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
Recipes and Roadmaps for Healing
Students engage with journalism, short films, local interviews, and self reflection to expand their definitions of advocacy, explore the causes and impacts of trauma, and ultimately compose a recipe...
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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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Students analyze news stories about evictions and the housing crisis in the U.S., evaluate housing insecurity in their communities, and create a photo and writing project that captures their research.
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Picture This!
Students apply close reading and photo analysis skills to analyze underreported global news stories. They then compose photojournalism projects capturing underrepresented stories in their communities.
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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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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.
