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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Students explore reporting about the lived experiences of BIPOC and historically marginalized people, eventually designing children’s books that tell their own important and underrepresented story.
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Students engage with the question, “How does my community relate to the larger global community in the problems that they face?”
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Can I Ask You Something?
Students engage key questions that drive exploration of global issues and underreported local stories, resulting in podcasts that capture the plurality of experiences and voices in their community.
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Students analyze structural racism and the enduring legacy of U.S. slavery through text analysis and the detailed development of a final research paper and TikTok video reflecting their research.
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The Journey: My Family and How They Got Here
Students analyze a series of first person narratives of immigrants and migrants and then capture stories of migration from their own family in short documentary films.
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Harmfully Relevant History
Students explore how events from the past influence the present, how rhetoric can be used to inspire empathy, and how journalism/media can be used as a tool for justice and reform.
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What Is the Cycle of War and Peace?
Students engage with underreported news stories, excerpts from books that explore the theme of conflict and peace, and local stories to create a project exploring cycles of conflict and peace.
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The D.C. Lottery System
Students analyze the relationship between race, wealth, and educational access by examining the issue of school segregation in global and local contexts.
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Community in the Face of Climate Change
Students analyze how communities can leverage local government and community advocacy to address environmental events driven by climate change.
