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 cross-cultural solidarity in the context of social justice movements in America by examining a diverse range of historical and contemporary texts and craft reflections through daily...
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Preparing for Migration
Students explore a range of reporting on the theme of migration and then leverage research and interviewing skills to prepare for upcoming academic or vocational transitions.
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Journalism, Justice, and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: Project Based Learning
Students identify underreported news stories that challenge the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and then develop solutions to a violation of the declaration in their own community.
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Creating Comics: Using Storyboards and Comics to Share Personal Migration Stories in the ESL Classroom
Students analyze underreported news stories of migration, evaluate connections to the reporting, and write a story that they will graphically illustrate as a comic style/storyboard.
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Students analyze press coverage of youth migration, then create projects that demonstrate their empathy for, and understanding of, youth migration at all stages of the journey to the U.S. border.
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Students examine the legacy of discrimination developed under European Imperialism and Enlightenment, and research disruptors in their own communities who have fought against exclusion and oppression.
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Students investigate global and local environmental issues and explore stories that celebrate activists. Then students create posters that highlight environmental issues in Chicago.
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Equity and COVID-19
Students analyze inequities in COVID-19 vaccine distribution, develop digital literacy skills to make informed decisions about the vaccine, and then engage in civic action work to promote equity in...
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Empowering students to shape pandemic budgets
Students investigate the impact of COVID-19 on marginalized communities in Chicago, identifying issues that matter to them, to participate in discussions about CPS budget allocations as an advocate...
