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In Puerto Rico, COVID-19 and natural disasters are impacting students' quality of education. Énoa...
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This unit connects global stories of migration with an investigation into local Newark history in order to build a digital archive celebrating migration’s impact on Newark and student’s own lives.
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Lesson Plans
The Migrant’s Experience
Students examine the question, “What is the migrant experience?” with the intention of demonstrating how international policies feed migration patterns that have a global effect.
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Students analyze press coverage of youth migration, then create projects that demonstrate their empathy for, and understanding of, youth migration at all stages of the journey to the U.S. border.
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Students will analyze underreported news stories about family migration. After learning the elements of a feature story, they will research and write articles about their own migration histories.
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Students learn to identify perspectives and their implications by reading The Tempest, alongside other literary and journalistic texts, and analyzing themes of colonialism, xenophobia, and migration.
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Students examine news stories about youth displacement, and how youth respond with resilience and improve society. Students then script and film videos to capture personal connections to the stories.
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Amid Puerto Rico's political crisis, Black communities fight for justice against racism, systemic...
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Education Resource
Behind the Story: Haitian Climate Migrants in the Bahamas
In 2019, Hurricane Dorian devastated the Bahamas. Informal settlements of Haitian migrants were hit...
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In this lesson, students analyze how journalists use interviews to research and tell under-reported stories. They then apply those tips to planning, conducting, and editing their own interviews.