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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![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.](data:image/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D'http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg'%20viewBox%3D'0%200%20510%20315'%2F%3E "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.")
Reach out to the Pulitzer Center education team to connect your students with an award-winning journalist who can demystify reporting on COVID-19 and public health crises around the world.
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Explore how Pulitzer Center can support your classroom in teaching "America's Medical Supply Crisis" and beyond!
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In this lesson, students analyze how journalists use interviews to research and tell under-reported stories. They then apply those tips to planning, conducting, and editing their own interviews.
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Curricular Materials for The 1857 Project
Explore reading guides, a lesson plan, and extension activities for The 1857 Project, a journalism project that chronicles the legacy of racial injustice in and around St. Louis.
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This resource includes quotes, key terms/names/historical events, and guiding questions for many of the 30+ essays and creative works that compose "The 1857 Project."
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Exploring 'The 1857 Project: Extracting the Poison of Racism from America’s Soul' by William H. Freivogel
This lesson plan is designed to introduce William Freivogel’s essay, and The 1857 Project as a whole, through discussion questions and guided reading.
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These activities model ways that students can apply writing, research, discussion, and visual arts skills to explorations of essays written by students for The 1857 Project.
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A Global Pandemic: Comparing, Contrasting, and Connecting to International Responses to COVID-19
In this lesson, students will analyze the challenges facing communities in Kenya and Hong Kong in stopping COVID-19 and compare their responses to other places' around the world.
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In this lesson, students will hear from a journalist who uses writing skills to describe underreported places, and practice the same skills in original writing.
![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.")
![](/sites/default/files/styles/510x315/public/screen_shot_2019-09-24_at_5.40.12_pm.png.webp?h=a0cfc645&itok=Y4MecT_K "Ninth-graders at Whitney Young Magnet High School in Chicago present a completed timeline that compares events in the Middle East to highly publicized news stories in the U.S. over the course of the nearly two decades explored in Scott Anderson's "Fractured Lands." Students in World Studies classes at Whitney Young spent eight weeks processing Anderson's story through discussion and close-reading. Image by Anne-Michele Boyle. Chicago, 2016.")
![](/sites/default/files/styles/510x315/public/interviews-thumbnail.png.webp?h=c673cd1c&itok=P5BlP8TK "Screenshot from the video "Journalist's Toolbox: Interviews," which features an image by Mikey Cordero. Puerto Rico, 2019.")
