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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Community and Civic Participation
Students evaluate news stories about COVID-19 in the U.S. and reflect on the pandemic's impact in their own communities, then brainstorm in order to create art that inspires hope in their communities.
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“Reading” the News: Media, Research, and Debate
Students evaluate underreported news stories and other sources to prepare and conduct debates on pressing issues that matter to them.
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Vote and Voice: A Pandemic Photojournalism Series
Students analyze news stories on the COVID-19 pandemic and practice photojournalism skills to compose photo stories on the impacts of the pandemic and elections in their communities.
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Identity in the Time of COVID-19
In this lesson for ELA classes, students reflect on how identity and community have been affected by COVID-19, and the role of media in times of crisis.
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Students connect the experiences of meat packing workers to their own experiences of COVID-19 by applying descriptive writing and critical thinking to the creation of video projects.
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Believeland: Responses to the Pandemic
Students analyze news stories about the impacts of COVID-19 throughout the world, make connections to reporting, and compose community maps to document how their communities are impacted by COVID-19.
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Sickle Cell Disease and Health Justice
Students will use journalism sources to understand sickle cell disease, identify injustices that people with sickle cell face, and create art to bring awareness to the disease and related injustices.
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Students approach a variety of racial justice topics, connecting those topics to themselves and their communities through a lens of social-emotional learning.
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Students reflect on stories they have seen about migration, and then analyze text and photography from eight short articles about women from different parts of the world who were forced to migrate.
