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
'Our Democracy' Curricular Materials
Award-winning documentary photographer Andrea Bruce wants Americans to examine what democracy looks like in their local communities and everyday lives. Our Democracy is her 2-year, open study of...
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A project-based unit that engage students in the production of their own citizen journalism for Andrea Bruce's Our Democracy project.
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Engage students in a dialogue about democracy with photojournalist Andrea Bruce and members of a re-entry program in Memphis, Tennessee.
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Lesson Plans
5 Articles for Your Spanish Class
Through these articles, students will explore diverse cultures and connect to pressing issues facing Spanish-speaking communities.
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These texts, video and photo stories have been selected by our staff for elementary, middle school and high school audiences and can be reviewed within one class period.
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These texts, video and photo stories have been selected by our staff for elementary, middle school and high school audiences and can be reviewed within one class period.
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Lesson Plans
What Is Home?
Students explore ideas of “home” in connection to refugees worldwide and homelessness locally by analyzing images and text from Finding Home and creating their own photo stories that reflect their own...
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Students will explore literary journalism by learning about what life is like for children who live in and got to school at Kakuma refugee camp.
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Lesson Plans
5 Lesson Plans to Celebrate World Press Freedom Day
In celebration of World Press Freedom Day, we've compiled our top five lesson plans on the importance of a free media, and how journalists and citizens stand up for it around the world.
