Current Events Lesson Plans for Grades 6-12
Social studies teachers already have enough to do. Tracking down a relevant news story, checking whether it’s appropriate for your grade level, writing discussion questions, and then differentiating it for mixed-ability classes is hours of work before you’ve even thought about assessment. Current Events Hub is building a lesson library, with each lesson differentiated to three different reading levels to give you that time back. Subscribe to get launch updates, early access, and the first free sample lessons when we go live.
Not Just News
Teachable Current Events
Ready-to-Teach Lessons for Social Studies Teachers
Our ready-to-teach current events lesson plans are for Grades 6–12, built around the events and issues that are actually shaping the world your students live in. Every lesson covers a significant global event and connects it to social studies concepts: power, identity, sovereignty, globalization, rights. With our lessons, students aren’t just consuming news: they’re learning to think with it.
ONE LESSON
MULTIPLE LEVELS
Every Current Events Hub lesson comes in three differentiated versions: a simplified reading for Grades 6–8, a mid-level version for Grades 9-10, and a higher-order analysis task for Grades 11–12, IB, and AP students.
Level 1
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Grades 6-8
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CEFR Level B1 and Below
Level 2
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Grades 9-10
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CEFR Level B1-B2
Level 3
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Grades 11-12
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IB/AP
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CEFR Level B2+
Ideal for Universal Design for Learning classrooms! Use all three levels in a single UDL lesson.
Built by a Teacher, for Teachers
Current Events Hub is designed by the same practicing Social Studies teacher and IB Coordinator who brought you the Korczyk’s Class YouTube channel — someone who knows what a real 75-minute class looks like, which topics need careful handling, and how all of the demands of teaching affect the time it takes to plan great lessons. These aren’t generic resources produced at scale. They’re lessons built to the standards of real curriculum planning, with IB, AP, C3, Common Core, GCSE, and Canadian curriculum connections mapped in.
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