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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
FILE PHOTO: Illustration picture of Tiktok with U.S. and Chinese flags
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
FILE PHOTO: COVID-19 outbreak in Shanghai
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
Service members of pro-Russian troops look on as they ride an armoured vehicle during fighting in Ukraine-Russia conflict in the city of Mariupol
Daily News Lesson April 01 2022

Russia shifts focus to Ukraine’s south amid stiff resistance — and other news for April 1, 2022
Choose which story is right for your class and discuss using fact-based and open-ended questions
A "We Deserve Justice" button is seen as people protest the recent killings of three trans women, Muhlaysia Booker, Claire Legato, and Michelle Washington during a rally at Washington Square Park in New York
Daily News Lesson April 01 2022

Transgender community marks day of visibility as state laws target LGBTQ youth
Discuss what trans youth in the United States are facing as new laws are passed state to state
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