Social Studies
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Education Resource
Meet the Journalist: Neil Brandvold
Photojournalist and filmmaker Neil Brandvold and science writer Amy Maxmen report on Konzo, a...
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Lesson Plans
Fractured Lands Children's Book
After reading, discussing, analyzing and synthesizing "Fractured Lands", students will develop a children's book further exploring a character, region or event.
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Taiwan: A Changing Status Quo Exploration Activities
These activities are designed to prepare students to engage with Richard Bernstein’s project "Taiwan: A Changing Status Quo."
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Psychological Effects on Migrant Workers
This lesson covers some of the psychological impacts that affect migrant workers and their families using reporting on Filipino migrant workers and their families by Ana P. Santos.
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Families of Domestic Workers from the Philippines
In this lesson, students evaluate the impact of how an author orders information by analyzing two articles about Filipino women leaving their countries to work as domestic workers in the Middle East.
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The Journey Through Their Eyes
Students look at the journey and struggle that immigrants endure to come to the United States through their perspectives.
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Students explore photographs of Canadian residential schools, composite portraits, and interview excerpts of residential school survivors from Daniella Zalcman's "Signs of Your Identity."
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Lesson Plans
Jewell: Climate Change, Archaeology and the Arctic: Using details to write persuasive letters
Students explore how climate change is affecting the work of archaeologists in the arctic using Eli Kintisch's project "Thawing Arctic Soils: A Tenuous Present and Dangerous Future.”
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This lesson asks students to compare the water crisis facing Flint, Michigan to a water crisis in China. Students use digital resources and practice cooperative learning and writing skills.
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Lesson Plans
Heroes of HIV in the Caribbean
The following lesson plans were designed by Liz Morrison, coordinator of Social Studies for the Parkway School District in St. Louis, as part of the Pulitzer Center's Global Gateway initiative.
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Child Labor
Explore reporting projects related to child labor.
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Lesson Plans
Climate Migration Resources
Teach students about the factors affecting climate migration.