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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Fourth-grade students explore underreported stories that highlight achievements of Black and Latinx individuals, leveraging art, music and journalism to understand and celebrate diversity.
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Ode to Healthy Futures
Make connections to the science that shapes our lives and share your vision for a healthy future through poetry.
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This resource is designed to support classroom engagement with AI journalism by providing background information and key concepts for better understanding artificial intelligence and its societal...
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Students examine the impact individuals, governments and corporations have on what might be our most precious natural resource: drinking water.
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Everyday Youth Telling Their Own Stories
Students employ the framework that drives underreported global stories to investigate and document stories from their community, elevating teen perspectives of underreported stories in Chicago
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Our Immigration Cuentos
Students will examine underreported stories related to immigration and relate the articles they read to themes of querencia. Working in groups, they present the story they investigated to the class...
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Fake News + Text Analysis
Students will analyze how algorithms employed by social media platforms influence their perspective on an underreported global issue.
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By engaging in global news stories, students discover the cultural connection between masks and social issues, ultimately employing the art form to amplify an issue central to their cultural and/or...
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Investigating, Informing, Influencing: Exploring Current Issues on a National and Global Scale
Students use a thinking routine to analyze a curated list of seven news stories on a global issue they select. Working in groups, they evaluate connections in the reporting, formulate claims about the...
