AmeriCorps can be used in a high school classroom to teach students about various issues in their community, state, or region and how they can become involved. One way teachers can introduce the idea of civic engagement to students through AmeriCorps is by having students search for local service opportunities on the AmeriCorps website. Students will use the "Find An Opportunity" option and filter the service projects to their state. Once they've done this, they can look through the projects and identify which opportunities are most interesting or which causes they feel most passionate about. They will select one service project to share with their classmates. While the students might not actually participate in these projects, the process of searching for and sharing the service projects with their classmates will educate the students on the issues facing their local community and help them brainstorm how they can get involved in a way that is realistic for them.

One lesson that this resource offers covers the displacement of people across the world. A complete lesson plan for students in grades 9-12 is available entitled "Populations at Risk: The Problems Facing Internally Displaced Persons Worldwide." The lesson includes a variety of materials to teach students about what it means to be a displaced person, which groups are most likely to be affected by displacement, and what solutions are available for people who have been displaced. This lesson is just one of many available for teachers to teach their students about issues affecting people worldwide.

Lessons can be assigned to students on Newsela. For example, if a teacher wants their students to learn more about a particular global issue or event, they can assign activities for students centering around an article about this issue/event. When assigning the article, Newsela asks the teachers which additional activities they would like to assign for students to complete in addition to reading the article. Teachers can have their students fill out a pre-reading poll, annotate the text, complete post-reading discussion questions, take a quiz, or complete a writing prompt. There is also an option to provide supplemental texts that can help the students learn more about the topic after completing the initial activities.

One lesson that Facing History and Ourselves provides for secondary English teachers is an insightful analysis of Amanda Gorman's "The Hill We Climb" and how it relates to hardships and hope in our country. This mini-lesson asks students to watch Gorman read the poem first, then read the poem independently to identify craft moves and poetic devices. After breaking down the poem for its literary components, the students are asked to identify how Gorman's poem relates to the issues currently facing our country and how those issues affect them. This lesson incorporates both ELA content and current societal issues to help students make connections between the content they are learning in class and the things happening around them in the world.

One lesson that a high school English teacher can conduct using National Geographic Education would be introducing the concept of natural selection, or social Darwinism while reading Lord of the Flies. This concept must be taught in order for students to fully understand the themes of the novel. National Geographic Education provides an article about natural selection, as well as a video breaking it down even further. Teachers can pair this resource with their curriculum-based instruction of the text. This will help students learn more about a concept that they might hear again in science or social studies classes, while simultaneously improving their ability to analyze the novel.