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Daily News Lesson April 11 2022

Decades after Title IX, young women face tough battles on and off the sports field
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Lesson Plan April 08 2022

Lesson plan: The barriers to reentering society after prison

Discuss the barriers to reentry that returning citizens face after time in jail or prison
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Lesson Plan April 08 2022

Lesson plan: Build a 'media literacy survival kit'

In this media literacy lesson, students design media literacy survival kits to help combat misinformation and conspiracy theories online
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Daily News Lesson April 06 2022

Activity: Watch Ocean Vuong’s take on grief, then write your own poem
Learn about poet Ocean Vuong and write your own poem
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Lesson Plan April 06 2022

Lesson plan: How to fight truth decay through media literacy

In this media literacy lesson, students learn tools for verifying information online and spotting propaganda and conspiracy theories
Rural Texas doctors fuming after being left out in cold on vaccine
Daily News Lesson April 06 2022

Biden proposes expansion of Affordable Care Act — and other news for April 6, 2022
Choose which story is right for your class and discuss using fact-based and open-ended questions
U.N. Security Council's emergency meeting, amid Russia's invasion of Ukraine, in New York City
Daily News Lesson April 05 2022

U.S. Ambassador to the UN Linda Thomas Greenfield on the atrocities uncovered in Ukraine
Learn what the U.S. and other members of the United Nations are doing to try to end the war in Ukraine
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Lesson Plan April 05 2022

Lesson plan: An experiment in misinformation

Discuss how conspiracy theories get started in this experiment in misinformation
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Daily News Lesson April 04 2022

Ancient footprints in New Mexico raise questions about when humans inhabited North America
Hear about a discovery that is changing historical understanding about when people first arrived in the Americas
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Daily News Lesson April 03 2022

China orders millions in Shanghai to shelter in place as COVID cases surge
Find out what China is doing in one of its largest cities to try to stave off a wave of COVID
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