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 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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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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Students analyze how advances in artificial intelligence affect the health of First Amendment rights in an increasingly digital world.
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The Journey: My Family and How They Got Here
Students analyze a series of first person narratives of immigrants and migrants and then capture stories of migration from their own family in short documentary films.
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Students explore reporting about the lived experiences of BIPOC and historically marginalized people, eventually designing children’s books that tell their own important and underrepresented story.
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Students engage with the question, “How does my community relate to the larger global community in the problems that they face?”
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Harmfully Relevant History
Students explore how events from the past influence the present, how rhetoric can be used to inspire empathy, and how journalism/media can be used as a tool for justice and reform.
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What Is the Cycle of War and Peace?
Students engage with underreported news stories, excerpts from books that explore the theme of conflict and peace, and local stories to create a project exploring cycles of conflict and peace.
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Students examine how the 2022 World Cup has highlighted Qatar's history of labor exploitation and make connections between the sporting event and global issues of workers' rights and climate migration...
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