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Lesson Plans
World Religions, Science, and Beliefs
This unit asks middle school students to explore the varying roles beliefs play in people's lives through the lenses of world religions, science, and social relationships.
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Students will discuss how they use water, predict the impacts of a reduced groundwater supply, investigate articles and video, and create advocacy campaigns in support of groundwater regulations.
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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
Climate, Land Rights, and Water Lesson Plans
These lessons present close reading, writing, discussion and hands-on activities that explore reporting on climate change, land rights debates and water issues.
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Education Resource
Meet the Journalist: Peg Tyre
Pulitzer Center grantee Peg Tyre reported from informal settlements around Nairobi and visited...
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Education Resource
Meet the Journalist: Rebecca Hersher
Pulitzer Center grantee Rebecca Hersher traveled to Haiti to investigate what went wrong with a...
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In “ Fight for Falluja”—the virtual reality piece accompanying The New York Times Magazine ’s landmark project “Fractured Lands,”—Pulitzer Prize-winning video journalist Ben C. Solomon gives viewers a...
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In this land rights and multimedia lesson plan for English teachers, history teachers, humanities teachers, media teachers and science teachers, students explore Fatal Extraction, a multi-media...
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This Common Core standards-aligned for English teachers, science teachers, history teachers and journalism teachers asks students to assess how journalists integrate diverse media and structure text...
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Lesson Plans
Thinking Like a Journalist
Consider the following as your watch the video attached: What is the Out of Eden Walk? What is slow journalism and how is Paul Salopek using it as part of this project?
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Lesson Plans
Lesson Plan: Visualizing the Drones Debate
The following global affairs and visual arts lesson plan for history, English, media and visual arts teachers asks students to examine details from photojournalist Tomas van Houtryve's drone...
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Lesson Plans
Facing Risk: Journalists and their Families
This lesson plan was designed for journalists and journalism students. The lesson uses the film "Facing Risk" by Pulitzer Center's Associate Producer Evey Wilson to guide a conversation about the...