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 explore reporting about the lived experiences of BIPOC and historically marginalized people, eventually designing children’s books that tell their own important and underrepresented story.
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Can I Ask You Something?
Students engage key questions that drive exploration of global issues and underreported local stories, resulting in podcasts that capture the plurality of experiences and voices in their community.
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Students engage with the question, “How does my community relate to the larger global community in the problems that they face?”
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Students analyze structural racism and the enduring legacy of U.S. slavery through text analysis and the detailed development of a final research paper and TikTok video reflecting their research.
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Harmfully Relevant History
Students explore how events from the past influence the present, how rhetoric can be used to inspire empathy, and how journalism/media can be used as a tool for justice and reform.
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The D.C. Lottery System
Students analyze the relationship between race, wealth, and educational access by examining the issue of school segregation in global and local contexts.
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Society’s Mirror: Stories to Change the World
Students produce podcasts that cover local underreported stories after analyzing historical and contemporary issues central to Native American history and culture in the U.S.
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Great Expectations: Transforming Views of Success
Students examine the relationship between success, opportunity, and environment by analyzing underreported news stories and conducting interviews about the impact of systemic issues in the U.S.
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Students get a glimpse into the lives LGBTQ+ people lead, the challenges they face, and the communities they form by exploring photo stories from around the world and reflecting on their own community...
