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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tudents use descriptive writing and critical thinking skills to create video responses centered on the experiences of workers from meat manufacturing plants (1900–present) in the U.S. in order to make...
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Students review photo stories that explore the challenges that Black Americans, Native Americans, and immigrants face in the United States.
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Identity in the Time of COVID-19
Reflecting on how identity and community change in the face of crises such as COVID-19, and the role of media in these changes.
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Students analyze news stories on the COVID-19 pandemic and practice photojournalism skills to compose photo stories on the impacts of the pandemic and elections in their communities
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Students will learn about what a journalist does, how to write interview questions, and how to conduct an interview. Students will then share the highlights of their interview. Students can write an...
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Pandemic: A Child’s Perspective
Students will build upon their literacy skills by analyzing underreported stories. They will conduct interviews with children around the world of similar ages about their experiences during the...
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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.
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Students will create a descriptive statistics data visualization to go with a chosen under-reported story about the impacts of the coronavirus pandemic. They will reflect on their graphic...
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Sickle Cell Disease and Health Justice
Students use journalism sources to understand sickle cell disease, identify injustices that people with sickle cell face, and create art (poetry and posters) that brings awareness to the disease and...
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