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
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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Students analyze reporting from Eastern Europe to evaluate the differences between the authoritarian and representative democracy styles of governments. They explore ways that leaders from both styles...
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The Power of the Personal Story
Students analyze news stories and other nonfiction texts focused on the experiences of individuals who have been forced to migrate throughout the world, and then practice the skills of storytelling...
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Students learn about disenfranchisement and the fight for voting rights from Reconstruction to the present. They then compose an underreported story about a person fighting for democracy locally.
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Students analyze texts and art on the theme of humanity. They explore stories about Ethiopia's civil war and the experiences of Rohingya refugees, and create poems and art in response to the stories.
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Students discover the range of global events that spur human migration and then explore one migration narrative by crafting a book cover that captures their journey.
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Examining Peacebuilding as a Framework
Students will examine peacebuilding efforts in Chicago and Colombia, looking at how peacebuilding can be used as a framework to address the underlying causes of conflict, heal trauma, and prevent the...
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'Bring Them Home' Lesson Plan and Viewing Guide
Students will examine the challenges of negotiating for the release of a U.S. businessman detained in Iran by watching a short film about his family and their efforts to secure his freedom.
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Contextualizing the Crisis in Ukraine
Students analyze reporting on conflict and Russian intervention in Ukraine over the past several years to gain context for the current crisis.
