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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Climate change—an issue that affects us all, no matter where we are in the world. This guide will help begin a conversation about today's under-reported stories surrounding our global crisis.
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Students explore factors that have led to the struggling dairy industry in the Midwest in order to understand the continual shifting of industrial businesses and how this affects their communities.
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What stories do we see, and which ones do we miss? These stories go beyond the headlines to explore under-reported stories on migration and refugees in the United States and around the world.
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The Ethics of Voluntourism and the Purpose of Travel
Students read solutions journalism that explains the problems with volunteer travel and offers positive alternatives in order to develop their own opinion pieces on the purpose and ethics of travel.
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Home, Community, and Tradition: Ramadan in Refuge
This lesson looks at a story about refugees who are reckoning with religion and identity while during Ramadan and explores concepts of home, community, and tradition.
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Students read and discuss stories featuring children with an incarcerated parent, then take action to find solutions to some of the challenges these children face.
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Poetry Workshop: Writing in Response to Images
Students write ekphrastic poems based on powerful photographs. They explore the stories photos tell, make personal connections to them, and amplify under-represented voices including their own.
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Students create blackout poems to highlight themes explored in texts about the experiences of indigenous communities in North America.
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Fighting Climate Change with Community Action
This lesson introduces students to some of the ways people around the world are fighting climate change in their own communities, and challenges them to take action themselves.
![Cory Bidlingmaier, left, and Robert "Stretch" Hull maneuver calves in a pen during an auction. Image by Mark Hoffman. United States, 2019.](/sites/default/files/styles/510x315/public/calves_in_pen.jpg.webp?h=1c9b88c9&itok=zZkqdsMs "Cory Bidlingmaier, left, and Robert "Stretch" Hull maneuver calves in a pen during an auction. Image by Mark Hoffman. United States, 2019.")
