Social Studies
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Students analyze news articles on the choices and challenges that migrants face, and use rhetorical appeals to create Public Service Announcements that reflect those choices and challenges.
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Students evaluate news stories about migration to Europe or North America from countries in Africa, and use details to create a fictional Google Earth story about the experiences of a young migrant.
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Comparing and Contrasting Global Migration Policies
Students use news resources to learn about and evaluate migration policies around the world, and to understand how policies affect migrants’ lives.
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Students analyze migration push and pull factors and create social media posts that describe the experience of women migrants around the world.
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The Migrant’s Experience
Students examine the question, “What is the migrant experience?” with the intention of demonstrating how international policies feed migration patterns that have a global effect.
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Students analyze press coverage of youth migration, then create projects that demonstrate their empathy for, and understanding of, youth migration at all stages of the journey to the U.S. border.
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Which Way Home? Exploring the Relationship Between Migration and Identity Through Personal Narrative
Students explore definitions of home, how migration and media representation influence identity, and dispel stereotypes about migrants through close reading, analysis, and discussion.
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'Race for the Vaccine' Curricular Resource
Students analyze a documentary film that depicts the vaccine development process, and captures how five teams of scientists raced against time to produce the COVID-19 vaccine.
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Teaching Guide: If God Is a Virus (Poems)
Reading guides and activities for a book of documentary poetry that interrogates the worlds of journalism, medicine, international aid, their ethics, and their intersections.
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Reproductive health, at home and abroad
Students will analyze global reporting on reproductive health and make local connections to those same issues at home.
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"Navajo Times":The People's Newspaper
In this lesson, students consider principles of local reporting by analyzing a documentary about a newspaper serving the Navajo Nation. Students also practice their own reporting skills.
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'Reading' the News: Media, Research, and Debate
Students evaluate underreported news stories and other sources to prepare and conduct debates on pressing issues that matter to them.