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
Should the Beijing City Government Shut Down the Underground Residences of the Rat Tribe?
Students will be able to identify the push and pull factors of Chinese migrant workers, analyze their living conditions in Beijing.
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Students will identify the discriminatory nature of Russia’s Anti-Propaganda Law, analyze ways it violates Russian citizens’ constitutional rights, and propose solutions.
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A Free Meal: India's School Lunch Program
India's midday meal program is the largest free lunch school program in the world. Through animation, radio reports and articles, students discover the successes and failures of the program.
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Families of Domestic Workers from the Philippines
In this lesson, students evaluate the impact of how an author orders information by analyzing two articles about Filipino women leaving their countries to work as domestic workers in the Middle East.
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Stopgap Health Care in the Developing World
Students will learn about the state of health care in developing nations, and to draw conclusions about effective health care from their successes and failures.
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Students will develop a foreign policy proposal regarding fragile states, which they will plan to submit to the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations.
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U.S.-Cuba Relations
This lesson uses reporting by Tracey Eaton and Rachel Southmayd to support student understanding around the state of relations between the US and Cuba.
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The following land rights lesson plan focuses on how journalist Chris Arsenault used different mediums to emphasize different points while reporting on land rights in Mali.
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Students identify how contrasting arguments are presented in articles about native Amazonian populations in Peru. Students will also reflect on a country's responsibility to its native communities.
