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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Students will evaluate how communities rely on their ecosystems for survival and climate change's impact on their ability to do so by examining the Meitei people's relationship to Loktak Lake.
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This lesson explores how film is used to tell the stories of young ballerinas in Brazil’s favelas, resulting in art and/or research projects examining resilience.
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Six Tips for Strong Interviews
Students practice skills for preparing and conducting interviews for documentary films.
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Students evaluate how photojournalist Daniella Zalcman communicates interviews with blended photography in order to create their own blended portraits that communicate how their identities are...
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This resource describes methods for producing documentary filmmaking projects with students that make local connections to global issues by outlining the development of the film “Placing Identity.”
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Students evaluate two broadcast stories on the battle for land in the Brazilian Amazon in order to craft arguments about how they think land in the Amazon should be used.
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This lesson offers multimedia resources that emphasize the relevance of treaties with Native nations in the U.S. today, and explore under-reported stories about Indigenous peoples around the world.
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Students will consider the relationship between humans and the natural world through evaluating a podcast, exploring photography, discussion, and writing.
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What should environmental reporting accomplish, and what creative approaches can journalists take to meeting their goal? Students reflect on these questions and plan a reporting project of their own.
![](/sites/default/files/styles/510x315/public/screen_shot_2018-11-16_at_5.18.40_pm.png.webp?h=717d0fcf&itok=1NDWIPhR "Screenshot from the film, "Placing Identity," which was produced by journalism students at R.J. Reynolds High School in Winston-Salem, NC. United States, 2018.")
![](/sites/default/files/styles/510x315/public/screen_shot_2018-05-17_at_3.16.52_pm_0.png.webp?h=ea3dcbea&itok=wLo-4tiL "Students from R.J. Reynolds High School research and plan a segment of the film, "Placing Identity." Screenshot from "Placing Identity." United States, 2018.")
