Current Events in the Classroom

Explore classroom resources for making connections between current events and your curriculum, including activities and discussion strategies for high school and middle school students.

Subject

Grade

Language

English — US

Published

August 2, 2019

Updated

May 22, 2022

Overview

About This Collection

Engaging with current events is an essential part of educating young people to be informed and humane participants in society, helping them develop the capacity to examine issues from multiple perspectives and think critically about the world around them.

Our current events collection includes strategies for addressing current events with your students and mini-lessons on topics in the news, which can be adapted to teach in one class period or less.

This collection supports thoughtful classroom conversations about current events. It includes: