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
Facing Risk: Journalists and their Families
This lesson, designed for journalists and journalism students, uses the film "Facing Risk" to guide a conversation about the impact of reporting dangerous stories on journalists and their families.
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World Religions, Science, and Beliefs
This unit asks middle school students to explore the varying roles beliefs play in people's lives through the lenses of world religions, science, and social relationships.
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Students will discuss how they use water, predict the impacts of a reduced groundwater supply, investigate articles and video, and create advocacy campaigns in support of groundwater regulations.
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This lesson asks students to compare the water crisis facing Flint, Michigan to a water crisis in China. Students use digital resources and practice cooperative learning and writing skills.
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Climate, Land Rights, and Water Lesson Plans
These lessons present close reading, writing, discussion and hands-on activities that explore reporting on climate change, land rights debates and water issues.
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Visualizing Post-Chavez Venezuela
Students analyze the use of images to visualize the human impact of the socioeconomic changes in Venezuela in order to select an image that encapsulates the economic struggles facing Venezuelans.
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In “ Fight for Falluja”—the virtual reality piece accompanying The New York Times Magazine ’s landmark project “Fractured Lands,”—Pulitzer Prize-winning video journalist Ben C. Solomon gives viewers a...
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In this land rights and multimedia lesson plan for English teachers, history teachers, humanities teachers, media teachers and science teachers, students explore Fatal Extraction, a multi-media...
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This Common Core standards-aligned for English teachers, science teachers, history teachers and journalism teachers asks students to assess how journalists integrate diverse media and structure text...