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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Lesson Plans
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These texts, video and photo stories have been selected by our staff for elementary, middle school and high school audiences and can be reviewed within one class period.
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These texts, video and photo stories have been selected by our staff for elementary, middle school and high school audiences and can be reviewed within one class period.
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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
What's in a Caption? [Worksheet + Discussion]
Students explore photography from diverse global reporting and consider how photo captions can assist viewers in understanding a photojournalism project.
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Discussion and activity ideas for a lesson exploring the re-criminalization of homosexuality in India through portrait photography.
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Lesson Plans
What Is Home?
Students explore ideas of “home” in connection to refugees worldwide and homelessness locally by analyzing images and text from Finding Home and creating their own photo stories that reflect their own...
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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 learn about elements of narrative nonfiction through reporting on uranium mining in the U.S. They then plan and conduct their own reporting trips and write travelogue essays.