Lesson Plan: Lessons From Columbine About School Shootings and Misinformation
Grades 9-12
In 1999, two students killed 12 classmates and a teacher at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colo., before taking their own lives. The massacre reshaped how Americans think about school shootings and how the news media covers them. Early reporting cast the attackers as alienated outcasts seeking revenge on bullies, but that account was later shown to be incomplete and misleading. More than two decades later, Columbine remains a reference point in the national search for explanations, even as the causes of school shootings remain complex and difficult to reduce to a single motive.
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