Social Studies
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Lesson Plans
Getting the Word Out About Food Waste
Students analyze reporting about food waste in D.C. and South Korea. They then create their own media plans on reporting food waste issues in their communities.
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Project
Nicaragua's Transoceanic Canal
Colossal. Mammoth. Pharaonic. Those are the words that describe the Chinese-backed proposal to build...
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Education Resource
Meet the Journalist: Heather Pringle
Heather Pringle discusses her and Andrew Lawler's reporting on the emergence of "isolated tribes" in...
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For at-risk LGBT asylum seekers from former British protectorates, the UK is an ideal and obvious...
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Education Resource
Meet the Journalists: Tik Root, Wyatt Orme and Juan Herrero
Tik Root, Wyatt Orme, and Juan Herrero speak about their project in Rwanda where they explored the...
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Education Resource
Meet the Journalist: Sim Chi Yin
Sim Chi Yin travels to a remote mountainous area in China to report on silicosis, China's leading...
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Education Resource
Meet the Journalist: Bridget Huber
At least 2 billion people worldwide have no access to surgery whatsoever. Pulitzer Center grantee...
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Project
Water Safety in Zanzibar
The WHO estimates over 370,000 lives are lost each year to drowning. And while water is an...
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Some of the world’s last isolated tribes are poised to make contact with the outside world as...
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Lesson Plans
What's the Impact of Finding Oil in Your Backyard?
Students learn about the impact of finding oil in Kenya and apply what they learned to a presentation advocating for, or protesting against, hypothetical drilling for oil in their own communities.
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From the U.S. to India, alarm has long been raised about overpopulation, leading to calls for harsh...
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Education Resource
Meet the Journalist: Cameron Conaway
Cameron Conaway talks about the importance of the Ganges, also called the Ganga and considered a...
