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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This resource is designed to support school and/or district-wide professional development on AI Accountability.
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Truth Be Told: What Matters to Us
Through reading, discussion, and data analysis, students discover why youth disengage from news and explore how local stories and authentic voices can drive change.
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Students analyze how photo projects are composed to empathize with and humanize the stories of migrants and immigrants, evaluate how their communities are represented in local media, and then compose...
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Global Issues, Local Context Workshop
Students analyze local and global news stories to evaluate political issues, and then design and teach lesson plans introducing the issues to younger students.
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Using GIS to Track Lead Levels in Chicago
Students compare accounts of lead poisoning in Oakland, CA, to coverage of Chicago’s issues with lead. They conduct water tests and use data to develop a lead count map for Chicago.
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From Global to Local
Students explore local and national news stories to examine how climate challenges and community-led solutions impact Arizona, and then develop action plans to address environmental issues in their...
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Students evaluate the role of journalism in uncovering systemic issues, and inspiring local action, through analysis of investigations into prisons in two U.S. states.
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After exploring local reporting about immigration, students lean into dialectic journaling and then lean into the ‘lost art’ of letter writing as a way of building historical context, global...
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In this lesson, students will analyze a Pulitzer story on Black voter access, compare it with a local story, and create a social media campaign to advocate for voting rights.
