Lesson

In this lesson, students will play the role of photo editor to learn how the images they see in The New York Times make their way from the camera to the paper.

A NASA spacecraft successfully smashed into a small asteroid and changed its orbit: Should we all sleep easier at night?

Matika Wilbur is trying to photograph every federally recognized tribe in the United States. In this lesson, students will learn about why she believes that her project is vital to counter centuries of misrepresentation.

In this lesson, students learn about the history of how the nation of Haiti was looted by outside powers, foreign banks and its own leaders almost from its birth.

The death of a young woman has prompted an outpouring of anger across Iran. In this lesson, students will learn about the many factors that have led to this moment.

In this lesson, students will learn how Republican governors are sending migrants to Democratic cities and towns to protest the high number of arrivals at the southern border.

In this lesson, students will learn about Tariq, the 7-year-old TikTok sensation also known as Corn Kid. Then they’ll investigate what makes songs like “It’s Corn” so addictive.

In this lesson, students will learn why the teaching of history is under the microscope and how debates in school board meetings and statehouses across the country have affected social studies teachers.

Why are heat waves becoming hotter and more frequent? In this lesson, students will analyze historical temperature data and create box-and-whisker plots to find out.

In this lesson, students will learn how more than 150,000 people were without safe, reliable drinking water for weeks and how climate change has emerged as a growing threat to water systems across the country.