Elementary
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Students explore text and photos (including Instagram stories) about a school for girls in rural India in order to spark conversation about access to education and feminism in their communities.
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Lesson Plans
Global Explorers [Workshop]
Students explore how to seek out under-reported global stories and make local connections to them in this workshop.
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Students will explore literary journalism by learning about what life is like for children who live in and got to school at Kakuma refugee camp.
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In this lesson, students read a short text [5-10 minutes] about how exotic pet ownership leads to loss in biodiversity, and respond to writing prompts. Students can be introduced to the subject with...
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Students explore how their image of the word "home" compares with how three Syrian women imagine their future homes through close analysis of the multimedia project "Finding Home" from TIME Magazine.
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Lesson Plans
Outwitting Nature’s Greatest Killer
Students will use information from a multimedia story to examine and debate different strategies for combating mosquito-transmitted illnesses.
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In this short lesson, students view photos that tell stories about hurricanes very differently and think critically about how to spread natural disaster news in a useful, respectful way.
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Evaluating Policies Impacting Deaf Students in China
Students will be able to analyze details from an article about policies impacting Deaf students in China in order to write a short essay evaluating the challenges and benefits that result from those...
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Exotic Pets and Impacts on the Food Chain
Students will be able to describe the impacts of removing exotic animals from their native environment, including impacts on the food chain, using details from reporting by Sean Gallagher. Within this...
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What the World Did on Summer Vacation
Students explore four international topics (North Korea, Syria, Venezuela, and climate change) that made news this summer using photography-based activities.
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The World's Most Toxic Town
Use reporting on Zambia’s lead mines by Damian Carrington and Larry C. Price to explore the causes, effects and responses to toxic lead poisoning.
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Mind Over Matter
The following lesson plan explores the concept of suggestibility through taste tests and discussion. Students will learn about the role suggestibility plays in various aspects of their lives.
