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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School Lunch Around the World
In this lesson, students will explore controversy about India's midday meal program and consider how school lunches around the world compare to their own experiences.
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Stewart: Debating Drones
In this lesson, students will weigh the benefits and drawbacks of the use of drones for surveillance, war, and agriculture.
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Museum of Current Crises
This lesson plan outlines a project that allows students the opportunity to connect with a contemporary crisis somewhere in the world.
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This Common Core-aligned lesson helps students explore the Haitian experience through poetry, photography, and music.
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Objective: to allow students to explore the interplay between China’s politics, environmentalism and Tibetan Buddhism. Lesson length: 50 minutes.
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Power Lunch: India's Mid-day Meal Program
How do content and form work together in telling a story in the news? This unit/lesson builds on thinking routines developed by Project Zero at Harvard University.
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Swimming and Water Safety
Lesson 1: Launch (warmup): Objective: Learn about the importance of water safety and collect class data on swimming involvement. Make a list of the ten things you most like to do in the summer. What...
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Students will compare two kinds of visual journalism documenting the end of the war in Afghanistan.
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The Journey North: Exploring reasons behind migration to the U.S. from Mexico, Honduras, and Guatemala
In this lesson we will look at three reporting projects: violence in Honduras; violence in Guatemala; and the abduction of students in Iguala, Guerrero, Mexico.