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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Beyond the Headlines: Humanitarian Crisis in Haiti
Students learn about the current humanitarian crisis in Haiti and explore its connection to foreign exploitation through the legacy of French colonial rule, debts, and military interventions.
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Beyond the Headlines: Justice for Mahsa (Zhina) Amini and Global Protests Against State Violence
Students learn about the protests in Iran sparked by the death of Mahsa (Zhina) Amini in police custody and connect the protests to global calls for justice in response to state violence.
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What the Fact?! Teaching Guide
This teaching guide supports in-depth engagement with Dr. Seema Yasmin's new book about media literacy, which explains how misinformation spreads, its effects, and what we can do to stop it.
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Banished but Unbowed: An American Legacy
Students journey through historical points of displacement and dispossession and create a digital museum that identifies tribal communities displaced by The Morrill Act.
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Dramatic Scriptwriting and Underreported Issues
Students analyze how journalist-playwrights communicate true stories through theater, then plan and write their own dramatic scripts about underreported issues, working to center marginalized voices.
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Agents of Change: Who Am I Among Others?
Students explore their authentic identities by connecting to underreported news stories through text analysis, research, discussion, and art making.
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Self-Identity in Today’s New America
Students analyze a range of texts that examine racial injustice in the United States and then craft an argumentative essay analyzing how racial inequality impacts identity.
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Students analyze reporting from Eastern Europe to evaluate the differences between the authoritarian and representative democracy styles of governments. They explore ways that leaders from both styles...
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The Power of the Personal Story
Students analyze news stories and other nonfiction texts focused on the experiences of individuals who have been forced to migrate throughout the world, and then practice the skills of storytelling...
