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“To not have any control over anything, to just be waiting and on the edge of your seat, it’s mind blowing at this point.” Janette’s fiancée, Michael, is detained on Rikers Island. He’s serving time because he failed to check in with his officer, violating his parole for drug possession. Now Michael, and hundreds like…

7. What is your reaction to what you have read in this excerpt? How does it help to better understand the factors creating the global vaccine inequalities you explored in the warm-up activity? What questions do you still have?Note: Those students who would like to learn more might opt to read the entire article and…

Students in U.S. high schools can get free digital access to The New York Times until Sept. 1.If you have not yet brought Women’s History Month into your classroom, this media literacy lesson may provide an opportunity. You can also explore our other lesson plans for Teaching and Learning About Women’s History With The New…

Students in U.S. high schools can get free digital access to The New York Times until Sept. 1, 2021.Lesson OverviewFeatured Article: “Listen to Five of the World’s Newest, Wildest Instruments” by Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim (Please note there is also an option to listen to this article.)A Lego guitar, an electromagnetic piano and a “war tuba”…

6. What is your reaction to the article? Are you surprised that one ship (albeit, a very large one) could disrupt the flow of international trade? What do the events of the past week say about the interconnectedness and precariousness of our global trade system? What questions do you still have about the grounded ship…

6. What are some solutions discussed in the article to make paleontology more widely accessible? Do you have other ideas?7. What are some of the difficulties that more inclusive paleontological networks are facing in establishing and advancing their work?Going FurtherOption 1: React to the Article.Where do you stand in the debate on decolonizing paleontology? What…

Warm UpIn our “What’s Going On in This Graph?” feature, we recently asked students to make observations about “Diversity in Professional Sports.” Spend a few minutes looking closely at this graph, reproduced below — or found here in a larger size.Then ask yourself the questions we pose in this feature every week:You can share your…

Students in U.S. high schools can get free digital access to The New York Times until Sept. 1, 2021.Lesson OverviewFeatured Article: “How Two Lonely Generations Are Helping Each Other Heal” by Richard Schiffman“The pandemic is not just making many of us sick, it is making virtually all of us lonelier, according to a Harvard report…

Students in U.S. high schools can get free digital access to The New York Times until Sept. 1, 2021.Lesson OverviewFeatured Article: “Your Loved Ones, and Eerie Tom Cruise Videos, Reanimate Unease With Deepfakes” by Daniel VictorDeepfakes, videos created with the help of machine-learning techniques to look as if they were real, have been developing for…

For each of the following statements, write whether you strongly agree, agree, disagree or strongly disagree:I feel very comfortable talking about gender identity.I can talk about gender identity using language that I know won’t offend anyone.I feel like conversations about gender often become too political.I wish I knew more about the different ways that people…