Teaching with the News: Free Lessons
The Brown University Choices Program creates engaging educational resources and makes innovative scholarship accessible to diverse classrooms. Choices curriculum empowers students to understand the relationship between history and current issues while developing the analytical skills to become thoughtful global citizens. Examples:
- Taking It to the Streets: A Year of Global Protests (Feb 2020)
- Refugee Stories: Mapping a Crisis (Dec 2019)
Global Goals for Sustainable Development: World’s Largest Lesson
The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals provide various interdisciplinary learning opportunities for students. Covering topics such as water and sanitation, education for all, and global health, the 17 goals create a framework for addressing some of our world’s most challenging issues. Check out the World’s Largest Lesson, which provides an overview of the goals including comics and children’s books that engage students in the study of global issues.
Teacher Resources from World Affairs Council Global Classroom
Check out the World Affairs Council Global Classroom online curriculum resource guides on a variety of topics (for free). These resource guides provide a wealth of information for teachers and students (videos, articles, lesson plans, activities, etc.) and will give you different strategies for bringing the world to your students during this time. Here are a few recent ones:
- Empowering Refugee Students: How We Can Help
- Mr. Toilet: The World’s #2 Man
- Crisis, Challenge and Change in the European Union
- 21 Century Global Competence Workshop
Teaching Resources from YES! Magazine
While you are out of your physical classrooms, YES! Magazine offers free YES! For Teachers resources that will keep nudging your students to creatively and critically think and write—and to see today’s challenges and solutions through a justice and equity lens. They are easy to access by topic and by resource type