Curriculum Guides

To better understand the individuals who held the office and their presidential leadership, The Washington Post created Presidential, a podcast series of 44 segments. Post NIE activities are provided to focus on the presidents’ background and influences on them, approaches to tough decisions and unexpected challenges, and personal traits that helped or hurt their success as president of the United States.

Buying, renting, looking for a fixer-upper, or remodeling — The Post's Real Estate supplement and online Where We Live provide current information to help your students learn the process and complexities. Activities for students of business, economics and personal finance provide understanding of markets, maintaining one’s biggest investment and capturing the character of one's community.

Within the marketplace of ideas, students’ voices emerged asking for gun reform after 17 students and faculty were killed in Parkland, Fla. They joined the many parents and survivors shouting, “Enough! No more.” This guide provides data, the stories of individuals who were killed or injured by guns, commentary and points of view about gun reform. Student activities include creating info graphics, researching school weapons policies and use of First Amendment guarantees to address the Second Amendment.

Vietnam, Daniel Ellsberg, The Pentagon Papers, and a Supreme Court decision. When 1971 began, Washington Post owner and publisher Katharine Graham was a widow and mother of four who was finding her way in the world of men. It was her decision to publish the Pentagon Papers after the Nixon administration had filed an injunction to stop The New York Times from continuing publication. In Steve Spielberg’s The Post she and the newspaper gain their voice and the First Amendment is affirmed. This guide provides resources to introduce and discuss the era and the movie.