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Lesson Plans
Visualizing The Pandemic: An Exploration in Descriptive Statistics and Personal Stories
Students use descriptive statistics to create data visualizations for underreported stories about the impacts COVID-19, then reflect on their graphic journalistically, mathematically, and personally.
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Lesson Plans
Vote and Voice: A Pandemic Photojournalism Series
Students analyze news stories on the COVID-19 pandemic and practice photojournalism skills to compose photo stories on the impacts of the pandemic and elections in their communities.
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Lesson Plans
Identity in the Time of COVID-19
In this lesson for ELA classes, students reflect on how identity and community have been affected by COVID-19, and the role of media in times of crisis.
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Students connect the experiences of meat packing workers to their own experiences of COVID-19 by applying descriptive writing and critical thinking to the creation of video projects.
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This unit focuses on the power of both underreported news stories and poetry to tell a story and get to the emotional core of a justice issue.
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Lesson Plans
Food Justice: Planting the Seeds of Change
Students use varied art and media forms to learn about and raise awareness of food (in)security issues around the world and in their own communities.
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Students analyze reporting on the COVID-19 pandemic and historical research on The Black Death in order to evaluate the purposes and biases of sources, compare and contrast pandemics from two time...
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Unit Overview: Analyzing how illustrations can enhance journalistic coverage, and using art and journalism skills to amplify underreported social justice issues in students' communities. Resources for...
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Students distinguish among prejudice, racism, and systemic racism and analyze their manifestations in their lives, news stories, and the legal system.
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Students analyze photo stories that explore injustices experienced by marginalized groups in the U.S. and develop their own photo stories that highlight injustice in their communities.
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Lesson Plans
Investigating Police Budgets
Students investigate how governments fund policing and how police use their budgets, and communicate facts and personal perspectives on police funding through digital zines.
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Lesson Plans
Evaluating "America's Medical Supply Crisis"
This viewing guide for the documentary "America’s Medical Supply Crisis” leads students in discussion, reflection, and projects that increase public awareness about the PPE shortage in the U.S.