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 examine historic national inequities in education, racial justice, and climate change and then highlight examples of organizations leveraging the challenge of COVID-19 to solve these...
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Students examine news stories about youth displacement, and how youth respond with resilience and improve society. Students then script and film videos to capture personal connections to the stories.
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In this lesson, students will analyze a short film and consider how its subject uses art to challenge gender norms, then reflect on how they can challenge harmful norms in their own communities.
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Gender Related Issues are Underreported Stories
Students analyze underreported stories that center gender-based violence and explore different forms of writing to draw attention to global and local gender issues.
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Teaching Guide: If God Is a Virus (Poems)
Reading guides and activities for a book of documentary poetry that interrogates the worlds of journalism, medicine, international aid, their ethics, and their intersections.
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Reproductive health, at home and abroad
Students will analyze global reporting on reproductive health and make local connections to those same issues at home.
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"Navajo Times":The People's Newspaper
In this lesson, students consider principles of local reporting by analyzing a documentary about a newspaper serving the Navajo Nation. Students also practice their own reporting skills.
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The 1619 Project Law School Initiative partners explain the origins and impact of the collaborative project to draft law school resources inspired by The 1619 Project.
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Wealth, Labor, and Mobility
How are the ways we work and move a part of the legacy of slavery in the United States? Explore five modules about how capitalism, labor, and even American traffic are shaped by practices that...
