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 a multimedia story about refugee families to identify causes and possible responses to the refugee crisis and connect with those affected by it.
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Evaluating Policies Impacting Deaf Students in China
Students will be able to analyze details from an article about policies impacting Deaf students in China in order to write a short essay evaluating the challenges and benefits that result from those...
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Students learn about health problems associated with solid fuel cooking, alternative cooking methods that would reduce the incidence of these problems, and the difficulties of implementing changes.
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Students will summarize text about undocumented mothers and the ankle monitors. Students will then create an argument using details from the text.
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Addressing Taboos Through Afghan Poetry
In this lesson, students investigate landai poetry and the women who create them in order to write poems that address taboos facing their own communities.
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Child Soldiers: Surviving Boko Haram
This lesson introduces students to the individual experiences of child soldiers as well as larger issues like the impact of war on children through reporting on Boko Haram.
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Women Learning and Practicing Law in Saudi Arabia
Students learn about the emerging cohort of women lawyers in Saudi Arabia and explore the history, culture, and politics of Saudi Arabia to understand the situation for women lawyers and law students.
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This group of lessons explores the interplay between religion and power. Students evaluate the degree to which religious forces impact the strength of a country's democratic institutions.
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Sectarian Tensions and Their Impacts
Students analyze why religions have internal conflicts and discuss whether these conflicts are truly religious in nature.
