Elementary
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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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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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Students explore reporting on Indigenous youth activism in the Amazon, analyze the causes of plastic pollution, and consider how they can make a difference in reducing waste in their own communities.
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1. Warm-up reflection: where does your food come from, and what happens to the waste it creates? 2. Introducing the lesson: exploring the Amazon river and the Indigenous youth defending its...
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1. Warm-up reflection: where does your food come from, and what happens to the waste it creates? 2. Introducing the lesson: exploring the Amazon river and the Indigenous youth defending its...
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Engage with the challenges and solutions that communities around the world are grappling with when trying to access vital food sources.
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This activity aims to help students make connections with their counterparts around the world by exploring what young people in different countries do in their free time.
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Lesson Plans
Home, Community, and Tradition: Ramadan in Refuge
This lesson looks at a story about refugees who are reckoning with religion and identity while during Ramadan and explores concepts of home, community, and tradition.
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Students read and discuss stories featuring children with an incarcerated parent, then take action to find solutions to some of the challenges these children face.
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Lesson Plans
Fighting Climate Change with Community Action
This lesson introduces students to some of the ways people around the world are fighting climate change in their own communities, and challenges them to take action themselves.
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Lesson Plans
Exploring Afropunk's Global Influence
Students explore Afropunk as a global social catalyst and consider art and fashion's relationship to identity, culture, and social movements.
![At left, 31-year-old Melia attended her first Afropunk event last year in Paris. "It's nice to meet people from everywhere. It's another way to look at Africa." At right, South Africa had its own festival to close out 2017. Image by Melissa Bunni Elian. South Africa, 2017.](/sites/default/files/styles/510x315/public/afropunk1.jpg.webp?h=9bd577d8&itok=9e-5an67 "At left, 31-year-old Melia attended her first Afropunk event last year in Paris. "It's nice to meet people from everywhere. It's another way to look at Africa." At right, South Africa had its own festival to close out 2017. Image by Melissa Bunni Elian. South Africa, 2017.")