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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Law and Politics
Explore essays from The 1619 Project that challenge readers to think about how the history of slavery has been taught—and how contemporary legal discussions are linked to slavery.
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Arts and Culture
What do American art and music say about our society and the law? What do they say about what this country has become? Explore an article, photo essay, and poem to discuss the ways the institution of...
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Public Health
How is America’s health care system linked to the institution of slavery? Use this resource to discuss terms like “medical apartheid” and analyze the impact socialized health care systems might have...
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Mass Incarceration
Use this resource to explore the work of Bryan Stevenson, Michelle Alexander, and Dorothy Roberts on the subject of mass incarceration, and examine connections between slavery, Jim Crow, and mass...
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Explore a range of racial justice topics through the lense of social emotional learning.
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Students review photo stories that explore the challenges that Black Americans, Native Americans, and immigrants face in the United States.
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Pandemic: A Child’s Perspective
Students will build upon their literacy skills by analyzing underreported stories. They will conduct interviews with children around the world of similar ages about their experiences during the...
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Writing Personal Narratives in a Political World
Exploring the connection between journalistic writing and personal narrative.
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Students reflect on stories they have seen about migration, and then analyze text and photography from eight short articles about women from different parts of the world who were forced to migrate.
