Browse and adapt hundreds of standards-aligned lesson plans for K–12 classrooms. Lessons encourage students to make local connections to global news stories, while strengthening skills such as critical thinking, media literacy, and communication. Click here to send feedback to our team.
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This resource includes quotes, key terms/names/historical events, and guiding questions for each of the essays and creative works that compose The 1619 Project.
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Lesson Plans
Index and Flashcards for Terms and Historical Events
A partial listing of historical events and terms referenced in The 1619 Project essays and Quizlet flashcards to support teachers and students with curricular integration.
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A lesson plan for close reading and guided discussion of Nikole Hannah-Jones' essay, which provides the intellectual framework and introduction for The 1619 Project.
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Lesson Plans
Activities to Extend Student Engagement
Standards-aligned activities drawing from concepts in the essays, creative texts, photographs, and illustrations to engage students in creative and challenging ways.
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A lesson plan to guide analysis of a video introduction to Nikole Hannah-Jones and The 1619 Project.
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Students learn about voter suppression and disenfranchisement in U.S. elections, and how people are mobilizing to combat it.
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Lesson Plans
Finding & analyzing underreported news stories: Critical thinking, text analysis and writing
Students explore news articles and instructional videos to evaluate how they can find and analyze under-reported stories in the news, and in their own communities
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In this workshop, elementary students will learn what it means to be a refugee, explore how four child migrants around the world go to school, and reflect on common threads between their lives.
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In this lesson, students will watch, analyze, and conduct further research based on a Pulitzer Center webinar where infectious disease journalist Jon Cohen speaks on the path to a COVID-19 vaccine.