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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A lesson plan to guide analysis of a video introduction to Nikole Hannah-Jones and The 1619 Project.
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Finding & analyzing underreported news stories: Critical thinking, text analysis and writing
Students explore news articles and instructional videos to evaluate how they can find and analyze under-reported stories in the news, and in their own communities
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In this workshop, elementary students will learn what it means to be a refugee, explore how four child migrants around the world go to school, and reflect on common threads between their lives.
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Analyzing the Exit of Private Prisons: Now What?
Students analyze text-based reporting and engage with what happens when communities decide to stop relying on private companies to run correctional institutions
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Growing Up Through the Cracks: Exploring Solutions to Child Poverty in Scotland and the United States
Students analyze solutions to end child poverty in Glasgow, Scotland and Allegheny County in the Southwest of Pennsylvania.
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A lesson plan for close reading and guided discussion of Bryan Stevenson's essay "Mass Incarceration," which traces the legacy of slavery in the contemporary criminal legal system.
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The Weekly: Analyzing the Impacts of Chronic Disease
Students learn about sickle cell disease and the first teen to undergo an experimental new treatment, while also exploring issues of chronic illness and access to medical care more broadly.
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A Lost Generation: Learning About Family Migration from Indigenous Villages in Guatemala
In this lesson, students evaluate audio and print reporting on the long-term causes and effects of family migration from rural Guatemala.
