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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"The Living Century" from The New York Times Magazine: Underreported stories of medical progress
Students examine factors, many of which have been underreported, that have led to the doubling of human life expectancy over the past century.
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Reach out to the Pulitzer Center education team to connect your students with an award-winning journalist who can demystify a wide range of public health issues.
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Students will analyze reporting on climate change and its varying impacts on people and communities. Using diverse mediums of reporting, students will draw personal connections from global reporting.
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Viewing Guide for Entangled
Students evaluate how efforts to save the North Atlantic right whales are affecting various communities and organizations in a feature-length documentary.
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This lesson examines reporting from journalist Zahra Ahmad and encourages students to investigate their cultural traditions after considering Ahmad's reporting on her experiences as an Iraqi-American.
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Teaching Guide: If God Is a Virus (Poems)
Reading guides and activities for a book of documentary poetry that interrogates the worlds of journalism, medicine, international aid, their ethics, and their intersections.
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Reproductive health, at home and abroad
Students will analyze global reporting on reproductive health and make local connections to those same issues at home.
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Students analyze a discussion with public health experts on life expectancy in the face of COVID-19.
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"Navajo Times":The People's Newspaper
In this lesson, students consider principles of local reporting by analyzing a documentary about a newspaper serving the Navajo Nation. Students also practice their own reporting skills.
![Pooyan Tabatabei presents "Walking on a Blade," a photojournalism project documenting the impacts of COVID-19 on Iran's marginalized communities. Image courtesy of the Center for East Asian Studies at the University of Chicago. United States/Canada, 2020.](/sites/default/files/styles/510x315/public/pooyan_presents.jpg.webp?h=13c444e7&itok=yKtOXKTR "Pooyan Tabatabei presents "Walking on a Blade," a photojournalism project documenting the impacts of COVID-19 on Iran's marginalized communities. Image courtesy of the Center for East Asian Studies at the University of Chicago. United States/Canada, 2020.")
