National Council for Geographic Education

From Maps to Mandates: Teaching the Arab-Israeli Conflict with Primary Sources
2026-10-17 10:05 - 10:45 (America/New_York) | Conference Room: Cullen
Summary
Explore the history and background of the Arab-Israeli conflict through primary source documents and teaching strategies that support critical analysis of texts. Major historical developments in the Arab-Israeli conflict will be discussed. Participants will develop content knowledge, experience student activities, and receive ready-to-use resources and links to digital resources with detailed lesson plans including primary source documents, maps, and all necessary student materials. Curricular resources emphasize informational texts with text-dependent and document-based questions to support close, analytic reading and evidence-based responses, new literacy strategies, and best practices in the use of technology in the classroom. Participants will be able to deliver rigorous, standards-based instruction, meeting state social studies content standards. High School World History and Global Politics teachers, and their colleagues who seek to enrich their general content knowledge, will benefit from this workshop.
Session Focus
Secondary/High School | Human and Cultural Geography | World/International
Conference Room
Cullen
Meet the Presenter
Casey Finch is an Educator for Institute for Curriculum Services and presents at conferences and facilitates professional learning for educators in the Northeastern region of the United States. Prior to joining ICS, Casey spent 15 years teaching Social Studies. He taught in both public and private secondary schools in NH, CO, and MA. Most recently, Casey worked for CFR Education developing teaching and learning materials about global civics. Casey holds a B.A in Political Science from the University of New Hampshire and an M.A. in Curriculum and Instruction from the University of Denver.
Casey facilitates professional learning for the following states: Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and DC.
