U.S. Teachers seize teachable moments in Egypt's revolution

From February 23rd issue. This particular article relates to what we are learning in our classes about cross-curriculum lesson plans. Using current events and learning different aspects of the situation is a great idea to get the students critically thinking about the world. Ms. Pellam said that her students who had stereotypes of this particular area now had a better understanding of this country and this area. "Having one discussion can completely change their frame of mind". Paul Beran from Harvards Middle Eastern Studies program said, "There's this notion that if students have studied Islam, they've studied the Middle East". Not so, There has to be in-depth discussions and the students have to make connections between the lives of the Egyptian peoples and with themselves. I think that for a social studies/history teacher it could be an awesome thing to have students from America become "Pen-Pals" with students from Egypt (if its possible due to language barriers) over the internet. They could gain a much better understand of each others' countries from each other.