Science
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Lesson Plans
The impacts of water crises in China and Flint, MI
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
Understanding the Zika Virus
Students are asked to discuss the articles about Zika virus and answer comprehension questions. Students can also engage in extension activities conducting a deeper analysis of Zika media coverage.
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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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Education Resource
Meet the Journalist: Ari Daniel
Three science teams, two glaciers, one reporter. What does melting Arctic ice have to do with...
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Education Resource
Meet the Journalist: Eli Kintisch
The fate of thawing Arctic soils may have profound impacts far from the North pole, as more than a...
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Lesson Plans
The Debate Around Global Health Spending
This lesson introduces students to journalist Rob Tinworth's The Life Equation project. It explores the debate around how data is used to help decide how money for global healthcare is divided up.
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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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Lesson Plans
Lesson Plan: Vanishing Groundwater
This lesson plan examines the effects of rapidly depleting groundwater reserves around the world using photos, video, interactive maps, startling statistics and rich interviews.
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In this global affairs lesson plan, students will explore the article Humanitarian Raid and debate the role that large corporations should play in helping to end poverty.
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Lesson Plans
News Bite 5: Ebola's Legacy
In this lesson, students will learn about the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, the people who worked to slow the epidemic, and the aftermath the disease has wrought upon the region.
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Education Resource
Meet the Journalist: Sam Knight
"Dream of REDD" tells the story of the UN's ambitious project to try and bring forests and...
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Lesson Plans
Air Pollution: A Global Problem
In this lesson, using Pulitzer Center journalism resources, we'll examine air pollution around the world.