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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Museum of Current Crises
This lesson plan outlines a project that allows students the opportunity to connect with a contemporary crisis somewhere in the world.
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Students will compare two kinds of visual journalism documenting the end of the war in Afghanistan.
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Population Bomb: Is Population Control the Answer?
This lesson uses reporting by Sarah Weiser and others to examine how population pressures have been dealt with in various regions.
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Why They Flee: Understanding the Migration of Minors
Students investigate multiple perspectives on migration by children and teens to the U.S. from Central America in order to ultimately propose ideas for immigration reform to their state senators.
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Weighing the Pros and Cons of Working Abroad
Students will read articles and watch videos as preparation to an empathy-building exercise that will help them understand why people choose to leave their families to seek out employment overseas.
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Students will make connections between history 600 years ago and present problems confronting South American Countries such as Brazil and Peru.
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Laufenberg: Debating Drones
This lesson supports student explorations into the ethics of using drones in civilian life and warfare.
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Can Iran and the U.S. Negotiate?
Students will analyze both sides of the mistrust between Iran and the US and will create their own informed opinions of the nuclear negotiations.
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Analyzing How the Press Depicts Islam
Students will expand their understanding of Islam by comparing press coverage to what Muslims in the Middle East are doing to try to prevent the world from misunderstanding what most Muslims believe.
