Social Studies
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After examining how women across the globe are overcoming gender inequality amplified by the pandemic through advocacy and financial empowerment, students promote opportunities to invest in micro...
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Students evaluate educational budget priorities in the wake of COVID-19 by exploring underreported pandemic stories advocating for initiatives that prioritize mental health support for students.
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Students explore the effects of climate change, the impact of global youth climate advocacy, and then craft a persuasive letter or art piece encouraging local and national officials to take action on...
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Students learn about disenfranchisement and the fight for voting rights from Reconstruction to the present. They then compose an underreported story about a person fighting for democracy locally.
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Lesson Plans
Making History
Students evaluate reporting on several underreported issues, and analyze the role of underreported stories in documenting history in order to create a presentation on a topic they think future...
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Lesson Plans
Images from the Past, Images from the Present: Black Excellence, Resistance, and Joy Yesterday and Today
Students explore underreported stories of Black excellence, resistance, and joy past and present and use images, text, and interviews to create collages that form a class museum of Black joy.
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This unit makes space for students to discern local/global sources of hope and pride. Using visual storytelling and interview skills, students make storyboards highlighting people who inspire them.
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Lesson Plans
Shattering Broken Mirrors and Windows: Exploring Youth Liberation Counter-stories Through Photojournalism
Students analyze techniques that photojournalists use to communicate underreported stories, explore reporting about youth activists across the U.S. and the world, and then create photo stories about...
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Students analyze texts and art on the theme of humanity. They explore stories about Ethiopia's civil war and the experiences of Rohingya refugees, and create poems and art in response to the stories.
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Students discover the range of global events that spur human migration and then explore one migration narrative by crafting a book cover that captures their journey.
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Vaccine Hesitancy and Historical Trauma
Students will examine and discuss reporting about vaccination efforts in Ghana and Chicago to better understand the relationship between medical racism and vaccine hesitancy among people of color.
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Examining Challenges to Reproductive Freedom
Students will build their knowledge of the challenges people face when trying to access abortions. They will then use research, writing, and media literacy skills to make local and global connections.