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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Pandemic: A Child’s Perspective
Students will build upon their literacy skills by analyzing underreported stories. They will conduct interviews with children around the world of similar ages about their experiences during the...
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'Reading' the News: Media, Research, and Debate
Students evaluate underreported news stories and other sources to prepare and conduct debates on pressing issues that matter to them.
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Students will create a descriptive statistics data visualization to go with a chosen under-reported story about the impacts of the coronavirus pandemic. They will reflect on their graphic...
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Sickle Cell Disease and Health Justice
Students use journalism sources to understand sickle cell disease, identify injustices that people with sickle cell face, and create art (poetry and posters) that brings awareness to the disease and...
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Writing Personal Narratives in a Political World
Exploring the connection between journalistic writing and personal narrative.
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Unit Overview: Analyzing how illustrations can enhance journalistic coverage, and using art and journalism skills to amplify underreported social justice issues in students' communities. Resources for...
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Students reflect on stories they have seen about migration, and then analyze text and photography from eight short articles about women from different parts of the world who were forced to migrate.
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Students will engage with infographics to analyze and communicate global migration trends, and specifically visualize the experience of women who are migrating.
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![](/sites/default/files/styles/510x315/public/13980989747_e4a0652d09_b.jpg.webp?h=436b82d4&itok=li4emYPs ""Refined (lock)" by Brett Jordan is licensed under CC BY 2.0")
![](/sites/default/files/styles/510x315/public/mm9019_ngs61831s-19_191210_07580.jpg.webp?h=9dd951d5&itok=dZzAQ6Fr "A young camel tugs at Cadar Maxamed's hijab in Xinjiinle, in northern Somaliland. The camel was named Baruud—"tough"—because its mother survived years of drought, unlike most of Cadar's animals. Camels and other livestock are the basis of pastoralists' wealth in the region. Image by Nichole Sobecki/National Geographic.")
