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 make connections between history 600 years ago and present problems confronting South American Countries such as Brazil and Peru.
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Language and Nationalism
This lesson will help students apply knowledge of language to understand how it functions in different cultures and contexts.
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Eva Nepal: Improving the World on a Small Scale
This lesson will give students a close-up view of a successful program dedicated to an aspect of global public health abroad.
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Russia’s Rustbelt: The Decline of Monotowns
"Russia's Rustbelt": The decline of Monotowns. Standards: CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RH.11-12.9 Integrate information from diverse sources, both primary and secondary, into a coherent understanding of an idea...
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Swimming and Water Safety
Students will learn about the importance of water safety and collect class data on swimming involvement.
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Language Matters!
Various standards-aligned lessons to support student learning around the importance of language diversity.
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Soil Pollution in China
Essential questions: What is the cost of industrialization and who pays it? How do we determine whether food is safe? How do you balance food security (production) and food safety?
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Ocean Health and Overfishing
Standards-aligned lessons to support student learning around overfishing and ocean health.
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School Lunches
Students outline a typical lunchroom at their school - drawings preferably - and predict what a lunchroom in another country might look like.
