Current events Lesson Plans

In this lesson students brainstorm geographic questions for specific news stories and use an atlas along with National Geographic's MapMachine to help them find answers to these questions. They create "map packages" to accompany and illustrate additional n

In this lesson learners examine current events. In this current events lesson, learners research a current event using various resources.  In this lesson learners participate in a class discussion to evaluate the information they gathered on a particular event. In this lesson learners then discuss the concepts of common good, rights, and civic duty as it pertains to current global issues.

Learners, assessing a sense of world events, issues, and the media's influence on student's attitudes and perceptions about developing nations and issues, participate in a current events scavenger hunt. Emphasis is placed on the Millennium Development Goals and Canada's involvement with other countries. Learners write their reflections on each day's activities in their journals.

This lesson has learners investigate the feelings of Iranian immigrants in California by reading an online article. They write an article on immigrants' thoughts on current events in their home countries.

Students research current events and simulate a newscast of a current news story. They watch the evening news and write a summary of a story of interest, conduct Internet research and complete a worksheet on a current event, and videotape a newsreport of a story.

Students engage in a lesson that is concerned with finding an issue that is in the current events. They conduct research from newspapers and other periodicals in order to find more information. It is used to create a project for class assessment.

In this lesson students take a closer look at world events. In this current events lesson, students discuss the role of the newspaper throughout history. In this lesson students also discern which sources for news are credible and look at international newspapers online. In this lesson students select new stores and complete current event worksheets about them.

Students investigate articles from the daily news and share opinions with their classmates.  In this current events lesson, students view a news program without sound and predict what news is being discussed by analyzing the visuals.  Students read an article from the newspaper and discuss the 5 W's in groups.

Students create a weekly current event podcast. In this podcast lesson, students find current events for the week and write out a script to explain this event. They add in music and sound effects and record their final product. 

Students explore the media's reporting of world events and issues. After identifying countries reported in newspapers, students locate the country on a map. Using the internet and other sources, groups of students search for as many countries in the news as possible. They write a brief summary of each article.