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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Students explore the effects of climate change on the identities, homes, and livelihoods of communities living in the Great Lakes region.
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Lesson Plans
Printable Lessons for Students
As schools across the world consider remote learning options, Pulitzer Center is committed to supporting educators with engaging resources that are online and easily printable.
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Students explore reporting about four Black Americans' decisions to 'repatriate' to Ghana, analyze their motivations, and make connections between Black History figures and current events.
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Lesson Plans
The Weekly: Analyzing the Impacts of Chronic Disease
Students learn about sickle cell disease and the first teen to undergo an experimental new treatment, while also exploring issues of chronic illness and access to medical care more broadly.
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Students explore reporting on civil asset forfeiture (the seizure of property police believe is connected to a crime), evaluate perspectives on "policing for profit," and make local connections.
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Students explore reporting on Indigenous youth activism in the Amazon, analyze the causes of plastic pollution, and consider how they can make a difference in reducing waste in their own communities.
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1. Warm-up reflection: where does your food come from, and what happens to the waste it creates? 2. Introducing the lesson: exploring the Amazon river and the Indigenous youth defending its...
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1. Warm-up reflection: where does your food come from, and what happens to the waste it creates? 2. Introducing the lesson: exploring the Amazon river and the Indigenous youth defending its...
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Lesson Plans
Using Oral History in Reporting
Students learn about the techniques and value of oral history by looking at examples used in reporting, and developing their own projects by connecting historical events to their own community.
