Social Studies
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Lesson Plans
Exploring Other Countries
In this lesson, students use the Pulitzer Center website to research a specific country before giving an oral presentation.
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Lesson Plans
Child Soldiers: Surviving Boko Haram
This lesson introduces students to the individual experiences of child soldiers as well as larger issues like the impact of war on children through reporting on Boko Haram.
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This plan includes lessons connected to the work of journalists that presented at the University of Chicago Summer Teacher Institute in June 2017.
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Lesson Plans
Women Learning and Practicing Law in Saudi Arabia
Students learn about the emerging cohort of women lawyers in Saudi Arabia and explore the history, culture, and politics of Saudi Arabia to understand the situation for women lawyers and law students.
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Lesson Plans
The World's Most Toxic Town
Use reporting on Zambia’s lead mines by Damian Carrington and Larry C. Price to explore the causes, effects and responses to toxic lead poisoning.
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Lesson Plans
Planning Like a Journalist
In this lesson, students learn about the experience of international reporting from Iona Craig’s work in Yemen and her reflections on the reporting process.
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Many Philippine roads are death traps. Why are they so deadly? And what can be done to make them...
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This group of lessons explores the interplay between religion and power. Students evaluate the degree to which religious forces impact the strength of a country's democratic institutions.
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Lesson Plans
Sectarian Tensions and Their Impacts
Students analyze why religions have internal conflicts and discuss whether these conflicts are truly religious in nature.
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Lesson Plans
Examining the 2017 French Election
Students use journalist Sarah Wildman’s analysis on the 2017 French election to discuss and write about differing perspectives on the final two presidential candidates.
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Lesson Plans
The Country a U.S. Corporation Left Behind
Students explore the impacts of the century-long relationship between Alcoa, an American corporation, and Suriname. They then debate the terms of Alcoa's exit from the country.
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Education Resource
Meet the Journalist: Elliott Woods
Bozeman, Montana-based journalist Elliott Woods discusses his project in the Central African...