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
The Weekly: Analyzing the Impacts of Chronic Disease
Students learn about sickle cell disease and the first teen to undergo an experimental new treatment, while also exploring issues of chronic illness and access to medical care more broadly.
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Students explore reporting on civil asset forfeiture (the seizure of property police believe is connected to a crime), evaluate perspectives on "policing for profit," and make local connections.
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Students explore reporting on Indigenous youth activism in the Amazon, analyze the causes of plastic pollution, and consider how they can make a difference in reducing waste in their own communities.
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1. Warm-up reflection: where does your food come from, and what happens to the waste it creates? 2. Introducing the lesson: exploring the Amazon river and the Indigenous youth defending its...
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1. Warm-up reflection: where does your food come from, and what happens to the waste it creates? 2. Introducing the lesson: exploring the Amazon river and the Indigenous youth defending its...
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Lesson Plans
Using Oral History in Reporting
Students learn about the techniques and value of oral history by looking at examples used in reporting, and developing their own projects by connecting historical events to their own community.
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Students learn about how gold from illegal mines in Colombia winds up in American electronics, and the violence, labor conditions, and environmental consequences that result from this trade.
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Lesson Plans
A Lost Generation: Learning About Family Migration from Indigenous Villages in Guatemala
In this lesson, students evaluate audio and print reporting on the long-term causes and effects of family migration from rural Guatemala.
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Students evaluate how climate change is impacting the land, people and wildlife on Cape Cod through close reading of the article "At the Edge of a Warming World" from The Boston Globe.
