Teacher-Selected Topic

Step-by-Step Guide

Activity

Select a Topic

AllSides and Living Room Conversations can help you find additional topics, as well as provide information and content on topics of your choosing.

• Choose from a list of nearly 100 Living Room Conversation guides and dozens of AllSides topics.
• Explore the AllSides Balanced Newsfeed to find information on current events.
• Search terms on AllSides Balanced Search to quickly and easily see multiple perspectives on topics and issues and aggregate content for students.

Plan Your Lesson

• STUDENT DEBATES: Have students read selected articles to prepare their position on the selected topic and then discuss and debate the issue across differences.
• MEDIA LITERACY & RESEARCH: Talk with students about how to using a variety relevant search terms and keywords to enhance the process of research, as well as how to identify which sources are credible and which should be avoided.
• STUDENT PRESENTATION: Have students explore a selected topic page on AllSides and create a presentation based on their work.
• REVEAL BIAS: Have students look up words in the AllSides Red Blue Translator™ to reveal how different people from across the political spectrum think and feel about the same term or issue.
• DIALOGUE & DISCUSSION: Have your students to participate in a healthy, collaborative conversation with each other or with other students across the country. Students can engage in several ways:
  • Online via Mismatch.org
  • In person using conversation guides from Living Room Conversations
  • Text Dialog via AllSides ConsiderIt
    • Please feel free share your opinions on the ConsiderIt questions or request a new agree/disagree question be posted.
    • Students are encouraged to backup their opinions with research.