educators to quickly get an understanding of the background to the current situation and to understand…

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  • Conflict in Israel-Palestine: Understanding History to Understand Today

    This TXCHR World History TEKS-focused, ready-to-go full lesson plan with student-facing documents includes primary sources, charts and graphs, maps, and opportunities for developing historical thinking skills to provide students with a comprehensive history of Israel-Palestine from the end of the 19th century, providing students with the background they need to gain an understanding of the…

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  • Rachel Corey’s Letter from Gaza

    Letters from a 23 year-old peace activists, Rachel Corrie, to her family who was killed in 2003 while trying to prevent the Israeli army from destroying homes in the Gaza Strip. Followed by questions for classroom discussion.https://www.zinnedproject.org/materials/rachel-corries-letters-and-questions/

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  • Teaching the Seeds of Violence in Palestine-Israel

    Teaching activity that covers the history of Palestine/Israel tracking the root causes of the current violence. https://www.zinnedproject.org/materials/teaching-the-seeds-of-violence-in-palestine-israel/https://www.zinnedproject.org/materials/teaching-the-seeds-of-violence-in-palestine-israel/

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