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October 10, 2015 | All Grades
"Voices from Haiti" Using Poetry to Speak up for a Cause
This Common Core-aligned lesson helps students explore the Haitian experience through poetry, photography, and music.
Classroom Subjects
Arts and Literature
September 29, 2015 | Middle School, High School
Power Lunch: India's Mid-day Meal Program
How do content and form work together in telling a story in the news? This unit/lesson builds on thinking routines developed by Project Zero at Harvard University.
September 23, 2015 | All Grades
The Journey North: Exploring reasons behind migration to the U.S. from Mexico, Honduras, and Guatemala
In this lesson we will look at three reporting projects: violence in Honduras; violence in Guatemala; and the abduction of students in Iguala, Guerrero, Mexico.
September 17, 2015 | High School
Lesson Plan: Citizenship Through Photography in Your Neighborhood
A high school civics lesson that uses photography as a tool for neighborhood improvement.
September 13, 2015 | Middle School, High School
Cancer Alley
Student will discuss the difference between essential facts, secondary facts, and emotive statements.
September 12, 2015 | All Grades
Language and Nationalism
This lesson will help students apply knowledge of language to understand how it functions in different cultures and contexts.
September 11, 2015 | All Grades
School Lunches
Students outline a typical lunchroom at their school - drawings preferably - and predict what a lunchroom in another country might look like.
September 11, 2015 | All Grades
The Power of Free School Lunch in India
Students will analyze how important school lunches have become in India.
August 30, 2015 | Middle School, High School, College
Structuring Reporting on War Crimes in Sri Lanka
Students will analyze how authors order ideas and emphasize details to report on a global conflict. They will reflect on injustices they have witnessed and write their own reports on local conflicts.
August 16, 2015 | Middle School, High School
Making a Movement
Students will (1) discuss the advantages and disadvantages of using social media and other forms of communication to bolster a movement and (2) create and present a text that promotes an issue.
August 11, 2015 | All Grades
A Free Meal: India's School Lunch Program
India's midday meal program is the largest free lunch school program in the world. Through animation, radio reports and articles, students discover the successes and failures of the program.