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 explore reporting about the lived experiences of BIPOC and historically marginalized people, eventually designing children’s books that tell their own important and underrepresented story.
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Students engage with the question, “How does my community relate to the larger global community in the problems that they face?”
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Students explore how events from the past influence the present, how rhetoric can be used to inspire empathy, and how journalism/media can be used as a tool for justice and reform.
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Students engage with underreported news stories, excerpts from books that explore the theme of conflict and peace, and local stories to create a project exploring cycles of conflict and peace.
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The D.C. Lottery System
Students analyze the relationship between race, wealth, and educational access by examining the issue of school segregation in global and local contexts.
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Students analyze how communities can leverage local government and community advocacy to address environmental events driven by climate change.
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Concurso de Cartas #NossaAmazônia
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Students produce podcasts that cover local underreported stories after analyzing historical and contemporary issues central to Native American history and culture in the U.S.
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Students examine the relationship between success, opportunity, and environment by analyzing underreported news stories and conducting interviews about the impact of systemic issues in the U.S.
