The News & Media Literacy
1. Determining whether online news can be trusted
2. Staying informed
3. Big picture
2. Staying informed
3. Big picture
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- Amnesty International
- CIA World Fact Book (comprehensive information about the world's countries)
- Civicus Monitor (ranks countries with respect to openness, freedom of association, etc.)
- Classroom country profiles
- Climate Central
- Climate Change in Seven Charts (BBC)
- The Conversation
- Current events in historical perspective (Ohio State U.)
- Development Education
- Exodus (video about immigration)
- Exodus: The journey continues
- Exploring freedom on the map (Internet freedom, "global freedom," and democracy) shown on an interactive map (Freedom House)
- Food insecurity in the world (visual) (FAO)
- Fossil fuels: Years left
- Freedom House
- Freedom in the world (map - ranking of countries on 100-point scale measuring civil liberties and political rights) (Freedom House)
- G Zero World
- Globalchange.gov
- Global Climate Change (NASA)
- Global climate migration (first of series of three articles)
- Global living conditions, a short history of (Our World in Data)
- Global Fire Dashboard (Greenpeace)
- Government, Types of (Council of Foreign Relations)
- Human Development Index (complex index created by UN's Development Programme measures a mix of factors such as years of education, gender equality, homicide rate, percapita income, and life expectancy)
- Human Rights Watch
- InfoMigrants
- International Rescue Committee
- Invisible made visible, a video on the pervasive emission of (invisible) carbon dioxide
- Media bias: Allsides, Media Bias Fact Check
- Middle East and North Africa (World Bank)
- NASA Climate Kids
- National Geography Resource Library
- News Literacy Project
- News Literacy Resources for Classrooms (long list, excellent resources)
- Newspapers in education
- Nongovernmental organizations (list of 100 NGOs)
- Our World in Data
- Parents Guide to Twitter
- Refugees and Asylum Seekers: What is the difference?
- ReliefWeb
- Refugee system, how it works
- Universal Declaration of Human Rights
- UN High Commission for Refugees
- UN Refugee Agency
- US Immigrants, key findings
- Visual Capitalist (infographics)
- What are rights? (analysis of the types of rights -- civil, human, natural, etc.)
- World 101
- World Economic Forum
- World Food Program (UN)
- World health risks (WHO)
- WorldMapper (visual representations of current trends
- World Migration Report 2020 (UN IOM)
- Youth for Human Rights
- Overview of news sources for young people
- BBC Reality Check
- Behind the News (short videos for HS students produced by ABC, Australia's news service)
- CBC Kids News
- CNN 10
- CNN VR (virtual reality videos)
- Coda (alternative journalism)
- DogoNews
- Facing History and Ourselves (Current Events)
- Fareed Zakaria's columns
- Google News (aggregates many newspapers)
- HuffPost Teen
- International News Stories (Pulitzer Center)
- KidsPost (Washington Post)
- National Geographic Kids
- NBC News Learn
- New York Times Video
- New York Times 360 (virtual reality)
- New York Times Learning Network
- New York Times Global Issues
- News Decoder
- Newsela (sign in with school account)
- News in levels (same article at different reading levels)
- PBS News Hour Extra
- TeenTribune
- Today's front pages (Newseum)
- Voice of America
- Vox
- The World (PRI) (also a podcast and radio show)
- Youngzine