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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Students watch the short documentary "Moving Migrants" and examine the connections between migration, climate change, and gender in Bangladesh.
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Explore resources and opportunities for sharing 'The 1619 Project' in afterschool education spaces.
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In this lesson, students engage with stories about Latinx leaders and organizations on the frontlines of serving their communities before researching and celebrating local Latinx changemakers.
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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
‘I Am Omar’: Exploring Identity and Representation
In this lesson, students consider questions surrounding identity and representation by analyzing a story about a Muslim scholar from Senegal, who wrote the only surviving autobiography in Arabic by an...
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Students will analyze multimedia reporting and consider questions of Indigenous representation, discrimination, and erasure.
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"1619 Project": The Idea of America
A lesson from the Office of Culturally and Linguistically Responsive Initiatives at Buffalo Public Schools in which students will read to uncover hidden truths about the many contributions of enslaved...
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A lesson from the Buffalo Public Schools Office of Culturally and Linguistically Responsive Initiatives, where students explore the historical connections between slavery and mass incarceration in...
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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...
