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
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.
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Population Bomb: Is Population Control the Answer?
This lesson uses reporting by Sarah Weiser and others to examine how population pressures have been dealt with in various regions.
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Why They Flee: Understanding the Migration of Minors
Students investigate multiple perspectives on migration by children and teens to the U.S. from Central America in order to ultimately propose ideas for immigration reform to their state senators.
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Students will explore the potential impact of Pope Francis's call for ecological preservation and contrast trends in China that are prompting Buddhists there to be better environmental stewards.
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The Geography of Poverty
Objective: Use viewing skills and strategies to interpret visual media.
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Clean Water: A Global Challenge
In this lesson, students explore the causes and consequences of the fragile water and sanitation infrastructure in Nepal.
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A high school civics lesson that uses photography as a tool for neighborhood improvement.
