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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Lesson Plans
Connecting Brittney Griner’s Detention with Local Legal Injustices: Beyond the Headlines
Students examine stories that illuminate the impact of punitive legal policies in the U.S., and understand Brittney Griner's detention in Russia in the context of global legal injustices.
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Evaluating AI's Impact on Everyday Life
Students explore reporting on the many ways artificial intelligence can be used, its potential benefits, and its negative consequences in order to evaluate AI's impact on their lives and communities.
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Students reflect on their own sense of place or belonging as they explore reporting on the lasting impact of the Morrill Act of 1862 on Native communities in the U.S.
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Beyond the Headlines: Humanitarian Crisis in Haiti
Students learn about the current humanitarian crisis in Haiti and explore its connection to foreign exploitation through the legacy of French colonial rule, debts, and military interventions.
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Beyond the Headlines: Justice for Mahsa (Zhina) Amini and Global Protests Against State Violence
Students learn about the protests in Iran sparked by the death of Mahsa (Zhina) Amini in police custody and connect the protests to global calls for justice in response to state violence.
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Banished but Unbowed: An American Legacy
Students journey through historical points of displacement and dispossession and create a digital museum that identifies tribal communities displaced by The Morrill Act.
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Agents of Change: Who Am I Among Others?
Students explore their authentic identities by connecting to underreported news stories through text analysis, research, discussion, and art making.
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Self-Identity in Today’s New America
Students analyze a range of texts that examine racial injustice in the United States and then craft an argumentative essay analyzing how racial inequality impacts identity.
