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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The Nanny's Child: Economic Factors in Migration
This lesson uses a photo essay as a primary source so students can identify the Seven Economic Principles in a real world situation.
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Interview Skills for English Language Learners
This lesson helps students decode and connect with images from a reporting project about migration. The students then interview each other, and go on to interview community members about immigration.
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An extension of " Seeking Asylum: Women and Children Migrating Across Borders", this lesson provides suggestions for student research, reporting, arts activities, and community service.
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World Religions, Science, and Beliefs
This unit asks middle school students to explore the varying roles beliefs play in people's lives through the lenses of world religions, science, and social relationships.
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Widowhood and Women's Rights
Students learn about the legal, political, cultural, and religious factors that impact the treatment of widows in India, Uganda, and Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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Students learn about asylum seekers and the boundaries between refugees and migrants. They explore how current refugee and migration policies impact women and children.
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Migration and Refugees Lesson Plans
The following lesson plans for middle school teachers, high school teachers and college professors introduce reporting connected to migration and the experiences of refugees.
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Is There Really Religious Conflict?
This lesson challenges students to take a position related to what is causing or fueling conflicts that could be labeled religious. Students create an argumentative research paper and presentation.
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Students discuss culture, identity, and the impact of government-mandated residential schools for Indigenous children in the U.S. and Canada using photography and reporting by Daniella Zalcman.
