Middle School
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Students learn to distinguish between breaking news and underreported stories about migration, and consider how perspectives and authorship shape the stories of migration we encounter.
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Lesson Plans
The 1619 Podcast Listening Guide
This resource serves as a guide for listening, analyzing, and responding to episodes of the "1619" podcast. It includes time-stamped sections, guided questions, and extension activities for each...
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Lesson Plans
Comparing and Contrasting Global Migration Policies
Students use news resources to learn about and evaluate migration policies around the world, and to understand how policies affect migrants’ lives.
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Fighting Mortality
Students analyze global trends in mortality, investigate health disparities in Chicago, and leverage international initiatives to promote well-being in their own communities through civic action.
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Students explore cross-cultural solidarity in the context of social justice movements in America by examining a diverse range of historical and contemporary texts and craft reflections through daily...
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Students investigate global and local environmental issues and explore stories that celebrate activists. Then students create posters that highlight environmental issues in Chicago.
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Students will analyze underreported news stories about family migration. After learning the elements of a feature story, they will research and write articles about their own migration histories.
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Students examine historic national inequities in education, racial justice, and climate change and then highlight examples of organizations leveraging the challenge of COVID-19 to solve these...
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In this lesson, students will analyze a short film and consider how its subject uses art to challenge gender norms, then reflect on how they can challenge harmful norms in their own communities.
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Lesson Plans
'Race for the Vaccine' Curricular Resource
Students analyze a documentary film that depicts the vaccine development process, and captures how five teams of scientists raced against time to produce the COVID-19 vaccine.
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Students explore clips from the PBS Series Extra Life to analyze the history and legacy of life-saving medical discoveries that have doubled human life expectancy in the last 100 years.
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Lesson Plans
"The Living Century" from The New York Times Magazine: Underreported stories of medical progress
Students examine factors, many of which have been underreported, that have led to the doubling of human life expectancy over the past century.