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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Lesson Plans
Creating Comics: Using Storyboards and Comics to Share Personal Migration Stories in the ESL Classroom
Students analyze underreported news stories of migration, evaluate connections to the reporting, and write a story that they will graphically illustrate as a comic style/storyboard.
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Students analyze press coverage of youth migration, then create projects that demonstrate their empathy for, and understanding of, youth migration at all stages of the journey to the U.S. border.
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Students examine the legacy of discrimination developed under European Imperialism and Enlightenment, and research disruptors in their own communities who have fought against exclusion and oppression.
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Students investigate global and local environmental issues and explore stories that celebrate activists. Then students create posters that highlight environmental issues in Chicago.
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Students explore stories of Muslim women celebrating identity and community and then leverage interviewing and portraiture skills to celebrate the range of identities in their classroom.
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Students will analyze underreported news stories about family migration. After learning the elements of a feature story, they will research and write articles about their own migration histories.
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Lesson Plans
Equity and COVID-19
Students analyze inequities in COVID-19 vaccine distribution, develop digital literacy skills to make informed decisions about the vaccine, and then engage in civic action work to promote equity in...
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Lesson Plans
Empowering students to shape pandemic budgets
Students investigate the impact of COVID-19 on marginalized communities in Chicago, identifying issues that matter to them, to participate in discussions about CPS budget allocations as an advocate...
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Students examine historic national inequities in education, racial justice, and climate change and then highlight examples of organizations leveraging the challenge of COVID-19 to solve these...