Lesson Plan: Lessons From Columbine About School Shootings and Media Misinformation
Grades 9-12
Twelve students, a teacher and two gunmen died in a massacre at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colo., in 1999, an episode that continues to shape how Americans view mass shootings at schools. Initial news coverage portrayed the perpetrators as alienated students obsessed with carrying out a revenge fantasy against bullies. Those early profiles soon proved incomplete. More than two decades after the massacre, Americans continue to struggle to understand the cause of school shootings, but answers are elusive.
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