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In this lesson we will look at three reporting projects: violence in Honduras; violence in Guatemala; and the abduction of students in Iguala, Guerrero, Mexico.

Amanda Ottaway
Pulitzer Center Alum

This lesson uses reporting by Sarah Weiser and others to examine how population pressures have been dealt with in various regions.

Objective: Use viewing skills and strategies to interpret visual media.

Tracy Crowley
Guest Contributor

In this lesson, students explore the causes and consequences of the fragile water and sanitation infrastructure in Nepal.

Amanda Ottaway
Pulitzer Center Alum

After a series of chats with Pulitzer Center journalists, students reflect on the experience in a creative yet relevant form of writing by producing a blog post.

This global affairs lesson plan asks students to watch a short video and read a newspaper article to learn about the Rana Plaza factory collapse, and then compare it to historical industrial trends.

Students will read articles and watch videos as preparation to an empathy-building exercise that will help them understand why people choose to leave their families to seek out employment overseas.

Objective: Examine current events in Cuba, now that the US and Cuba have restored diplomatic ties. Essential Question: Is Cuba in the midst of positive change, negative change, or stagnation?

Objective: To introduce journalism students to the concept of convergence. Essential Question: Why does convergence journalism make a story more powerful?

This lesson will help students apply knowledge of language to understand how it functions in different cultures and contexts.

This lesson will give students a close-up view of a successful program dedicated to an aspect of global public health abroad.

"Russia's Rustbelt": The decline of Monotowns. Standards: CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RH.11-12.9 Integrate information from diverse sources, both primary and secondary, into a coherent understanding of an idea...