The NYT creating lesson plans?

So this weekend I came across some articles in the Times; apparently, they have a column every couple of weeks which creates lesson plans for teachers to teach their students the fundamentals of journalism.

For example, last month there was an article for National Writing Day. This month there were a series of proposed exercises for teachers to conduct in class about things such as when is news news, or issues involving sources, etc.

It was rather interesting seeing what they think aspiring (high school) journalists should be doing to prepare themselves.