Current Issues and Critical Thinking: Informational Text Activities. Morningside Center for Teaching Social Responsibility.
This website contains a large compilation of lesson plans regarding the most current events. These lesson plans incorporate writing, critical thinking, problem solving, and analysis of text. This is an excellent resource for teaching informational text. Each lesson contains links or PDFs of the informational text, including graphs, diagrams, newspaper and magazine articles, advertisements (for instructional purposes), and videos. Lessons include questions, activities, and teacher instructions for implementation of lesson. All lessons can easily be modified to meet your thematic unit, student, or teaching needs. Some lessons address controversial topics, such as gay marriage, the war in Afghanistan, and Palestine/Israel policies, simply because these topics deal with current events. Therefore, teacher discretion is recommended.
