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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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 are invited to make their voices heard this election season by writing a letter to a decisionmaker that explains the global issue they want to see prioritized. Deadline: November 14, 2025.
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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 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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Investigating Issues in Local Communities
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.
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The Complexities of Global Healthcare Access
Students explore examples of limited healthcare access in rural America and Nigeria and then consider how a lack of access impacts individuals, families, communities, and countries.
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Students are invited to enter poems written in response to news stories to the Fighting Words Poetry Contest. This workshop guides teachers and students in how to craft a successful entry.
