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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Structuring Reporting on War Crimes in Sri Lanka
Students will analyze how authors order ideas and emphasize details to report on a global conflict. They will reflect on injustices they have witnessed and write their own reports on local conflicts.
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Obama’s Plan to Feed the World’s Poorest
Students will evaluate President Obama’s Food Plan and discuss/debate whether the initiative will be effective or not.
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Making a Movement
Students will (1) discuss the advantages and disadvantages of using social media and other forms of communication to bolster a movement and (2) create and present a text that promotes an issue.
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Environmental Health: What is it?
This lesson draws from a range of projects on food waste, ocean health, global goods and extractives, food insecurity, water and sanitation and more to support student understanding around...
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Proposing a Win for Women Worldwide
Students will integrate information from multiple news sources in order to explore gender inequality issues around the world.
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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.