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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Libya After Liberation
Students will debate what policy Italy should implement when dealing with the migrants from Libya after their role in overthrowing Gaddafi.
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Beyond 7 Billion
Students will analyze the choices for girls in Bangladesh and discuss whether working in the garment industry really does allow women to find more freedom.
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Cash Transfer Programs in Malawi
Students will come to their own informed conclusion as to whether cash payments to those living in poverty is helpful or simply a hand out.
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Structuring Reporting on War Crimes in Sri Lanka
Students will analyze how authors order ideas and emphasize details to report on a global conflict. They will reflect on injustices they have witnessed and write their own reports on local conflicts.
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Making a Movement
Students will (1) discuss the advantages and disadvantages of using social media and other forms of communication to bolster a movement and (2) create and present a text that promotes an issue.
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Proposing a Win for Women Worldwide
Students will integrate information from multiple news sources in order to explore gender inequality issues around the world.
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Should the Beijing City Government Shut Down the Underground Residences of the Rat Tribe?
Students will be able to identify the push and pull factors of Chinese migrant workers, analyze their living conditions in Beijing.
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Families of Domestic Workers from the Philippines
In this lesson, students evaluate the impact of how an author orders information by analyzing two articles about Filipino women leaving their countries to work as domestic workers in the Middle East.
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Students will develop a foreign policy proposal regarding fragile states, which they will plan to submit to the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations.
