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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What the Fact?! Teaching Guide
This teaching guide supports in-depth engagement with Dr. Seema Yasmin's new book about media literacy, which explains how misinformation spreads, its effects, and what we can do to stop it.
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Students journey through historical points of displacement and dispossession and create a digital museum that identifies tribal communities displaced by The Morrill Act.
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Students analyze how journalist-playwrights communicate true stories through theater, then plan and write their own dramatic scripts about underreported issues, working to center marginalized voices.
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Students explore their authentic identities by connecting to underreported news stories through text analysis, research, discussion, and art making.
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Students analyze a range of texts that examine racial injustice in the United States and then craft an argumentative essay analyzing how racial inequality impacts identity.
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Students analyze reporting from Eastern Europe to evaluate the differences between the authoritarian and representative democracy styles of governments. They explore ways that leaders from both styles...
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The Power of the Personal Story
Students analyze news stories and other nonfiction texts focused on the experiences of individuals who have been forced to migrate throughout the world, and then practice the skills of storytelling...
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Community Care Through Climate Justice
Students apply close reading and analysis skills to examine who is most impacted by climate change, why, and what climate initiatives can be taken to enhance community care and safety. They then...
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Students explore news stories that center statistics, analyze best practices for using surveys to evaluate underreported issues, and ultimately design surveys focused on their interests and concerns.
