Learning Goals
Students will be able to investigate terrorism case studies from the past 50 years using news articles, maps, survivor accounts, and data visuals to identify patterns in causes, methods, impacts, and responses.
Students will be able to analyze primary and secondary sources on terrorism for claims, evidence, perspective, and purpose to determine source reliability and relevance.
Students will be able to compare historical and contemporary terrorism cases across regions and cultures to explain similarities and differences in motives, targets, and consequences.
Students will be able to interpret data visuals, timelines, and maps related to terrorism to identify geographic and temporal patterns and support evidence-based claims.
Students will be able to evaluate how media framing, identity, and fear shape public responses to terrorism and influence collective memory.
Students will be able to justify evidence-based conclusions about how historical terrorism cases can inform prevention, public response, and community solidarity today.
Products
Terrorism Case Investigation Notebook
A research notebook documenting the student's investigative question, source notes, annotations, timeline entries, and personal analysis across multiple terrorism case studies. It must show how the student selected evidence, weighed reliability, and revised claims based on what the sources actually show.
Patterns, Perspectives, and Prevention Symposium Presentation and Brief
A team investigation report and presentation that synthesizes each member's case evidence into a shared claim about patterns, impacts, limitations, and prevention or solidarity responses. The product must explicitly address disagreement, anomalous findings, and the rationale behind the team's methodological choices.
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