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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Students explore underreported stories of Black excellence, resistance, and joy past and present and use images, text, and interviews to create collages that form a class museum of Black joy.
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This unit makes space for students to discern local/global sources of hope and pride. Using visual storytelling and interview skills, students make storyboards highlighting people who inspire them.
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Students explore how environmental degradation disproportionately affects marginalized communities, reflect on the sacredness of water, and create art to communicate a message of environmentalism.
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Students analyze techniques that photojournalists use to communicate underreported stories, explore reporting about youth activists across the U.S. and the world, and then create photo stories about...
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Students analyze texts and art on the theme of humanity. They explore stories about Ethiopia's civil war and the experiences of Rohingya refugees, and create poems and art in response to the stories.
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Students discover the range of global events that spur human migration and then explore one migration narrative by crafting a book cover that captures their journey.
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Students explore how visual arts are used globally to amplify marginalized voices, and create block prints uplifting underreported stories. This unit contains supports for multilingual learners.
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Vaccine Hesitancy and Historical Trauma
Students will examine and discuss reporting about vaccination efforts in Ghana and Chicago to better understand the relationship between medical racism and vaccine hesitancy among people of color.
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Examining Challenges to Reproductive Freedom
Students will build their knowledge of the challenges people face when trying to access abortions. They will then use research, writing, and media literacy skills to make local and global connections.
