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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Living With Lead Exposure
Reporting on lead exposure inspires students to investigate levels of lead pollution in their own community and public awareness of the longterm exposure risks.
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Plastics, Bioplastics, and Health
Students explore plastics' health impacts, discuss gaps in research, and assess the limitations of alternatives. They brainstorm and present community solutions to reduce plastic pollution locally.
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Students learn about cervical cancer in India as a problem and a system with many causal factors, including those associated with specific cultural and geographic contexts.
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Babies Can’t Wait: Addressing Maternal Matters during War and Conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo
This lesson explores the impact of geography, conflict, and resilience in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) through the lens of healthcare and community support systems by centering a maternity...
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Objects in the Mirror are Closer Than They Appear: The Global Health Threat of International Conflict
Students examine the ways that anti-microbial resistance grows during conflicts around the world. Students imagine approaches to advocate for soldiers to receive testing and treatment and explore how...
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Resource Guides
Resource Guide: What Japan’s Atom Bomb Survivors Have Taught Us About the Dangers of Nuclear War
This resource guide includes lessons, videos, and additional texts to support student engagement with the Retro Report short film, “What Japan’s Atom Bomb Survivors Have Taught Us About the Dangers of...
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A Moment of Connection
Students apply critical thinking and analysis skills to analyze several journalistic texts, evaluate what most connects them to a story, and then apply their analysis to create a photojournalism essay...
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Genetically Modified Organisms
Students engage with reporting about a health issue in Uganda, connect to their personal lives, investigate healthy diet and GMO, and then defend their response to the essential question, "can a...
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Students learn what underreported stories are and why they matter through analysis of health reporting, and then research and write a story they think is underreported in their local community.
