Science
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Objective: to allow students to explore the interplay between China’s politics, environmentalism and Tibetan Buddhism. Lesson length: 50 minutes.
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Lesson Plans
Soil Pollution in China
Essential questions: What is the cost of industrialization and who pays it? How do we determine whether food is safe? How do you balance food security (production) and food safety?
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Lesson Plans
Ocean Health and Overfishing
Standards-aligned lessons to support student learning around overfishing and ocean health.
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Students analyze cholera mapping, identify community health concerns, and create plans for their own publicity campaigns informing community members of current community health concerns.
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Lesson Plans
Conflicting Opinions on Sanctions in Iran
In the following global affairs lesson plan, students analyze how an author utilizes diverse and conflicting viewpoints to communicate the Iranian perspective of U.S. sanctions.
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Lesson Plans
Obama’s Plan to Feed the World’s Poorest
Students will evaluate President Obama’s Food Plan and discuss/debate whether the initiative will be effective or not.
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Education Resource
Meet the Journalist: Justin Catanoso
On June 18, 2015, Pulitzer Center grantee Justin Catanoso covered the release of Pope Francis's...
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Lesson Plans
Environmental Health: What is it?
This lesson draws from a range of projects on food waste, ocean health, global goods and extractives, food insecurity, water and sanitation and more to support student understanding around...
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Lesson Plans
Stopgap Health Care in the Developing World
Students will learn about the state of health care in developing nations, and to draw conclusions about effective health care from their successes and failures.
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Education Resource
Meet the Journalist: Beth Gardiner
Poland is among the most coal-dependent nations in Europe, and its leaders are the fuel's staunchest...
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Lesson Plans
The Impact of 'Polish Gold'
Students will learn about the effects of burning coal in Poland and apply their analyses of the articles to create a presentation that they feel will best support advocacy for coal regulation.
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Some of the world’s last isolated tribes are poised to make contact with the outside world as...