Browse and adapt hundreds of standards-aligned lesson plans for K–12 classrooms. Lessons encourage students to make local connections to global news stories, while strengthening skills such as critical thinking, media literacy, and communication. Click here to send feedback to our team.
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Contextualizing the Crisis in Ukraine
Students analyze reporting on conflict and Russian intervention in Ukraine over the past several years to gain context for the current crisis.
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Students examine the relationship between colonialism, governmental policy, and deforestation in order to evaluate conservation strategies and/or create their own graphic timelines of deforestation.
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Students will explore and discuss the SDGs and Pulitzer Center-supported reporting that connects to all 17 goals. They will then use research, writing, and art skills to engage with the reporting.
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Students will examine short videos from PBS NewsHour to understand factors that led to the humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan.
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Students watch the short documentary "Moving Migrants" and examine the connections between migration, climate change, and gender in Bangladesh.
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Explore resources and opportunities for sharing 'The 1619 Project' in afterschool education spaces.
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In this lesson, students engage with stories about Latinx leaders and organizations on the frontlines of serving their communities before researching and celebrating local Latinx changemakers.
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Lesson Plans
‘I Am Omar’: Exploring Identity and Representation
Students analyze a story about a Muslim scholar from Senegal, who wrote the only surviving autobiography in Arabic by an enslaved person in the United States.
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Students will analyze multimedia reporting and consider questions of Indigenous representation, discrimination, and erasure.