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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Women and Nonviolent Resistance
This lesson plan uses resources about women around the world leading nonviolent movements to fight against violence and injustice.
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The People Behind the Stories
Students will do a deep dive into the lives of the people whose stories they hear about in the news and will develop a deeper understanding on how one individual can have a global impact.
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In this project, students explore how we are connected with people across the globe and dive deep into one specific item of their choice to research an issue connected to it.
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Exploring Afropunk's Global Influence
Students explore Afropunk as a global social catalyst and consider art and fashion's relationship to identity, culture, and social movements.
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Depicting War: Examining the Conflict in Yemen
Students explore reporting on the Yemeni war and consider: What forms can war take, and how does it affect civilians directly and indirectly? How can journalists report on a conflict well?
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Evaluating Turkey: What Makes a Country “Free”?
Students evaluate the status of freedom in Turkey using Freedom House criteria, and consider how freedom may be defined at home and around the world.
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'Our Democracy' Curricular Materials
Award-winning documentary photographer Andrea Bruce wants Americans to examine what democracy looks like in their local communities and everyday lives. Our Democracy is her 2-year, open study of...
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A project-based unit that engage students in the production of their own citizen journalism for Andrea Bruce's Our Democracy project.
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Engage students in a dialogue about democracy with photojournalist Andrea Bruce and members of a re-entry program in Memphis, Tennessee.
![At left, 31-year-old Melia attended her first Afropunk event last year in Paris. "It's nice to meet people from everywhere. It's another way to look at Africa." At right, South Africa had its own festival to close out 2017. Image by Melissa Bunni Elian. South Africa, 2017.](/sites/default/files/styles/510x315/public/afropunk1.jpg.webp?h=9bd577d8&itok=9e-5an67 "At left, 31-year-old Melia attended her first Afropunk event last year in Paris. "It's nice to meet people from everywhere. It's another way to look at Africa." At right, South Africa had its own festival to close out 2017. Image by Melissa Bunni Elian. South Africa, 2017.")
