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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Lesson Plan: Understanding the Zika Virus
This Zika Virus-focused lesson plan for English teachers, history teachers, humanities teachers and science teachers, uses journalist-grantee Laura Bassett's article "The Zika Virus Could Force Women...
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Psychological Effects on Migrant Workers
This lesson covers some of the psychological impacts that affect migrant workers and their families using reporting on Filipino migrant workers and their families by Ana P. Santos.
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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.
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Facing Risk: Journalists and their Families
This lesson, designed for journalists and journalism students, uses the film "Facing Risk" to guide a conversation about the impact of reporting dangerous stories on journalists and their families.
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The Journey Through Their Eyes
Students look at the journey and struggle that immigrants endure to come to the United States through their perspectives.
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To End AIDS: Addressing Community Needs
Students develop solutions for challenges in HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment. Students will conduct in-depth research on their issues, create proposals, and present them.
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Students explore photographs of Canadian residential schools, composite portraits, and interview excerpts of residential school survivors from Daniella Zalcman's "Signs of Your Identity."
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Jewell: Climate Change, Archaeology and the Arctic: Using details to write persuasive letters
Students explore how climate change is affecting the work of archaeologists in the arctic using Eli Kintisch's project "Thawing Arctic Soils: A Tenuous Present and Dangerous Future.”
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This lesson asks students to compare the water crisis facing Flint, Michigan to a water crisis in China. Students use digital resources and practice cooperative learning and writing skills.
