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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Students will develop a proposal for the Punjab and Kashmir governments in India to help prevent and eventually eliminate the heroin epidemic.
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What is it like to be a refugee and how can we help spread the word about the problems refugees face?
Questions for "World Refugee Day: Waking Up the International Community" Answer while you read: When is World Refugee Day? How many people have been displaced from their homes in the past year? Which...
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Getting the Word Out About Food Waste
Students analyze reporting about food waste in D.C. and South Korea. They then create their own media plans on reporting food waste issues in their communities.
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The Impact of 'Polish Gold'
Students will learn about the effects of burning coal in Poland and apply their analyses of the articles to create a presentation that they feel will best support advocacy for coal regulation.
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What's the Impact of Finding Oil in Your Backyard?
Students learn about the impact of finding oil in Kenya and apply what they learned to a presentation advocating for, or protesting against, hypothetical drilling for oil in their own communities.
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Human Adapters to Climate Change
Using multiple reporting projects from our Climate Change Gateway, this lesson explores the responses of various communities worldwide to a changing climate. Note: Each student in the class should...
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The Effects of Ocean Acidification
Students will evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of using different mediums to inform people about the impact of ocean acidification in the Pacific Northwest.
