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 are invited to enter poems written in response to news stories to the Fighting Words Poetry Contest. This workshop guides teachers and students in how to craft a successful entry.
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Identity Resource Screening Tool for Educators
Educators from the 2021 Network Cohort share a screening tool they developed to support other educators teaching about marginalized identities and group resistance to oppression.
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Fighting Words: Concurso y taller de poesía
Se invita a estudiantes a entregar poemas escritos en respuesta a noticias al concurso de poesía del Pulitzer Center. Esta página incluye directrices del concurso y un taller para guiar el proceso de...
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Belonging and Memory in Athens, GA
Students apply research, photography, writing, and interview skills to explore the Black community's sense of belonging and memory in Athens, GA.
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Students explore how cultural identity is informed by history through engagement with “The 1619 Project," and ultimately create Altered Books to reflect what stories they think should be amplified.
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A Children's History
Students conduct research to create children’s picture books about underreported, or historically “erased,” topics in the teaching of U.S. history.
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Commodities, Contributions, and Compensation
Students examine the commodification of the labor of enslaved Black Americans, explore their contributions to the formation of American democracy, and examine arguments for and against reparations.
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Yo soy moreno; yo luchare; yo seré victorioso
Students explore the history of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade and the resistance movements led by Afro-Latinx people of the Americas, analyzing the legacy of this resistance.
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Learning and Teaching About Enslavement
Students reflect on histories of enslavement, analyze enslavement systems, and use a Structured-Academic Controversy protocol to argue for how the history of enslavement should be taught.
