The Learning Center offers guided lessons, interactive tools and collaborative activities for learners from middle school to undergraduate university. Many lessons support US Common Core academic standards, and all use articles published in AramcoWorld.

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Ons Jabeur

Tunisia’s Ons Jabeur is one of very few people from Arab countries to reach the highest levels of professional tennis. In this lesson students explore what makes her a pioneer, what makes her success possible and what impact she has on others.
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Central Asian Women Truckers: Analyzing Gender Stereotypes

Most long-haul truck drivers are white males. But that is changing as women from Central Asia and other regions show they can haul a load as good as a man. In these lesson activities, meet women who are breaking stereotypes and making a good living doing so.

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Breaking the Shanidar Neanderthal Stereotype: Evidence Based Analysis

For over a century, archeologists believed Neanderthals were brutish, unintelligent and emotionless. They theorized Neanderthals were not directly related to modern-day humans. Recent archeological studies have dispelled many of these myths through DNA and archeological analysis. Lesson activities have students analyze these stereotypes and recent scientific evidence to the contrary.
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Developing Inquiry Questions Around the Study of Infectious Diseases

During 2020 the world needed some superheroes. Among all the frontline workers who helped the world get through the pandemic were epidemiologists who worked like crime detectives to sift through evidence and solve medical mysteries.

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Understanding Immigration and Assimilation: Making Connections from a Text

In the 1880s, thousands of Syrian/Lebanese immigrants came to the United States. Many settled in Texas. In the 1920s they discovered America’s national pastime—baseball—and formed teams and leagues. Lesson activities have students look at the immigrant experience in America and how baseball helped Syrian/Lebanese immigrants assimilate.
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A Woman in Saudi Arabia, 1937: Historical Analysis

In 1937 Geraldine Rendel, who was British, visited Saudi Arabia. Her travelog reveals what the Kingdom was like, and how she understood it. Lesson activities have students distinguish between stereotypes and respectful approaches to a different culture; compare past and present forms of transportation; and analyze photographs as primary sources.
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