Middle School
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Lesson Plans
Visualizing Climate Change
Activities encouraging students to create and evaluate visual representations of climate change in order to interpret and share environmental knowledge effectively.
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What could you and your students do to fight climate change? This resource outlines letter-writing campaigns, research projects and school-wide event ideas for students.
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Find all the context you need to teach "Losing Earth," including historical timelines and original transcripts from Senate hearings on climate change.
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Lesson Plans
Skype a Journalist into Your Classroom
Want a journalist to speak with your class about their environmental reporting? Our grantees have expertise ranging from ocean health to pollution. Learn more about how to schedule a free visit.
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Students explore text and photos (including Instagram stories) about a school for girls in rural India in order to spark conversation about access to education and feminism in their communities.
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Lesson Plans
What's in a Caption? [Worksheet + Discussion]
Students explore photography from diverse global reporting and consider how photo captions can assist viewers in understanding a photojournalism project.
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Discussion and activity ideas for a lesson exploring the re-criminalization of homosexuality in India through portrait photography.
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Lesson Plans
What Is Home?
Students explore ideas of “home” in connection to refugees worldwide and homelessness locally by analyzing images and text from Finding Home and creating their own photo stories that reflect their own...
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Lesson Plans
Global Explorers [Workshop]
Students explore how to seek out under-reported global stories and make local connections to them in this workshop.
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Students will explore literary journalism by learning about what life is like for children who live in and got to school at Kakuma refugee camp.
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In this lesson, students read a short text [5-10 minutes] about how exotic pet ownership leads to loss in biodiversity, and respond to writing prompts. Students can be introduced to the subject with...
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Students will learn about how climate change impacts the Arctic Ocean. They will also explore how scientific information is communicated to the public.