High School
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Lesson Plans
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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Lesson Plans
Visualizing Colonialism's Impact on Deforestation
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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Using Pulitzer Center Reporting to Examine the SDGs
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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Understanding the Humanitarian Crisis in Afghanistan
Students will examine short videos from PBS NewsHour to understand factors that led to the humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan.
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The 1619 Project Resources for Afterschool Education
Explore resources and opportunities for sharing 'The 1619 Project' in afterschool education spaces.
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‘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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A lesson from the Buffalo Public Schools Office of Culturally and Linguistically Responsive Initiatives, where students explore the historical connections between slavery and mass incarceration in...
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Lesson Plans
Displacement in the Face of Climate Change
Students analyze how climate change affects migration around the world, make local connections to global climate migration stories, and summarize learning through one-pagers and persuasive letters.
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This unit connects global stories of migration with an investigation into local Newark history in order to build a digital archive celebrating migration’s impact on Newark and student’s own lives.
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Students analyze news articles on the choices and challenges that migrants face, and use rhetorical appeals to create Public Service Announcements that reflect those choices and challenges.
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Students build bridges of empathy, affinity, and understanding by exploring underreported stories and using persona poetry to amplify those stories, as well as stories of their own community members.
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Students evaluate news stories about migration to Europe or North America from countries in Africa, and use details to create a fictional Google Earth story about the experiences of a young migrant.