Understanding the Iraq Conflict

This page contains resources for students, teachers, and parents about the Iraq Conflict. As the situation develops more resources will be added.

AWESOME LIBRARY -- 76 resources are linked into this library site, including news sources and teacher lesson plans.

CNN STUDENT NEWS -- CNN provides this special student section with many detailed features not found on the regular CNN. "Showdown: Iraq" has everything from discussion points to video clips.

CNN STUDENT NEWS TEACHER RESOURCES -- Companion to the CNN Student News with lesson plans and special Classroom Editions.

TEACHERS FIRST RESOURCES -- A tremendous page of resources from Teachers First. Has items categorized for elementary, middle school, high school, and teachers/parents. Even has a news ticker!

READY.GOV -- From the office of Homeland Security, this site details how families and individuals can prepare for an emergency. 

TIME FOR KIDS -- TIME Magazine for Kids is particularly good for elementary and middle school students. The Iraq Conflict section has many solid resources: time lines, history, fact files, geography and more. The TEACHER SECTION has reproducibles and lesson plans.

CHILDREN'S FEARS OF WAR AND TERRORISM: HOW PARENTS CAN HELP -- An article now running on Time For Kids.

NEWSHOUR EXTRA -- From PBS, this is an addition to the nightly "Newshour with Jim Lehrer," with extra stories written for students. It's also meant as a world history and current events resource page for teachers with a pretty extensive selection of lesson plans.

WORLD NEWS NETWORK -- From here you can locate newspapers and Internet news sources from all over the world. Baghdad.com is one of the more interesting links.

TODAY'S FRONT PAGES -- This is a service of Newseum and shows 188 front pages from newspapers located in 27 countries. Interesting to see how headlines differ.

WAR IN IRAQ: TACKLING TOUGH QUESTIONS WITH KIDS -- Answers to some of the hardest questions. Excellent article.

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