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Lesson Plans
Investigating Police Budgets
Students investigate how governments fund policing and how police use their budgets, and communicate facts and personal perspectives on police funding through digital zines.
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Education Resource
Behind the Story: A New Kind of National Park
In 2004, an ex-Silicon Valley entrepreneur and his nonprofit, American Prairie Reserve, set out on a...
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Lesson Plans
Evaluating "America's Medical Supply Crisis"
This viewing guide for the documentary "America’s Medical Supply Crisis” leads students in discussion, reflection, and projects that increase public awareness about the PPE shortage in the U.S.
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This resource includes quotes, key terms/names/historical events, and guiding questions for many of the 30+ essays and creative works that compose The 1857 Project.
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These activities model ways that students can apply writing, research, discussion, and visual arts skills to explorations of essays written by students for The 1857 Project.
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Lesson Plans
A Global Pandemic: Comparing, Contrasting, and Connecting to International Responses to COVID-19
In this lesson, students will analyze the challenges facing communities in Kenya and Hong Kong in stopping COVID-19 and compare their responses to other places' around the world.
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In this lesson, students will hear from a journalist who uses writing skills to describe under-reported place, and practice the same skills in original writing.
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In this lesson, students read and analyze reporting that investigates the relationship between climate change and migration using both data journalism and wrenching storytelling.
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In this lesson, students explore the concept of triage in Missouri's public defender system, and more broadly across the United States.
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Education Resource
Meet the Journalist: Jesse Hyde
Ever since the 2018 election of Jair Bolsonaro, a far-right populist with a disdain for science...
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In this lesson, students consider questions of identity and visibility by analyzing a documentary about an intersex woman from Zimbabwe seeking asylum in the U.S.
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Lesson Plans
Reading Guide: Quotes, Key Terms, and Questions
This resource includes quotes, key terms/names/historical events, and guiding questions for each of over 30 essays and creative works that compose The 1619 Project.
