High School
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Lesson Plans
What's in a Caption? [Worksheet + Discussion]
Students explore photography from diverse global reporting and consider how photo captions can assist viewers in understanding a photojournalism project.
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Discussion and activity ideas for a lesson exploring the re-criminalization of homosexuality in India through portrait photography.
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Lesson Plans
What Is Home?
Students explore ideas of “home” in connection to refugees worldwide and homelessness locally by analyzing images and text from Finding Home and creating their own photo stories that reflect their own...
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Lesson Plans
Global Explorers [Workshop]
Students explore how to seek out under-reported global stories and make local connections to them in this workshop.
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Students learn about elements of narrative nonfiction through reporting on uranium mining in the U.S. They then plan and conduct their own reporting trips and write travelogue essays.
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Students explore how grantee Daniella Zalcman communicates reporting through double-exposure portraits in order to apply image-blending techniques to evaluating content for English, History, Spanish...
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Students will learn about the geography and history of uranium mining on the Colorado Plateau. They will then create their own maps as visual narratives about the topic.
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In this lesson, students read a short text [5-10 minutes] about how exotic pet ownership leads to loss in biodiversity, and respond to writing prompts. Students can be introduced to the subject with...
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Students will learn about how climate change impacts the Arctic Ocean. They will also explore how scientific information is communicated to the public.
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Lesson Plans
Too Young to Wed: The Secret World of Child Brides [Documentary Screening and Discussion]
Stephanie Sinclair's documentary short is an investigation of child marriage and a call to action. In this lesson, students view the film and discuss root causes of child marriage and solutions...
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Lesson Plans
Feature Writing Workshop
This resource outlines tips for feature writing that can be applied to a variety of events. Students in the DC metro area used these tips to reflect on workshops with Pulitzer Center journalists.
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This lesson pools resources on youth movements in 4 countries and asks students to examine: what matters to young people the world over, what matters to you, and how do you fit into a global picture?