News for Students and Teacher Resources
6–12 Grade Level
Lesson Plan
For a fun end-of-year activity, students will create an online magazine using Flipboard of their top 10 news stories from 2019 to share with classmates and family members. Continue reading
Lesson Plan
Learn how inventions are solving problems around the world and then have students design their own inventions that help their communities. Continue reading
Video
In this PBS NewsHour lesson, find out why José Andrés, now a Nobel Prize nominee, decided to create an organization focused on providing homemade meals to people in disaster zones. Continue reading
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Use this NewsHour lesson to discuss how President Trump’s tweets serve the “politics of distraction” and how racist language has been used as an intentional device to divide the country throughout U.S. history. Continue reading
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In this NewsHour Extra lesson plan, learn how Americans are struggling to approach opposing political opinions with civility instead of contempt and what can be done to fix the problem. Continue reading
