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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Language Matters!
Various standards-aligned lessons to support student learning around the importance of language diversity.
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Soil Pollution in China
Essential questions: What is the cost of industrialization and who pays it? How do we determine whether food is safe? How do you balance food security (production) and food safety?
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Ocean Health and Overfishing
Standards-aligned lessons to support student learning around overfishing and ocean health.
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School Lunches
Students outline a typical lunchroom at their school - drawings preferably - and predict what a lunchroom in another country might look like.
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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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How to Fight Corruption in a Dangerous State?
Students will analyze whether technology can increase citizens’ abilities to fight corruption when speaking out can result in jail time or death.
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The Power of Free School Lunch in India
Students will analyze how important school lunches have become in India.
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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.
