Current Issues

Current events

This Californian online magazin helps students understand today by putting current events in their appropriate historical context. Each report includes a background, a timeline of significant events, a map, & links to useful resources (USA 2018).

Five ways to bring the Constitution into the classroom using New York Times articles (2012-13)

Resources and lesson plans are designed to put current events in historical perspective (USA: Ohio State University and Miami University 2018).

This New York Times lesson provides strategies to help students gain that confidence so they can interpret even the most complex historical or current maps. The lesson also suggests ways for using current events maps as a tool to better understand both history and what’s going on in the world today (2016).

Numerous lesson plans put students in the role of decision makers at critical moments in history (USA: Brown University 2018). 

Germany’s international broadcaster - Deutscher Nachrichtensender in englischer Sprache (2020)

A real-time database with current estimates of real GDP growth for European countries (ETH Zürich 2023)

Die Materialien informieren Schülerinnen und Schüler zu folgenden Themen: History, Economics, Geography, Current Events and more (USA 2021).