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Teach and learn with The Times: Resources for bringing the world into your classroom

Teach and learn with The Times: Resources for bringing the world into your classroom

Highlights

  2. Election 2024 Student Conversation Forum

    Forum 4 | What Is Your Relationship With News?

    Where and how do you get your news? How do you know whether to trust it? How do your sources of information affect your understanding of our world?

     By Jeremy Engle and Katherine Schulten

    Photo by Asa Glassman, 16, a winner of our What High School Is Like in 2023 Contest: She wrote, “Through these illuminated screens, news whips around our school faster than an F1 jet.”
    Photo by Asa Glassman, 16, a winner of our What High School Is Like in 2023 Contest: She wrote, “Through these illuminated screens, news whips around our school faster than an F1 jet.”
    CreditAsa Glassman
    1. Lesson Plans

      Conversations With Journalists: An Invitation for Teenagers

      This fall we’re choosing some teen-friendly Times articles and inviting students to talk to the people who made them. Post your thoughts, ask questions or suggest ideas, and the reporters will reply!

       By The Learning Network

      CreditCésar Debargue
    2. Election 2024 Student Conversation Forum

      Forum 3 | What Issues Matter Most to You? Why?

      What are the local, national and global problems, small or large, that you most want political leaders to address?

       By Michael Gonchar

      Comic by Kolbe Madden, 16, a winner of our Coming of Age in 2022 Contest. She writes: “Over the past two years, I have become more aware of the reality of global warming because I have seen the effects it has on nature. But when I try to have real conversations with kids my age about climate change, it usually makes them feel uncomfortable.”
      Comic by Kolbe Madden, 16, a winner of our Coming of Age in 2022 Contest. She writes: “Over the past two years, I have become more aware of the reality of global warming because I have seen the effects it has on nature. But when I try to have real conversations with kids my age about climate change, it usually makes them feel uncomfortable.”
      CreditKolbe Madden

  1. How Concerned Are You About the Rise in Political Violence in America?

    Bomb threats and attempted assassinations are a growing part of the political landscape. Should that worry us?

     By Natalie Proulx

    Former President Donald J. Trump attributed Sunday’s apparent assassination attempt against him to President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, arguing that the arrested suspect was acting in response to their attacks on him.
    CreditJenna Schoenefeld for The New York Times
    Student Opinion

  2. Weekly Student News Quiz: Presidential Debate, Emmy Awards, Marmosets

    Have you been paying attention to current events recently? See how many of these 10 questions you can get right.

     Compiled by Jeremy Engle

    CreditSaul Martinez for The New York Times
    Student News Quiz

  3. Forum 2 | How Often Do You Have Meaningful Conversations With People Who Don’t Share Your Views?

    More and more of us are living in bubbles with like-minded individuals. What have your experiences in having conversations across divides been?

     By Katherine Schulten and Michael Gonchar

    A photo by Kennedy Conroy, 15, a winner of our 2018 Show Us Your Generation contest. She wrote that when she was first recruited to her high school’s cross-country team as a 13-year-old she was “terrified” to be with people two to four years older. But in the locker room, they bonded.
    CreditKennedy Conroy
    Election 2024 Student Conversation Forum

  4. Forum 1 | How Does Your Identity Inform Your Political Beliefs and Values?

    We invite you to introduce yourself and to think about when you first became aware of having political opinions. What do you think shaped them? Have they changed over time?

     By Katherine Schulten

    Painting by Charlie Ballenger, 13, a winner of our Coming of Age in 2021 contest. He writes that being a teen is “a constant debate between being unique (usually the harder option) and conforming.”
    CreditCharlie Ballenger
    Election 2024 Student Conversation Forum

  5. Our 2024-25 Student Contest Calendar

    Ten challenges that invite teenagers to engage, experiment, reflect and create — via writing, photography, audio, video and more.

     By The Learning Network

    Work from some of the teenage finalists for our 2023-34 “Where We Are” photo essay contest. We’ll be running this challenge again this winter.
    CreditClockwise from top left: Sydney Voorhees; Jaewon Yoon; Hannah Tang; JD Noonan; Jiajia Long; Ruixin Zhang
    Contests

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Resources for Teaching and Learning

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  1. Lessons and Teaching Ideas

    Lesson plans and teaching resources based on Times content

     

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  2. Writing Prompts

    Student Opinion Q’s, Picture Prompts & Current Events Conversation

     

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  3. Quizzes and Vocabulary

    Weekly News Quiz, Word of the Day, Country of the Week and Student Crosswords

     

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  4. Photos, Graphs and Videos

    Film Club, What’s Going On in This Picture? and What’s Going On in This Graph?

     

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  5. Contests

    Student Contests & Our Contest Calendar

     

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Resources by Subject

More in Resources by Subject ›

  1. English Language Arts

    Lesson plans for English language arts from The Learning Network.

     

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  2. Social Studies

    Lesson plans for social studies from The Learning Network.

     

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  3. Science & Math

    Lesson plans for science and math from The Learning Network.

     

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  4. E.L.L. & Arts

    Lesson plans for E.L.L. & arts from The Learning Network.

     

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  5. Current Events

    Lesson plans on current events from The Learning Network.

     

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  1. Picture Prompts

    A Mouse

    Tell us a story, real or made up, that is inspired by this image.

    By The Learning Network

     
  2. Word of the day

    Word of the Day: watershed

    This word has appeared in 168 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year. Can you use it in a sentence?

    By The Learning Network

     
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  8. Picture Prompts

    Talking and Listening

    What do you think this image is communicating?

    By The Learning Network

     
  9. Word of the day

    Word of the Day: denigrate

    This word has appeared in 61 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year. Can you use it in a sentence?

    By The Learning Network

     
  10. Picture Prompts

    Water Bottles

    Did you get a new one to start the school year?

    By The Learning Network

     
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