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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The 1619 Project Resources for Afterschool Education
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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‘I Am Omar’: Exploring Identity and Representation
Students analyze a story about a Muslim scholar from Senegal, who wrote the only surviving autobiography in Arabic by an enslaved person in the United States.
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Students will analyze multimedia reporting and consider questions of Indigenous representation, discrimination, and erasure.
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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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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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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.
