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" Arab spring: an interactive timeline of Middle East protests"

"Scholastic's Election 2012 is a nice set of resources through which elementary and middle school students can learn about various aspects of the 2012 Presidential Election. Election 2012 prominently features student-friendly artcles about the Republican primaries and caucuses. ."

Readers may browse the site according to region, including information on Africa, Americas, Asia, Europe/Ex-USSR, and Middle East/North Africa. Selecting any of these tabs triggers a drop down menu of respective countries. Selecting any of the countries navigates to an archive of all the articles published about that country written in the past decade or so. Other important features of the site include a World Press Freedom Index, which evaluates each nation on a number of variables to assign them a yearly ranking.

"The Zinn Education Project promotes and supports the use of Howard Zinn's best-selling book A People's History of the United States and other materials for teaching a people's history in middle and high school classrooms across the country. The Zinn Education Project is coordinated by two non-profit organizations, Rethinking Schools and Teaching for Change. Its goal is to introduce students to a more accurate, complex, and engaging understanding of United States history than is found in traditional textbooks and curricula. The empowering potential of studying U.S. history is often lost in a textbook-driven trivial pursuit of names and dates. Zinn's A People's History of the United States emphasizes the role of working people, women, people of color, and organized social movements in shaping history. Students learn that history is made not by a few heroic individuals, but instead by people's choices and actions, thereby also learning that their own choices and actions matter."

Primary sources, videos, timeline creators, animation creators. Don't be put off by the "elementary" look of the site. There is lots for middle and high school levels.

Following the fall of presidents of Egypt and Tunisia

Interesting comparison to today's protests in the Middle East

Interesting comparison

"Global Voices is an international community of bloggers who report on blogs and citizen media from around the world"

"Global Voices is an international community of bloggers who report on blogs and citizen media from around the world."

Another resources to access as events in the Middle East unfold

Scott I totally agree with you. What has been going on in these countries is nothing short of inspiring.