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
The 1619 Project Resources for Afterschool Education
Explore resources and opportunities for sharing 'The 1619 Project' in afterschool education spaces.
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In this lesson, students engage with stories about Latinx leaders and organizations on the frontlines of serving their communities before researching and celebrating local Latinx changemakers.
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‘I Am Omar’: Exploring Identity and Representation
Students analyze a story about a Muslim scholar from Senegal, who wrote the only surviving autobiography in Arabic by an enslaved person in the United States.
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Students will analyze multimedia reporting and consider questions of Indigenous representation, discrimination, and erasure.
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Lesson Plans
The Middle Passage
A lesson from the Office of Culturally and Linguistically Responsive Initiatives of Buffalo Public Schools in which students learn about the experience and journey of enslaved Africans along the...
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Students analyze news articles on the choices and challenges that migrants face, and use rhetorical appeals to create Public Service Announcements that reflect those choices and challenges.
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Lesson Plans
The 1619 Podcast Listening Guide
This resource serves as a guide for listening, analyzing, and responding to episodes of the "1619" podcast. It includes time-stamped sections, guided questions, and extension activities for each...
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Students analyze migration push and pull factors and create social media posts that describe the experience of women migrants around the world.
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Lesson Plans
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Students work with lawmakers to enact change by creating photojournalism projects that illustrate how passing legislation will help them reach their dreams.
