Grades 6-12
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Short current events lessons
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Fun interactive news resources
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Teacher-written lesson plans
Ready-to-go news lessons based on the PBS NewsHour
November 24, 2021
Read and reflect on a poem from an indigenous perspective written in response to Whitman and Hughes
November 23, 2021
Get the latest news for your students from PBS NewsHour Classroom!
November 23, 2021
This Thanksgiving, elevate student voice by teaching them how to listen. Based on StoryCorp's The Great Thanksgiving Listen, students will record an interview with an elder relative and become part of America's great oral history project.
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JOURNALISM IN ACTION:
Civic Engagement and Primary Sources Through Key Moments in History
Journalism in Action is an interactive website by PBS NewsHour that explores U.S. history using newspaper articles, political cartoons and radio and TV broadcasts from the Library of Congress.
