Social Studies
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Lesson Plans
Syria's Children
This lesson introduces students to the Pulitzer Center e-book "Flight From Syria: Refugee Stories." Students examine and discuss the Syrian refugee crisis and its effect on children.
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Meet the Journalists: Jon Cohen and Malcolm Linton
Journalist Jon Cohen and photographer Malcolm Linton have traveled to approximately 50 countries to...
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Meet the Journalists: Pierre Kattar and Rajneesh Bhandari
What do you do when an earthquake completely dates a story you've been working on for months...
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Meet the Journalist: Richard Bernstein in Taiwan
This video was shot on July 23, 2015, outside the Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall in Taipei, Taiwan...
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Lesson Plans
School Lunch Around the World
In this lesson, students will explore controversy about India's midday meal program and consider how school lunches around the world compare to their own experiences.
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Lesson Plans
Museum of Current Crises
This lesson plan outlines a project that allows students the opportunity to connect with a contemporary crisis somewhere in the world.
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This Common Core-aligned lesson helps students explore the Haitian experience through poetry, photography, and music.
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Lesson Plan for Child Migration
Middle and High School educators are invited to use the lesson plan linked here to teach students...
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Meet the Journalists: Brent Renaud and Craig Renaud
Between Borders: America's Migrant Crisis follows the journey of young migrants from Honduras, as...
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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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Project
Ghana: Walking Without Shoes
What happens when we're told to "walk a mile in his shoes" but the child has no shoes? In Ghana this...
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Lesson Plans
Power Lunch: India's Mid-day Meal Program
How do content and form work together in telling a story in the news? This unit/lesson builds on thinking routines developed by Project Zero at Harvard University.