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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Thinking Like a Journalist
Guide students through the process of investigating images, evaluating captions, and exploring slow journalism.
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Stunting in Uganda
Our group chose to work on stunting because it is one of the major consequences linked to food insecurity.
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This lesson plan features resources highlighting practices related to food waste both in the U.S. and abroad in order to facilitate a discussion about how to address this issue.
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Food Insecurity Project: From Education to Action
How can we turn education into action? How can we market policy to mobilize a community? How can we create sustainable policy that will break the generational cycle of food insecurity?
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Food Insecurity in Africa: A Farming Crisis
The hungriest people in Africa are its farmers. Africa is one of the largest continents in the world and farming is the biggest way to obtain financial means and food.
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DCPS Study Abroad Photography Contest
The following describes a photography contest for students that will be studying abroad this summer as part of the DC Public Schools Global Education department's study abroad program.
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Rearming: Critics vs. Backers
This lesson plan uses current debates surrounding U.S. defense policy to help middle and high school students practice the Common Core Social Studies standards.
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Food Deserts
Our topic under the umbrella of food insecurity is the existence of food deserts in both rural and urban areas within the U.S. and how they compare and/or contrast in their causes and potential...
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This is a painting lesson that combines Pablo Picasso's famous 1937 "Guernica" with current day issues presented by the Pulitzer Center.
