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What Is the World Health Organization?
What is the WHO? Learn how the UN agency in charge of international public health responds to crises that threaten global health coordination, such as the COVID-19 pandemic.
Climate Prompts: Fact or Fiction?
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Students will examine and compare their current understandings of climate change in this introductory activity to the topic.
How to Address the Economic Costs of Climate Change
Climate change–related weather events will destroy bridges, roads, homes, and even power plants—unless those structures become more resilient.
Hurricane in the Caribbean
How should the United States assist small island nations facing disasters? Explore this simulation.
Global Terrorism Trends
Explore terrorism trends through five data charts that help show the threat of terrorism around the world and how it has changed over time.
What Is Terrorism?
Learn how terrorists have sought to achieve their goals all over the world with this video on terrorism.
Terrorism and the Media
How do terrorists use the media? From Osama bin Laden to the Islamic State, learn how terrorists use internet and media coverage to shape their goals.
How a Single Phrase Defined the War on Terror
What is the 2001 AUMF and what does it have to do with 9/11? From the invasion of Afghanistan, to the Iraq War, and more, learn how the United States justified U.S. counterterrorism policy for over two decades.
The History of Terrorism and U.S. Counterterrorism Since 1945
From the creation of the CIA to the “War on Terror,” learn about the evolution of U.S. counterterrorism policies in this terrorism timeline.
Who Counts As a Terrorist?
What are the major types of terrorism? From foreign groups to domestic threats, learn how the U.S. government defines terrorism and its legal consequences.