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Students explore news articles and instructional videos to evaluate how they can find and analyze under-reported stories in the news, and in their own communities

Students learning about the coronavirus (COVID-19) explore, analyze, and make connections to how the world has responded to the spread of infectious diseases in the past.

As schools across the world consider remote learning options, Pulitzer Center is committed to supporting educators with engaging resources that are online and easily printable.

In this lesson, students will hear from a journalist who uses writing skills to describe under-reported place, and practice the same skills in original writing.

In this lesson, students will analyze how photojournalists tell under-reported stories using photography and apply tips for doing so themselves from Pulitzer Center-supported journalists.

In this lesson, students read and analyze reporting that investigates the relationship between climate change and migration using both data journalism and wrenching storytelling.

In this lesson, students explore the concept of triage in Missouri's public defender system, and more broadly across the United States.

In this lesson, students consider questions of identity and visibility by analyzing a documentary about an intersex woman from Zimbabwe seeking asylum in the U.S.

This resource includes quotes, key terms/names/historical events, and guiding questions for each of over 30 essays and creative works that compose The 1619 Project.

A partial listing of historical events and terms referenced in The 1619 Project essays to support teachers in curricular integration.

A lesson plan for close reading and guided discussion of Nikole Hannah-Jones' essay, which provides the intellectual framework and introduction for The 1619 Project.

Standards-aligned activities drawing from concepts in the essays, creative texts, photographs, and illustrations to engage students in creative and challenging ways.