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.
-
Lesson Plans
The Impact Of The Pandemic In Local And Global Contexts—Understanding My Role In My Community To Change The World
Students will learn about what a journalist does, how to write interview questions, and how to conduct an interview. Students will then share the highlights of their interview. Students can write an...
-
Lesson Plans
Pandemic: A Child’s Perspective
Students will build upon their literacy skills by analyzing underreported stories. They will conduct interviews with children around the world of similar ages about their experiences during the...
-
Lesson Plans
'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.
-
Lesson Plans
Visualizing The Pandemic: An Exploration in Descriptive Statistics and Personal Stories
Students will create a descriptive statistics data visualization to go with a chosen under-reported story about the impacts of the coronavirus pandemic. They will reflect on their graphic...
-
Lesson Plans
Sickle Cell Disease and Health Justice
Students use journalism sources to understand sickle cell disease, identify injustices that people with sickle cell face, and create art (poetry and posters) that brings awareness to the disease and...
-
Lesson Plans
Writing Personal Narratives in a Political World
Exploring the connection between journalistic writing and personal narrative.
-
Unit Overview: Analyzing how illustrations can enhance journalistic coverage, and using art and journalism skills to amplify underreported social justice issues in students' communities. Resources for...
-
Lesson Plans
Food Justice: Planting the Seeds of Change
Students use varied art and media forms to learn about and raise awareness of food (in)security issues around the world and in their own communities.
-
This lesson will explore the art of telling individual stories through different mediums while engaging with the reporting from The COVID-19 Writers Project (C19WP).
![](/sites/default/files/styles/510x315/public/13980989747_e4a0652d09_b.jpg.webp?h=436b82d4&itok=li4emYPs ""Refined (lock)" by Brett Jordan is licensed under CC BY 2.0")
