
News for Students and
Teacher Resources
Grades 6-12

Classroom features daily news lessons based on PBS NewsHour, full-length video-based lesson plans and opportunities for teachers and students to be published on Classroom Voices
Featured resources
Classroom resources for Black History Month
Find lessons and activities for history, English, art and more
Lesson plan: How to fact-check the "fact" pages on Instagram
Learn to spot identify Instagram "fact" pages that actually spread misinformation
Be Informed. Stay Engaged.
We’ll send you ready-to-go current events lessons each morning.
JOURNALISM IN ACTION
Civic Engagement and Primary Sources Through Key Moments in History
The Journalism in Action website allows students to investigate the role journalism has played in U.S. history and what it means to have a free press.
Using the Library of Congress' databases, students analyze primary sources ranging from Civil War photographs to broadcasts of the Watergate hearings.


