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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Lesson Plans
Writing Personal Narratives in a Political World
Exploring the connection between journalistic writing and personal narrative.
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Unit Overview: Analyzing how illustrations can enhance journalistic coverage, and using art and journalism skills to amplify underreported social justice issues in students' communities. Resources for...
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Students reflect on stories they have seen about migration, and then analyze text and photography from eight short articles about women from different parts of the world who were forced to migrate.
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Students will engage with infographics to analyze and communicate global migration trends, and specifically visualize the experience of women who are migrating.
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Reach out to the Pulitzer Center education team to connect your students with an award-winning photojournalist.
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This unit focuses on the power of both underreported news stories and poetry to tell a story and get to the emotional core of a justice issue.
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Lesson Plans
Food Justice: Planting the Seeds of Change
Students use varied art and media forms to learn about and raise awareness of food (in)security issues around the world and in their own communities.
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Students distinguish among prejudice, racism, and systemic racism and analyze their manifestations in their lives, news stories, and the legal system.
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Lesson Plans
Investigating Police Budgets
Students investigate how governments fund policing and how police use their budgets, and communicate facts and personal perspectives on police funding through digital zines.