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Students are invited to make their voices heard this election season by writing a letter to their representative that explains the global issue they want to see prioritized. Deadline: November 13...
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Lesson Plans
The Middle Passage
A lesson from the Office of Culturally and Linguistically Responsive Initiatives of Buffalo Public Schools in which students learn about the experience and journey of enslaved Africans along the...
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Lesson Plans
Displacement in the Face of Climate Change
Students analyze how climate change affects migration around the world, make local connections to global climate migration stories, and summarize learning through one-pagers and persuasive letters.
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Students learn to distinguish between breaking news and underreported stories about migration, and consider how perspectives and authorship shape the stories of migration we encounter.
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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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Students analyze news articles on the choices and challenges that migrants face, and use rhetorical appeals to create Public Service Announcements that reflect those choices and challenges.
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Students evaluate news stories about migration to Europe or North America from countries in Africa, and use details to create a fictional Google Earth story about the experiences of a young migrant.
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Lesson Plans
Comparing and Contrasting Global Migration Policies
Students use news resources to learn about and evaluate migration policies around the world, and to understand how policies affect migrants’ lives.
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Students analyze migration push and pull factors and create social media posts that describe the experience of women migrants around the world.
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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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Lesson Plans
Which Way Home? Exploring the Relationship Between Migration and Identity Through Personal Narrative
Students explore definitions of home, how migration and media representation influence identity, and dispel stereotypes about migrants through close reading, analysis, and discussion.
