Controversial or Difficult Current Events in the Classroom

Controversial or Difficult Current Events in the Classroom

Happy New Year!  

Current events in our world can be difficult to address in the classroom, but Books to Help Kids Make Sense of Challenging Current Events shares books by topic to use to help teachers and students gain a better understanding of challenges in our world.  The resource by Morningside Center for Teaching Social Responsiblilty - Teaching About Controversial or Difficult Issues provides ten suggestions to help teachers feel better prepared to tackle these topics. Another resource highlighted in the article Books to Help Kids Make Sense of Challenging Current Events is IndyKids.  IndyKids mission is to engage young people to become informed world citizens through the production of current events and social justice news source that is created by kids, for kids. Journalists for IndyKids range from ages 9-16 and report on a wide range of diverse topics and social justice issues.  With every issue is a teaching guide that has lessons that are supported by CCSS ELA standards such as for the November/December 2015 issue below.

IndyKids November/December Issue #52 and IndyKids Teaching Guide for Issue #52